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The Team Behind Our Team
CivicMakers has always been about community and bringing people together to apply their expertise toward improving public service. We convene…
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Tool Case Study: Ecosystem Mapping in the Anaheim Workforce Connection
The CivicMakers Team led the inaugural Workforce Transformation Corps cohort, in partnership with Make Fast Studio, Jobs for the Future,…
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Tool Case Study: Interview Strategy at the Workforce Investment Board of Tulare County
The CivicMakers Team led the inaugural Workforce Transformation Corps cohort, in partnership with Make Fast Studio, Jobs for the Future,…
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Tool Case Study: Journey Mapping to Increase a Sense of Belonging
The CivicMakers Team led the inaugural Workforce Transformation Corps cohort, in partnership with Make Fast Studio, Jobs for the Future,…
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Tool Case Study: Stakeholder Identification in LA Workforce Development
The CivicMakers Team led the inaugural Workforce Transformation Corps cohort, in partnership with Make Fast Studio, Jobs for the Future,…
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Leveraging the Power of Apprenticeships
In a continuation of our work with California’s Employment Training Panel (ETP), we recently wrapped up a 10-month design process…
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Coaching Equity-Centered Design Thinking
At the start of June, we kicked off the newest Innovation Team offered by the City of Sunnyvale. This project…
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2023 Year in Review
Every year, the CivicMakers Team takes a look at what projects (both internal and external), people, and partners furthered our…
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Berkeley Public Library: All-Staff Day
Berkeley Public Library’s team hosted a All-Staff Day in September, 2023 that they wanted to be rooted in Human-Centered Design…
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Innovation Showcase: Co-Designing a Future Where People Come First
At the end of January, we had the honor of designing and facilitating a participatory event with our partners…
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CivicMakers Team Strategy Jam
The CivicMakers Team gathered together for what we called a Team Strategy Jam on Monday, June 12th, at our office…
![Team photo outside in a park on sunny day with plants in the background. Seven people stand in a row with their arms around each other. From left to right: Julian Gunter, Judi Brown, Brittany Henry, Eva Mas, Cristelle Blackford, Leah Tremblay-Adams, Kyle Wicks.]()
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Surfacing Insights from State Employees
The CivicMakers Team has been working with a state agency over the past six months to better understand how multiple…
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End of Year Reflection, 2022
It can be difficult to fit time for reflection and learning from our work into the day-to-day of running a…
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CivicMakers’ 2022 Team Retreat
Last week, we brought our team back together for the first CivicMakers retreat in over three years. In addition to…
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2021 Year in Review
The CivicMakers team is committed to continuously reflecting and learning from our work. For the past few years, we’ve tried…
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A resource library for sharing our tools with you
To our community of civic designers–and our community members who don't yet see themselves as designers–we're excited to announce the…
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Our journey to a clarified vision and a new brand
We have a new website and a new logo. Those words feel REALLY good to say out loud! It's been…
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2020 Year in Review
2020 tested the resilience and reliability of human-centered processes. What does it look like when we can’t be together? What…
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2019 Year in Review
2019 brought a number of exciting firsts for CivicMakers. We won our first city-wide strategic planning contract with the City…
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2018 Year in Review
2018 was a rewarding and instructive year for CivicMakers. We worked with close to 20 state and local clients; expanded…
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2017 Year in Review
There are many words we’ve heard used to encapsulate all that was 2017. Some of them are depressing, a few…
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