MHM established NRDC-IE out of a passion for solving regional economic and environmental injustices and inequities. The organization was developed in collaboration with the University of California’s Center for Economic Development, the Loma Linda University Center for Community Resilience, and prominent leaders in government and social policy.
MHM’s patent-pending e3p3 model for securing grants has notable antecedents and parallels in the business world. The basic Six Sigma e3p3 methodology centers on ideas generated by business experts such as Joseph Juran, Kaoru Ishikawa, and W. Edwards Deming.
The mnemonic for the Six Sigma e3p3 methodology (“e-cube, p-cube”) is “evaluate, evolve, execute, perfect, progress, and preach/practice.” The steps involved begin with defining the problem, managing appropriate inputs and processes, and then executing the plan itself. Then MHM uses the approach to “perfect” the grant concept and model being developed, by ensuring planed impact and targeted performance measures can be accomplished, which leads to increasing successes in grants produced and further progress of the programs, accomplishments, and sustainable.or replicateble performance
Through its iteration of this evidence-based Six Sigma e3p3 methodology, MHM and its e3p3 model wil enhance healthy and sustainable communities, as well as to promote the well-being of community members, particularly blacks andother minority under-resourced parts of the United States.
