“How to make a culture of repair? Show what’s broken” - Anibal Davila at #civicspark
August 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“How to make a culture of repair? Show what’s broken” - Anibal Davila at #civicspark
“You have to create ways for people to participate even if they don’t believe the future is possible.” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
August 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“You have to create ways for people to participate even if they don’t believe the future is possible.” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
@apha.org A3: PHI’s CivicSpark is an award-winning, evidence-based AmeriCorps program that places more than 100 fellows each year with local govt agencies & communities to help build capacity to bolster community resilience in public health, climate change & social determinants of health. #NPHWChat
CivicSpark - Public Health Institute
The CivicSpark fellowship program is an award-winning and evidence-based AmeriCorps program that places more than 100 fellows each year with local government agencies and community…
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April 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“Social justice work is like being a virus in a body of injustice that’s constantly trying to get back to homeostasis” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
August 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“Social justice work is like being a virus in a body of injustice that’s constantly trying to get back to homeostasis” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
Today’s the day!
Welcome to #CivicSpark 2025.
First stop by to say hi to our registration team Noami, John, and Ben. Then help yourself to breakfast. ☕️
Welcome to #CivicSpark 2025.
First stop by to say hi to our registration team Noami, John, and Ben. Then help yourself to breakfast. ☕️
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today’s the day!
Welcome to #CivicSpark 2025.
First stop by to say hi to our registration team Noami, John, and Ben. Then help yourself to breakfast. ☕️
Welcome to #CivicSpark 2025.
First stop by to say hi to our registration team Noami, John, and Ben. Then help yourself to breakfast. ☕️
“With an ethic of hopelessness we don’t do what we do because the outcomes are assured but because that’s what dignity looks like, it’s what love looks like” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
August 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“With an ethic of hopelessness we don’t do what we do because the outcomes are assured but because that’s what dignity looks like, it’s what love looks like” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
Hope you all are having great time with the folks at @1rg.space!
h/t @civictechto.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social #CivicSpark
h/t @civictechto.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social #CivicSpark
August 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hope you all are having great time with the folks at @1rg.space!
h/t @civictechto.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social #CivicSpark
h/t @civictechto.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social #CivicSpark
PHI's CivicSpark places highly motivated emerging leaders in #PublicHealth with local organizations to support #research, planning, and implementation projects for community resilience. Public agencies, Tribes, and non-profit organizations can apply to host a #fellow by Monday, June 30:
Apply: PHI's Civic Spark Partner Applications - Public Health Institute
Returning organizations can apply to host a PHI CivicSpark Fellow to help advance community resilience goals, with a focus on regions disproportionately affected by the…
www.phi.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
PHI's CivicSpark places highly motivated emerging leaders in #PublicHealth with local organizations to support #research, planning, and implementation projects for community resilience. Public agencies, Tribes, and non-profit organizations can apply to host a #fellow by Monday, June 30:
We are honored to be selected as finalists in ICOM's COMMS Awards, which celebrates the museums and communicators reimagining how institutions connect with the world. We've received this recognition for our #CivicSpark Studio, a physical installation in our museum which collects visitor stories.
September 23, 2026 at 1:48 PM
We are honored to be selected as finalists in ICOM's COMMS Awards, which celebrates the museums and communicators reimagining how institutions connect with the world. We've received this recognition for our #CivicSpark Studio, a physical installation in our museum which collects visitor stories.
Volunteer Toronto is offering $1,000 grants to 35 “groups of neighbours in Toronto that want to deliver a project to build connection in their community in 2026.” The deadline to apply is 11:59 PM tomorrow. www.surveymonkey.com/r/CivicSpark...
Civic Spark Microgrants Application
Civic Spark Microgrants is a program of Volunteer Toronto.
www.surveymonkey.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Volunteer Toronto is offering $1,000 grants to 35 “groups of neighbours in Toronto that want to deliver a project to build connection in their community in 2026.” The deadline to apply is 11:59 PM tomorrow. www.surveymonkey.com/r/CivicSpark...
Big congrats to Toronto's civic tech community for a decade of dedicated capacity-building, organizing + building. Was glad to be at #CivicSpark for *most* of today - offered a keynote on civic tech + sovereignty, and moderated an all-star panel of civic technologists. Then went to party w/ my son.
My @thestar.com column this week: Civic Tech in Toronto turns ten!
A look at some of the people getting together each week to hack away at our problems via @civictechto.bsky.social — and what City Hall could be doing to support their work.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
A look at some of the people getting together each week to hack away at our problems via @civictechto.bsky.social — and what City Hall could be doing to support their work.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Matt Elliott: Yes, tech can be a force for good. Meet the people hacking Toronto for the better
The volunteers who created the Civic Dashboard and BikeSpace apps this weekend mark their 10th anniversary of brainstorming and tech development with a two-day event called Civic Spark.
www.thestar.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Big congrats to Toronto's civic tech community for a decade of dedicated capacity-building, organizing + building. Was glad to be at #CivicSpark for *most* of today - offered a keynote on civic tech + sovereignty, and moderated an all-star panel of civic technologists. Then went to party w/ my son.
So excited for our @mapletestimony.bsky.social project to present at #CivicSpark! Check it out!
Today’s the day!
Welcome to #CivicSpark 2025.
First stop by to say hi to our registration team Noami, John, and Ben. Then help yourself to breakfast. ☕️
Welcome to #CivicSpark 2025.
First stop by to say hi to our registration team Noami, John, and Ben. Then help yourself to breakfast. ☕️
August 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
So excited for our @mapletestimony.bsky.social project to present at #CivicSpark! Check it out!
In a creative block? Ali and Zam want to talk about it at #CivicSpark unconfernce edition.
August 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In a creative block? Ali and Zam want to talk about it at #CivicSpark unconfernce edition.
After moving to LA to work in film, Nick found his true calling: service. Through CivicSpark, he launched programs for first-time homebuyers, seniors & people with disabilities — while navigating housing insecurity himself. 🏘️
Start your service journey: CAServiceCorps.com
Start your service journey: CAServiceCorps.com
March 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
After moving to LA to work in film, Nick found his true calling: service. Through CivicSpark, he launched programs for first-time homebuyers, seniors & people with disabilities — while navigating housing insecurity himself. 🏘️
Start your service journey: CAServiceCorps.com
Start your service journey: CAServiceCorps.com
“All of us here are about a government that works for all, and that’s not a left/right issue” #civicspark
August 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“All of us here are about a government that works for all, and that’s not a left/right issue” #civicspark
New statements are coming in for you to vote on. pol.is/3smctymsxs Then Pol.is will measure the hidden consensus. #CivicSpark
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pol.is
August 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New statements are coming in for you to vote on. pol.is/3smctymsxs Then Pol.is will measure the hidden consensus. #CivicSpark
@biancawylie.com opening #civicspark with the real talk; respecting boundaries, the importance of having hard political conversations, and *humility* (such a beautiful reminder in this time of hubris)
August 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@biancawylie.com opening #civicspark with the real talk; respecting boundaries, the importance of having hard political conversations, and *humility* (such a beautiful reminder in this time of hubris)
#civicspark was a super great conference! Getting to chat up some of the ex-18F folks was a highlight, I'm now even more pissed off that the Trump administration shitcanned Direct File.
August 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#civicspark was a super great conference! Getting to chat up some of the ex-18F folks was a highlight, I'm now even more pissed off that the Trump administration shitcanned Direct File.
We are “Walking backwards into our future … towards a precolonial conviviality” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
August 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We are “Walking backwards into our future … towards a precolonial conviviality” - Victor Udoewa #civicspark
Here at CivicSpark in Toronto. Looking forward to another brain-melting (in a good way!) idea-filled tech for good learnin’ day!
August 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Here at CivicSpark in Toronto. Looking forward to another brain-melting (in a good way!) idea-filled tech for good learnin’ day!
Andrew Do is presenting at #CivicSpark Stage 2. But why choose Participant Advisory Councils?
August 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Andrew Do is presenting at #CivicSpark Stage 2. But why choose Participant Advisory Councils?
Now is your chance to see for yourself how AI can assist in insuring your matters. Follow this link pol.is/3smctymsxs to join the conversation and help shape the collective picture. The more perspectives, the sharper the insight. #CivicSpark
Polis
pol.is
August 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Now is your chance to see for yourself how AI can assist in insuring your matters. Follow this link pol.is/3smctymsxs to join the conversation and help shape the collective picture. The more perspectives, the sharper the insight. #CivicSpark
Bike Brigade origin story; pandemic, willing people, bikes, a bespoke app and the rest is herstory #CivicSpark #mutualaid
August 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Bike Brigade origin story; pandemic, willing people, bikes, a bespoke app and the rest is herstory #CivicSpark #mutualaid
New #PublicHealth Jobs | Study: ED-Prescribed Medication Assisted Treatment Helps Keep Patients in Treatment | Host a PHI CivicSpark Fellow to Advance Climate Resiliency -- all that and more, in our latest updates: www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-jo...
New Jobs | ED-Prescribed Medication Assisted Treatment Helps Keep Patients in Treatment | Host a PHI CivicSpark Fellow to Advance Climate Resiliency
Study: ED-Prescribed Medication Assisted Treatment Helps Keep Patients in Treatment Since 2019, PHI's CA Bridge has worked with 80% of California's hospitals to make it easier for ER patients to get a...
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March 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New #PublicHealth Jobs | Study: ED-Prescribed Medication Assisted Treatment Helps Keep Patients in Treatment | Host a PHI CivicSpark Fellow to Advance Climate Resiliency -- all that and more, in our latest updates: www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-jo...
We’re adding “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein to our reading list. Be sure to tag #CivicSpark if you come across any more book recommendations this weekend.
August 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We’re adding “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein to our reading list. Be sure to tag #CivicSpark if you come across any more book recommendations this weekend.