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Brigade 2.0

Taking agency of your brigade

Aaron Deacon

Managing Director

KC Digital Drive

Bonnie Wolfe

Executive Director�Hack for LA

Gregory Johnson

Executive Director

Code for South Florida

Kate Nicholson

Director of Partnerships & Events

BetaNYC

Civic Tech 2.0: Taking agency of your brigade is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Agenda

  • Brief Introduction - 5 mins
  • Topical Questions & Discussions - 40 mins
    • Team and Leadership - 10 mins
    • Funding and Partnership - 10 mins
    • Workforce Development - 10 mins
    • Non-Profit Structure - 10 mins
  • Q/A ( 10 mins)

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Hack for LA

Code for South Florida

Code for KC / Kansas City Digital Drive

BetaNYC

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Today’s Panel

BetaNYC

Director of Partnerships

Kate Nicholson

KC Digital Drive

(Code for KC)

Managing Director

Aaron Deacon

Code for South Florida

Executive Director

Gregory Johnson

Hack for LA�Executive Director

Bonnie Wolfe

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“Brigade 2.0” = Impactful Local Civic Tech Orgs

Sharing strategies & methodologies

Deepening relationships

Build local leadership & infrastructure

Learning & doing!

Code for America Summit, March 2020

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Code for America is national.

Local civic tech ecosystems need their own organizational structure and identity.

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Our Purpose

  • Peer to peer support
  • Sharing & learning of effective practices
  • Collaborating on program initiatives
  • Comparing differences

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10-month Outcomes & Results

  • Hack for LA - creating a local fellowship model
  • KC Digital Drive - learning from a similar project in another city
  • Code for South - build an independent funding model
  • BetaNYC - thought leadership and business model validation

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Topical Questions & Discussions�

  • Team and Leadership
  • Funding and Partnership
  • Workforce Development
  • Non-Profit Structure

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Non-Profit Structure

Moderated by Kate Nicholson

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Team and Leadership

Moderated by Bonnie Wolfe

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Funding and Partnership

Moderated by Gregory Johnson

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Workforce Development

Moderator by Aaron Deacon

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#Brigade2point0