Case Study
City of Pleasanton Budget Engagement
Focus Areas: Governance
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Blog Post
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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Case Study
City of West Sacramento Council Strategic Retreat
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Effective Online Facilitation Training
Good facilitators know how to create an environment that engenders trust, openness and allows participants to surface their creative ideas.…
October 7, 2020 @ 10:00 am
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Case Study
City of Hayward Strategic Plan
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Blog Post
The Culture Stack — Cultivating a More Resilient & Responsive Government
The govtech movement holds great promise, but is hindered by a glaring blindspot — the assumption that technology alone will…
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Case Study
California Health & Human Services Innovation Lab
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Case Study
City of Fremont Smart City Action Plan
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Case Study
CA Health & Human Services Knowledge Sharing Platform
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Blog Post
Now More Than Ever
If the recent election showed us anything, it’s that we need to learn to listen and understand each other better.…
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Blog Post
Cities and Startups Building Solutions and Community, Together
Last Thursday was spectacular. To say that CivicMakers facilitated a training and hosted a happy hour is missing the point.…
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Blog Post
#CivicTech Primer: What is “civic tech”?
Here in the Second Great Internet Bubble, we’ve come to accept Marc Andreessen’s maxim that “software is eating the world.”…
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