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Santa Cruz County’s Workforce Ecosystem Showcases its Big Ideas
“Speak up, fix sh*t, and make work suck less.” This was one of the mic-drop moments from a team composed…
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The CivicMakers Menu of Services
The CivicMakers Team is hitting a celebratory milestone in November, 2025 - 10 years of bringing human-centered design to public…
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Ridiculously Hopeful Futures Meets Meeting of the Minds
At California Workforce Association’s (CWA) Meeting of the Minds conference in Monterey (September 2025), we invited participants to time travel…
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Co-Designing Technology for Human-Centered Public Services
Background In the Spring of 2025, our Ridiculously Hopeful Futures (RHF) project invited community members and public benefits administrators across…
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Four Key Takeaways from a Co-Design Session in Humboldt County
At a time when public benefits programs are in a state of uncertainty due to the utter chaos ensuing at…
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Ecosystem Mapping
What is Ecosystem Mapping? Ecosystem mapping helps you see the bigger picture of how different elements - like people, groups,…
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Tool Case Study: Developing Personas in the Santa Barbara County Workforce Development Board
The CivicMakers Team led the inaugural Workforce Transformation Corps cohort, in partnership with Make Fast Studio, Jobs for the Future,…
