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April 2013 Edition |
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Last year when we (Code for America) began officially supporting civic startups, we created a program to support companies that build tools that help government work more effectively and transparently. We call it the Code for America Accelerator. Ever since then, our organization and our officespace has become a hotbed of entrepreneurial energy — right now more than nine startups share our space, and six of them are civic-focused. This expansion within our small corner of the civic technology ecosystem is in some ways reflective of a bigger story... more > |
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At a Chinese restaurant last weekend, my fortune cookie read: You are a deep thinker and a good problem solver.
I was flattered by my cookie’s opinion, but the thought that sprang to mind was that the fortune was an excellent description of the Code for America board.
Many non-profit boards serve primarily a governance function, making sure we’re on mission, financially stable, and not doing anything too crazy. Ours certainly does that, but their real value is they way they help us think through our strategy, align our activities with the impact we want to have, and solve problems. It’s really more of brain-and-heart-trust pointed at the engines of Code for America, and for that I’m hugely grateful. more > |
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Lean Startups and the Rise of Iterative Placemaking
by Lou Huang
Sometimes, when people hear “Code for America” they might assume that we fellows are all computer programmers, but quite a few of us have backgrounds in architecture, urban design, city planning, community organizing, transportation, and housing policy.
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May 9
SF Accelerator Drink-up
Join join Code for America staff and startups from the inaugural CfA Accelerator to learn first-hand about the program.
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Streetmix
This fun app emerged from a January hackathon (inspired by last year's Blockee), and allows users to design a street buy clicking and draggin bike lanes, car lanes, lane dividers, etc. — it's literally a " Digital Mixing Board for Your street." |
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Spending a week living on a $32.17 food budget. Shadowing a homeless shelter caseworker. Riding shotgun on a midnight police patrol. Hiking portions of a 110 mile canal trail. Spending time in jail (just visiting). Jogging through the city with the Mayor.
What do all of these have in common? more > |
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Called “a geek squad of civic-minded number-crunchers” by the New York Times in a recent profile, the predictive analytics team led by City of New York’s Chief Analytics Officer Mike Flowers is pioneering new approaches in the field of civic data. Working out of the Mayor’s office this groundbreaking group of civic hackers inside City Hall is pushing forward some of the most innovative and effective uses of civic analytics — and they have the results to show for it.
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April is National Volunteer Month and right now it’s National Volunteer Week. The point of “National…Month/Week/Day” recognitions like this is, well, recognition. Volunteers give their time every day. It’s now time to say, Thank You. And, we best honor our volunteers when we can tell them, and everyone, “Here’s what your contributions did last year to make a difference.” more > |
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We would like to acknowledge the Omidyar Network for their continued and generous support of our programming.
Special thanks as well to:
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EMC, for their second year of support for the Data Science Fellowship
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Skoll Foundation, for their grants to finalists in the Huffington Post JobRaising Challenge, including CfA
Fellowship community match support (for this past month) // South Bend: St. Joseph Regional Medical Center
VMWare Foundation // Jonah Kim // Chris Cocchiaraley // Carl Larsson // Herbert Kanner |
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