Slater Matzke is working with the City of Vallejo on a marketing and communication strategy to reboot the city’s economy. Over the last couple of decades, Vallejo, an industrial city and naval center of 122,000 that sits on the north side of the San Francisco Bay, has faced a number of challenges. With the decommissioning of … Continued
You’ve taken on a super-complex challenge with a basic mission in hand: Devise a strategy for positive and transformational change, and implement as much of it as you can, as fast as you can. You have few resources — no fancy gadgets, no budget, no support team. So how do you survive in this scenario, and … Continued
As the Capital of Silicon Valley, San José is the “center of the universe” for innovation and disruptive technologies powered by the Internet economy. The San José metro area is the most connected region in the United States according to the 2015 American Communities Survey. That same year, Bloomberg cited San José as America’s richest … Continued
When government data are freely available for everyone to use and republish as they wish, they can drive social change. We are fortunate to have leaders in Sacramento who are committed to removing restrictions on the availability of data and promoting their use. Making government information available to the public in machine-readable formats can facilitate … Continued
The FUSE fellowship is known for being an opportunity to have local impact, but what is less known are the ways that our strategic projects can have national reach. Through a collaboration with the Clinton Global Initiative, a selection of FUSE Fellows were recently invited to participate in CGI America, an annual gathering of leaders … Continued
In my role with Deloitte Consulting, I worked with a variety of public-sector clients, including the Department of Transportation and the Department of Homeland Security, and managed projects that made a real difference in people’s lives. Although I found the work exciting and challenging, I still felt like there was something missing. In consulting, you … Continued
Last week was a busy one in the world of start-ups, entrepreneurs, and social innovators with SXSW in Austin and New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW). This year I was invited to attend NOEW as a panelist at the inaugural New Orleans Civic Innovation Summit with New Orleans Mayor, Mitch Landrieu, and inspiring local and national … Continued
Last year, Fellow Jeremy Goldberg was a recent transplant to San Francisco from Washington D.C. and a graduate student at University of San Francisco. Today, he is helping to shape the world around him, in this nation’s “new economy.” As noted in a speech I listened to last week at a large event which took … Continued