Posted on May 16, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka
People often ask me about various innovative efforts to change America’s voting rates, habits, or options. There is a ton of interesting experimentation happening here, from TurboVote to ElectNext to Americans Elect. I haven’t dug in deeply to any of …
Posted on April 26, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka
“Work like you live in the early days of a better nation.” – Dennis Leigh My current obsession (other than reading the applications to our new CfA Accelerator) is figuring out how to paint this quote on the most visible …
Posted on March 9, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka
I’m doing a keynote on Tuesday at South by Southwest. To be honest, I haven’t finished writing the talk yet. Yes, I know it’s only a few days away and thousands of people are going to see it. I’m a …
Posted on March 3, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka
This week I did something I never thought I would do: I gave a talk at TED. I’ve given several TEDx talks now, but TED in Long Beach has been the stage of such world-changing talks as Sir Ken Robinson’s …
Posted on February 10, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka
For the past few months, Civic Commons has been led by Nick Grossman, formerly of OpenPlans, who was one of the originators of the project and a key driver of it throughout its history. This month, Nick is going to …
Posted on January 3, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka
The 2012 Fellows arrive tomorrow (gulp!) and we realize that we haven’t even introduced the new staff that has joined to help them. In the whirlwind of the last couple of months, three new staff have come on, three fantastic people …
Posted on December 14, 2011 by Jennifer Pahlka
Today, we’re pleased to announce that with the support of Google, Code for America will be growing quite a bit in 2012. The charitable giving team at Google is granting Code for America $1.5M to help us do more with …
Posted on December 13, 2011 by Jennifer Pahlka
The Code for America fellows accomplished a lot this year — not just in terms of code or apps for the CfA cities, but also learnings for the program — and we couldn’t be more proud of them. We’re pleased …
Posted on October 13, 2011 by Jennifer Pahlka
Code for America brings together innovative cities from around the country with passionate technologists eager to make a difference, and pairs them up for a year-long fellowship program. Both are selected through a competitive process; for 2012, over 20 cities …
Posted on September 30, 2011 by Jennifer Pahlka
The number one question I am asked these days is, “How did Code for America get started?” Though the Fast Company article from 2010 covered the story pretty well, I’ll share a longer version of it here, partly anticipating that …
