Building a Data-Driven Strategy to Enhance Community Impact

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FUSE is a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone.
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The FUSE Model centers around a one-year full-time public service role in city or county government and includes three primary phases from start to finish.
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FUSE Executive Fellows and Alumni are experienced leaders committed to advancing equity through action-oriented partnerships with government agencies.
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FUSE is a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone.
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The FUSE team and board of directors are committed to driving equitable change locally and nationally.
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The power of government. The experience of community. The impact of new ideas. Together we can build better systems
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The FUSE Model centers around a one-year full-time public service role in city or county government and includes three primary phases from start to finish.
Executive Fellowship Program
FUSE Executive Fellows and Alumni are experienced leaders committed to advancing equity through action-oriented partnerships with government agencies.
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Thanks to the generous support and close partnerships of our funders and supporters, we have been able to deepen our impact on issues that matter the most to communities and the government agencies that serve them.
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Through strategic collaboration, these initiatives harness innovative solutions and practices to bridge gaps in healthcare access.
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Health
Expanding access to affordable health care and mental health resources to improve key indicators of community health.
Justice
Enhancing public safety and reform of criminal justice by changing policing, 911 dispatching, bail, sentencing, probation, reentry.
Education
Improving options for childcare, early education, STEM, out-of-school-time, and post-secondary enrollment and affordability.
Climate
Building new infrastructure, disaster resilience, renewable energy, green economy jobs, and plans to reduce emissions.
Housing
Addressing issues of homelessness, housing insecurity, gentrification, and the need to preserve and build more affordable housing.
Jobs
Increasing the number of living-wage jobs and preparing for the future of work through expanded job training.
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The Central Library and the 72 branches of the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) serve the largest population of any public library system in the country. The library operates a range of community impact programs to help Angelenos with school and career, financial planning, health education, homeless and veterans’ affairs, and the immigration process.

FUSE Executive Fellow Donna Michelle Anderson helped LAPL develop data-driven systems for managing, implementing, and assessing this wide variety of programming in order to maximize impact. Under her leadership, the library developed new web experiences for e-media, as well as homeless and mental-health services. She also helped move paper processes to a digital platform, and she helped departments adopt an action plan approach to launching new projects or fixing existing processes, creating a new way of working throughout the department.

DONNA MICHELLE ANDERSON (2016-17) is a veteran television showrunner and executive, as well as a patented tech entrepreneur. She guides entertainment networks, nonprofits, and startups through branding, launching, and scaling their content and companies. Over the past 20 years, she has helmed top-rated programming for CBS, Bravo, BET, A&E, TLC, and more, created groundbreaking production software. She also championed diversity across multiple industries and founded the Hollywood Diversity Network. She is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, and American Mensa. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University.

Donna Michelle Anderson

2016-2017 | City of Los Angeles - Los Angeles Public Library

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