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Innovation Lab: Building Creative and Impactful Civic Practices Sarah Craft, Program Coordinator, Civic Innovation Lab, Michigan Municipal League Greg Stopka, Central Regional Director, Alliance for Innovation Joe Gacioch, City of Ferndale

Get to know your peers Learn from national and statewide case studies, as well as the people in the room Explore new topics in civic innovation Take lessons, experiences, and contacts back to your own community

Alliance for Innovation: Inspiring Innovation to Advance Communities Greg Stopka Membership Director

Alliance for Innovation  Premier Resource for Emerging Practices  Building Cultures of Innovation  Connecting Thought Leaders 4

What is an innovation lab?  Learn about new innovations  Learn from action-leaders  Develop plan to adapt ideas  Connect with local governments behind the ideas  Adapt ideas and develop pilots  Showcase the results 5

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Ferndale Innovation Lab: Engagement & Civic Trust Joe Gacioch Assistant City Manager

• Elected officials • Leadership attended? • Staff • Graduate students • University of Michigan faculty • Other city executives Who at

The e way y we l e look a at t the w e world ld sh shap apes t the e way w y we t think k abou out i it.

Innovation Lab: Panelist Topics • Ideation ▫ Innovation Identifying the Adaptation best tools for engagement Actualization • Networking Involving citizens in Becoming better solving community ▫ Expand your professional network storytellers problems ▫ Professional development Being socially Building consensus equitable in around community community problems engagement

Small Groups: What Resonated with our Participants? • Prevailing practice ▫ Piqua, OH: CitizenNet Identifying the • Prevailing practice best tools for engagement ▫ Dublin, OH; Novi, MI: Biannual community survey • Leading practice Involving citizens in Becoming better ▫ Hamilton, OH; Evanston, IL: 311 Citizen solving community storytellers problems Request System • Emerging practice ▫ Fate, Tx: Virtual ridealong with officers Being socially Building consensus equitable in around community community problems engagement

Small Groups: What Resonated with our Participants? • Emergent practice: ▫ Topeka, KS: Tweet-a-longs Identifying the • Leading practice: best tools for engagement ▫ Avondale, AZ; Dublin, OH: Community Facebook Photoshare • Prevailing practice: Involving citizens in Becoming better ▫ Lawrence, KS: Lunch’n-Learns on department solving community storytellers problems processes ▫ Dublin, OH; Novi, MI: Biannual community survey • Leading practice ▫ Olathe, KS; Tyler, TX, Ferndale, MI: Using Being socially infographics to narrate issues Building consensus equitable in around community community problems engagement

Small Groups: What Resonated with our Participants? • Prevailing practice ▫ Austin, TX; Hamilton, OH: Diversity and Identifying the inclusiveness (DI) commissions best tools for engagement • Prevailing practice ▫ Painesville, OH: Diversity of housing stock and service provision Involving citizens in • Leading practice Becoming better solving community storytellers problems ▫ Brooklyn Park, MN: Strategic planning for a diverse community • Leading practice: ▫ New Haven, MI; Oak Park, IL: Community and diversity dinners Being socially Building consensus equitable in around community community problems engagement

Small Groups: What Resonated with our Participants? • Prevailing practice ▫ Waukeksha, WI: Roadshows to discuss Identifying the budget and service changes best tools for engagement • Leading practice ▫ Austin, TX: Budget in a Box – mailing budget engagement activities to citizens Involving citizens in • New idea from conversation: Becoming better solving community storytellers problems ▫ Ferndale, MI: Pocket-plan – little free-library street concept for advertising a graphic summary of the 2016 MLUP update Being socially Building consensus equitable in around community community problems engagement

Small Groups: What Resonated with our Participants? • Leading practice ▫ Novi, MI; Sugarland, TX, Piqua, OH: Citizen, Identifying the fire, and police leadership academies best tools for engagement • Leading practice ▫ Kansas City; Blue Springs, MO; Austin, TX: Open data platform – ordinance, policy, Involving citizens in strategic plan for open data Becoming better solving community storytellers problems • Emerging practice ▫ Wyoming, OH: MeWeUs – citizen engagement forums • Emerging practice ▫ Austin, TX: The Neighborhood Partnering Being socially Program Building consensus equitable in around community community problems engagement

Michigan Case Studies: Engagement & Civic Trust Sarah Craft MML Civic Innovation Labs

Benton Harbor

Vassar

Saginaw

Allegan

Hamtramck Picture: Grandmont Rosedale Community Development Corporation

Monroe

East Lansing

Detroit

What does engagement & civic trust mean to you?

Roundtable Discussions Introduce yourself, how does this topic resonate with you? What challenges are you experiencing? What successes are you having? What lessons could you bring to your community? How could you apply what you learned to an upcoming initiative? How could we explore this topic further?