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  • Delivery-driven Government

    Delivery-driven Government

    Principles and Practices for Government in the Digital Age
    Go to the profile of Jennifer Pahlka
    Jennifer Pahlka
    May 30
    Restoring opportunity, delivering on the promise voters intended

    Restoring opportunity, delivering on the promise voters intended

    DA Gascón teams up with Code for America to automatically reduce eligible marijuana convictions in San Francisco & beyond
    Go to the profile of By Code for America
    By Code for America
    May 15
    Reshaping the safety net: The Integrated Benefits Initiative State Cohort

    Reshaping the safety net: The Integrated Benefits Initiative State Cohort

    In the United States, the social safety net is composed of more than 80 services that together lift almost 50 million Americans above the…
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    By Code for America
    Aug 28
    Overcoming Barriers: Finding better ways to ask GetCalFresh applicants about income

    Overcoming Barriers: Finding better ways to ask GetCalFresh applicants about income

    By Eric Giannella, Norris Hung, Sharon Melmon, and Ben Sheldon
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    By Code for America
    Aug 23
    Joining Forces in Crisis

    Joining Forces in Crisis

    Code for America Brigades work together amid disaster
    Go to the profile of Christopher Whitaker
    Christopher Whitaker
    Oct 10
    From accident to investment: How to run better blameless postmortems

    From accident to investment: How to run better blameless postmortems

    We held our seventh annual Code for America Summit in June, and we were fortunate enough to have John Allspaw, Founder of Adaptive Capacity…
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    Lou Moore
    Aug 14
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    Code for America Network’s Code of Conduct Report 2018 Q4

    Last quarter, we published our first Code of Conduct transparency report for the quarter. We’re continuing to posting these every quarter.
    Go to the profile of Christopher Whitaker
    Christopher Whitaker
    Oct 16
    The New Pro-Government Posse

    The New Pro-Government Posse

    Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. — Joni Mitchell
    Go to the profile of Jennifer Pahlka
    Jennifer Pahlka
    Oct 4
    Uniquely Different: How we make civic tech “work” in our small city

    Uniquely Different: How we make civic tech “work” in our small city

    August 18th marked the fifth year Code for Asheville has participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking. Members of the Asheville…
    Go to the profile of Jesse Michel
    Jesse Michel
    Oct 4
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