REPURPOSE FOR RESULTS
BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES WHAT WORKS CITIES & RESULTS FOR AMERICA

Role: Human Centered Design Lead
Dates: July 2017 - June 2019
Scope: Qualitative practices, concept design & development, workshop design & facilitation, coaching & training
Focus areas: Budgeting, housing, and education

Overview
Repurpose for Results (Repurpose) is Results for America's new technical assistance program, which aims to be a resource cities can use to shift funding from ineffective programs and services, to those that are evidence-based and resident-centered. The program is being developed to support cities across the country through Bloomberg Philanthropies’s What Works Cities initiative.

Process
I led the coaching and training of two medium sized U.S. cities in human-centered design and equitable community engagement strategies. This was a sixteen month project where I was embedded in two city offices, city of San Jose (CA) and city of South Bend (IN). I provided hands-on training over the course of several months in addition to intensive one day trainings for teams from across city agencies.

Outcome
This resulted in informing key structural changes to the allocation of resources for housing policies and educational program development. Additionally, this resulted in an internal playbook for other cities within the What Works Cities network may reference in order to catapult their own outcomes-based budgeting model and process.

Press
This project will be highlighted in the forthcoming LEAP 3 anthology as part of a previous series published by Art Center College of Design.

More on the multi-year project here.