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Practicing Accessible Design in Community Development
How do communities design for accessibility? What can we learn from co-creating living spaces with people with disabilities and their…
Category: Community Engagement
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Asset-Based Community Development for Planned Affordable Housing in San Jose
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Data Synthesis Plan
Last Updated: November, 2021 Telling a clear and defensible story with your insights is essential to transforming data into meaningful…
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Stakeholder Identification
Last Updated: November, 2021 A key step to engaging the humans in human-centered design is identifying your stakeholders. This framework…
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Communications Strategy & Messaging Guidelines
Last Updated: November, 2021 When engaging stakeholders (whether it be the general public, partners, staff, etc.), it is important to…
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Survey Design
Last Updated: November, 2021 Surveys can be a powerful data collection method when we want a high quantity of Responses,…
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Interview Protocol
Last Updated: November, 2021 The Stakeholder Interview is one of the most powerful tools in the human-centered design toolbox. Interviews…
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San Francisco Homeless Workforce Systems Alignment
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Santa Clara County Housing Authority Community Engagement
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San Francisco Public Research Program
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Creative Constraints: Designing a Virtual Community Meeting during a Crisis
In the era of physical distancing, face-to-face public participation tactics like town hall meetings, community workshops and tabling are not…
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Everything is Data: Making Sense of COVID-19 with Human Connection
Finding hope for positive systems change from an informal online meetup with public servants I’ll admit it. I’m a compulsive…
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San Francisco ‘SF Shines’ Program Evaluation and Implementation
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City of Hayward Strategic Plan
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Napa Valley Transportation Authority Countywide Plan
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Pew Charitable Trusts Parks & Tech Challenge
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Trusting the process, and the people — Designing the Parks and Tech Challenge
Oftentimes, when deep into the design of a group process, I hit a point where the possibility of failure seems…
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CA Health & Human Services Knowledge Sharing Platform
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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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Co-Discovery: A Process for Impactful Projects
At CivicMakers, we believe gathering the right mix of people, cultivating community and building trust are key ingredients for any successful…
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