Education From music teacher to product designer - how DemocracyLab enabled Michael's journey In September 2022, Michael Hustedde, a professional violinist and former music teacher, graduated from Career Foundry’s User Experience Design boot camp, hoping to transition to product design. Unfortunately, as
Community Engagement Making Citizen’s Issues Accessible The Council Data Project was deployed in Missoula, Montana to provide a new and innovative way to for citizens to engage with City government.
Civic Engagement Building a Database to End School Violence Gun violence in schools is a public health issue that plagues our country. The Athena project is using social science and big data to create an app to power violence prevention programs in our schools.
Civic Engagement Volunteers make the 2021 Summer Create-a-thon a Success At this year's Create-a-thon ten projects came together with over 60 volunteers to make progress building tech-for-good. Both volunteers and project leaders enjoyed the event, found it rewarding, and made progress towards the goals they set.
DemocracyLab Optimizing Municipal Infrastructure with Smart City Planning Smart City Planning is creating a transparent, open source platform that puts the power to make data-driven decisions back into the hands of the community.
Education Supporting Diversity in the Health Sciences There’s a lack of diversity in the American healthcare field. Northwest Health Career Path (NWHCP) believes a healthcare workforce should reflect its community and works to support diversity in healthcare.
Tech For Good Every Voice Engaged: Transforming Lives, Communities, Government with Games, Software, and Collaboration Every Voice Engaged helps governments to meet citizens’ needs and help citizens engage with their Government.
Record Sponge Record Sponge Cleans Records, Changes Lives Record Sponge provides Oregon citizens with arrest records fast and free eligibility analysis that can lead to record expungements.
Civic Tech Benefits of Skilled Volunteering Nonprofits today are stretched thin due to lack of resources and funding. Their challenges are growing and they’re constantly in need of expertise that may not be available within their own organizations.
