It was a simple hypothesis: a year is enough time to fuse a change in how local governments tackle their most significant challenges. Founded in 2011, FUSE was conceived by longtime McKinsey leader Lenny Mendonca, entrepreneur Peter Sims, and great civic minds inside and outside the public sector to place entrepreneurial talent inside the government. … Continued
This FUSE-produced story was originally published on Next City. The Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting has the not-so-small task of maintaining more than 223,000 lights throughout city neighborhoods and streets, contributing to the safety and well-being of four million residents. For more than a decade, it has been transitioning to new technologies — converting … Continued
This FUSE-produced story was originally published on Next City. Nearly $85 billion in venture capital funding was invested in 2017. An analysis of publicly available venture deals for that year found that more than 75 percent of the founders who received venture backing were white and more than 90 percent were men. Most were from … Continued
This FUSE-produced story was originally published on Route Fifty. If there’s one resource that government has in spades, it’s data. But as any agency cursed with stacks of paper knows, piles of data are only as useful as the ability to process them. Across industries, organizations are on average using less than half of their structured … Continued
This story was produced in partnership with Next City. On a sparsely developed corner, on Skid Row in Los Angeles, where tent cities sometimes stretch the length of entire blocks, a line is forming outside a storage facility known as The Bin. At 8 a.m. most mornings, local residents wait outside the building’s entrance to access … Continued
On any given night in Los Angeles County, more than 53,000 people seek a place to sleep. Though that number has actually dropped from previous years, structural factors persist, including climbing unemployment, stagnant wages, and insufficient affordable housing. To help address the issue, Los Angeles County is investing in two key resources: funding for housing and … Continued