Tag: new york city
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NYC government publishing open data for municipally-contracted service providers
This post comes to us from Oonagh Jordan, a VISTA Fellow with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Opportunity. Oonagh is leading the project management of this initiative. In New York City, community-based organizations that deliver programming at neighborhood sites play a crucial role in administering City-funded programs and services. There is, however, currently…
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Streetlives NYC: designing with our users
[Our post today is from Adam Bard, founder of the Streetlives project. Welcome, Adam!] What is Streetlives Streetlives is a community built platform that will enable people who are homeless or in poverty to easily find, rate and recommend social services in NYC. This all-inclusive feedback loop can help stakeholders to collaboratively improve programs and…
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The Civic Imagination Fellowship with Civic Hall Labs [UPDATED with video]
I’m excited to share that I’ve been invited to join Civic Hall Labs as part of their inaugural cohort of Civic Imagination Fellows. Civic Hall is a community center civic innovators located in the Flatiron District of New York City. It was started by the proprietors of the Personal Democracy Forum, which is a conference and…