Roanoke, Virginia
With twice as many followers as residents, and an overall reach of 25M, the small city of Roanoke, Virgina (pop. 90,000) has taken civic engagement viral, and done it with an in-house staff of one...
31 May, 2019
CivX Now
With input from more than 7,000 educators and education supporters,CivX Now has literally put K-12 civics on the map, a crowdsourced geography intended to point the way to the ultimate destination...
31 May, 2019
District Builder
With District Builder, we, the people, are starting to crowdsource the redistricting process right out of the backrooms (in PA and beyond) and into the light, even beyond the electoral process entirely...
03 May, 2019
GiveDirectly
What if we just gave the poor money instead of creating programs to help them? GiveDirectly has been doing just that for more than a decade with surprising results...
03 May, 2019
Dan Price
In 2016, CEO Dan Price took a dramatic pay cut to insure every employee in his company was making at least $70,000. Three years later, business is booming, and he's helping mom-and-pops take on the "unbridled capitalism" of Amazon...
03 May, 2019
Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
At the US epicenter of the greatest global threat, the collaboration between four counties in southeast Florida is providing a potential regional model for dealing with climate change, not only in the US, but the world, says no less than Barack Obama...
23 March, 2019
Social Finance
Social Finance is bringing together local governments, non-profits, tech companies, and impact investors to create new programs with a catch: either the program works, or no one gets paid...
23 March, 2019
Rural-Urban Connections
Rural-Urban Connections Strategy and Center of the American West find ways we can all live, even work together, at least sometimes with a smile...
23 March, 2019
Phoenix, Arizona
The denizens of one of America's hottest cities band together to make life in the land of the sun more bearable, modeling an innovative all-in approach that could become a standard nationwide...
23 March, 2019
Participatory Budgeting Project
The Participatory Budgeting Project engages more than 300,000 citizens in 22 cities deciding how to spend more than $230M in public monies on hundreds of community projects across the U.S...
23 March, 2019