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Show QHiIkopTknes September 18. 2003 CFC Supportive management key to pylon team's success by 1st Lt Garret Grochowski and is the largest workplace charity campaign in the coung try. This annual fall fund-raisin- ALC Public Affairs by Ma. Dave Richardson 514th Flight Test Squadron Editor's note: This article is Part ofa series highlighting the improved processes of organizations throughout Hill AFB. The Air Force is encouraging the use oftransformation and lean initiatives to help it achieve and maintain advantage through changes in operational concepts, organizations and technologies. In early July, the Hilltop Times printed an article from the per- Process Improvement rt". or i pylon easier, another team mem- ber suggested modifying an automotive engine stand. This process promotes continuous creativity. The team also makes n frequent trips to Defense and Marketing office before finalizing any design. The team's fully supportive management is key to their success. When the team mentioned spective of the Maintenance Reuti-lizatio- Directorate's Commodity Division pylon improvement team. The team is using lean initiat- ives to repair and modify weapons pylons. The pylon improvement team is backed by a steering com- and resources. The committee also proposes solutions without expecting any particular idea to be adopted. Problem-solvin- g ideas often come from unexpected places that power distribution problems prevented trying different layouts, MA's Resource Management Branch leadership offered immediate support and had new power strips installed. When the team mentioned concerns about paint process choices, leadership offered various solutions and asked the team to make the expressed a need for a rotating stand to make working on a daily processes, workers did not feel they were wasting much mittee that empowers them to do whatever it takes and ready for big year sup-por- ts them fully with time Before spaghetti-mappin- profit organizations. Contributions basewide Oct 20 and run through Nov. 20. Last year, Team Hill's con- tributions totaled $928,065. Nationwide, people donated $237 million, second only to the the sheet metal shop and rerunning the spaghetti diagram, the team reduced walking distance by 80 percent, with a 30 percent reduction of footprint in the ' sheet metal area. The team's lean initiative is an ongoing project, and the team continues to make minor changes as they gather information. The few changes that have been made are already making a difference. Once the team makes a key layout determination, drastic process improvement will quickly follow. Organizations interested in highlighting process improvement team efforts and achieve-ment- g 2003 CFC drive will begin bined Federal Campaign. The effort. Yet after rearranging final decision. and are explored with open minds. When one technician "What makes America great?" is the theme for this year's Com- drive allows nearly 4 million federal employees and service members to contribute to thousands of local and national non- 2001 11 campaign. Hill's CFC goal for 2003 is to reach the $1 million mark. To do this, officials hope to garner a 10 percent increase in participation. "This year we think we can break the $1 million barrier. That's the big push. If we can get the participation up, the dollar amount will follow," said Pam Day, CFC project officer for HilL "Last year, participation was 32.5 percent and we're hoping to raise it to 42.5 percent for this year." CFC is set up to be an efficient, meaningful, appeal to serve the charitable needs of the community. The campaign was established in 1961 post-Sep- t. once-a-ye- s, or that need more information on starting a team, or streamlining processes, can contact Col. Michael "Maq" Maquet at the Transformation Office, Ext. ar Air Force Print News Airmen whose parents speak languages other than English can now order Air Force Parent Pins with accompanying cards translated into one of 100 languages. The new Your Guardians of Freedom initiative is an extension of the Parent-Pi- n program called "E Pluribus Unum." The Latin term comes from the great seal of the United States and means, "out of many, one," said the program's direc- ' n & ij Photo i r tor, Brig. Gen. Edward Tonini. "We try to take a lot of what we do in this program from history," Tonini said. "E pluribus unum comes from our founding fathers. It evokes both the strength that America derives from the diversity of its citizens and the strength that our Air Force derives from the diversity of its airmen." In the first four months of the Parent-Pi- n program, more than 200,000 parents or parental figures received the lapel pins and personalized cards from Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper and Secretary of the Air Force Dr. James G. Roche. Tonini said the idea for E Pluribus Unum came i by Airman 1st Class Micah Garbarino commissary worker checks Donna Patterson's cart before she proceeds to the checkout at the annual case lot sale. Volunteers raised several hundred dollars this weekend for Operation Warm Heart during the sale. They earned tips by helping people take their purchases to their vehicles. Operation WarmHeart proceeds go to help military personnel during times of financial crisis. It is also used around the holidays to provide additional funds and food to airman In need. To donate, or for more information about Operation WarmHeart, contact your unit first sergeant. A multi-lingu- al shortly after the program kicked off in early May. "It started very early on in the program with from a lieutenant colonel in Arizona," an Tonini said. "He thought the program was magnificent but said his father spoke only Spanish, and it would be so much more meaningful to his father to receive the card in Spanish. Over the next few weeks, we got a hundred of those kinds of letters." Even before launching E Pluribus Unum, members of the Your Guardians of Freedom office received more than 1,000 requests for cards in 40 different languages, according to Tonini. About 70 percent of those requests were for Spanish. Office officials teamed with people from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., and other commercial agencies to translate the original card into 100 different languages, Tonini said. The purpose for offering the letter in so many languages is community outreach, according to Tonini. "The Air Force Parent-Pi- n program is designed to acknowledge the parents and parental figures whose support continues to be critical to America's airmen," Tonini said. by Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez WASHINGTON contri-bution- can be made in cash, by check increased 52 percent or by payroll deduction. Individual unit and office pro"We're asking those who have not participated in the CFC ject officers have more inforbefore to consider giving at least mation and will soon be taking $1 a pay period to CFC," Day donations. The CFC Web site said. "We're also asking people is at www.opm.govcfc. "The success of the CFC who give consistently to consider increasing the size of their depends on the participation of contribution if they havent done military personnel and federal so recently." civilians," said Day. "Their supOn average, one in four fedport is what makes the differeral employees, or their family ence." Those who have stories ofhow members, will benefit from the CFC charities this year alone, the CFC has helped out in a time according to CFC officials. of need and made a difference Donors may designate which in their lives, are encouraged charity or charities receive their to send their stories via at Pam Day money by filling out a pledge to card. PamekDayHILLaf.miL Those "This is a great chance to comstories will be used to generate bine our resources. We've all even more support for the CFC. To mark the start of the CFC been given a lot and this is a chance to give back. There's a drive, there will be a kick-of- f charity in there for everybody," luncheon Oct 20 at Club Hill. said Day. For tickets, call Stella Blair, Ext Hill AFB is ranked first among Parent pins now Shopping spree contributors in the state of Utah in both number of givers and in total contribution. 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