During the fall of 2016, Civic Hall Labs facilitated seven listening sessions with New York City youth, seniors, and immigrants, and the practitioners from community-based organizations who serve them in order to understand real challenges…

Access to resources and mentorship, voter participation, integration of new Angelenos, and supporting local entrepreneurs were just a few of the many issues explored at the #ImmigrationHack held on July 19. Over 100 designers, programmers, activists,…

This past month, the Civic Innovation Lab, in partnership with FWD.us and Welcome.us, celebrated Immigrant Heritage Month (IHM). Established in 2014, #IHM2015 is a nationwide effort to gather and share inspirational stories of immigration in…

After many months since our events last fall where over 600 Angelenos gathered to create design challenges for the next part of Civic Innovation Lab, we are officially launching Challenge:LA. In partnership with the Office…

On Sunday, we saw change in action at the launch of Civic Innovation Lab. Civic Innovation Lab is a novel community-driven solutions forum that aims to tackle issues plaguing Los Angeles using design challenges drawn from the…

Civic Innovation Lab will focus on the following data sets for the first session. We plan on revisiting these choices using feedback and observations from participants. We narrowed down the sample data sets based on…