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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…
We envision a world where every person has the potential to be a CivicMaker, with tools, skills, and capacities to advance collaborative decision-making, and every community has what they need to co-create solutions. Being in and contributing to a community of practice brings new opportunities and layers of meaning into our work.
Check out our blog posts, events, and curated human-centered design resources below.
Every year, the CivicMakers Team takes a look at what projects (both internal and external), people, and partners furthered our…
Berkeley Public Library’s team hosted a All-Staff Day in September, 2023 that they wanted to be rooted in Human-Centered Design…
At the end of January, we had the honor of designing and facilitating a participatory event with our partners…
The CivicMakers Team gathered together for what we called a Team Strategy Jam on Monday, June 12th, at our office…
CivicMakers launches our new brand and website, and celebrates the talented community of civic design partners who helped get us…
January 13, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
Read New Year, New Brand, Same CivicMakers: A Community Celebration!Join us for a hands-on training on how to apply human-centered design to your Community Engagement strategy. Every organization needs to connect…
November 2, 2018 @ 9:00 am
Read Human-Centered Community Engagement TrainingJoin us for a unique application of human-centered design as we walk you step-by-step through meaningful and impactful Strategic Planning. See if…
October 19, 2018 @ 8:45 am
Read Human-Centered Strategic Planning TrainingDo you work for the State? The City? The County? Are you in the private sector, but gov-curious? Either way, we want to hang…
August 24, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Read Civic Mixer in Sacramento!We’ve learned so much from our community, and we want to return the favor. Our Resource Library features some of the tools and resources that we use most often in our work. Each has been used, iterated and improved upon through numerous client projects. We hope you find them useful for your own work. If you have questions, or would like to see other tools or resources, drop us a line!
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Last Updated: November, 2021 When engaging stakeholders (whether it be the general public, partners, staff, etc.), it is important to…