Use Cases
Understand the Civic Landscape
Our curated resources span four key focus areas: civic research, civic data, civic tech, and civic design.
- If you already know what kind of syllabus you want to build, head to Resources to find materials that align with your topic. Don’t forget to use the filters to make your search more specific.
- If you’re unsure or haven’t decided on a topic yet, go to Before You Begin to learn more about our four key focus areas, or use the tags and filters in the resources to explore different domains or topics that interest you.
Create, Cultivate, and Sustain Partnerships
By building strong partnerships, civic programs can leverage collective strengths, resources, and expertise to create more impactful and sustainable initiatives that truly benefit the community.
Follow the strategies and tips in Build Partnerships to understand how fostering robust, lasting partnerships support the civic research, civic data, civic design, and civic technology work we do.
Working Together to Get Something Done
The Get to Work offers a comprehensive framework for partnerships interested in learning how to execute civic projects effectively. It is structured around three main units:
- Project Well-Being focuses on the foundational principles of collaborative creation and maintaining team health, emphasizing the importance of working “with” communities rather than “for” them and addressing issues like burnout.
- Project Design covers the conceptualization and planning stages, defining success and failure metrics, and strategies for engaging stakeholders effectively.
- Project Execution delves into the practical aspects of carrying out a project, including asking the right questions, ensuring accessibility, effective communication, managing data (both big and thick), maintaining privacy and consent, and incorporating equity in analytics and digital services. It also addresses scaling successful projects.
These units provide your partnership with a cohesive approach to developing impactful and sustainable civic projects.
You Are Not Alone: Access to Our Extensive Tools
Use tools filter in resources to support project development and scaling efforts.