Civic Roundtable

Join our upcoming Roundtable conversation — wherever you work in government — to learn with and from the public servants running programs and making government operations work. Best practices for state and local government coordination come from the people doing the work. This conversation will help you answer: ✅ How do I coordinate effectively across agencies and outside of government? ✅ How can I track and manage stakeholders to keep the mission moving? ✅ How do I give the right partners the right information when they need it? Join breakout discussions and case studies showing how: 📢 A state health agency distributing real-time updates with network of 100+ state, city, and nonprofit partners 🤝 A county government aligning non-profit collaborators throughout a continuum of care 📍 A state election agency connecting county clerks across the state to exchange fast answers and best practices 📋 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄: https://lnkd.in/e-qN4PR7 📆 Dec. 16, 2025 🕑 3PM ET / 12PM PT

Join our upcoming Roundtable conversation — wherever you work in government — to learn with and from the public servants running programs and making government operations work. Best practices for state and local government coordination come from the people doing the work. This conversation will help you answer: ✅ How do I coordinate effectively across agencies and outside of government? ✅ How can I track and manage stakeholders to keep the mission moving? ✅ How do I give the right partners the right information when they need it? 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄: 📢 A state health agency distributing real-time updates with network of 100+ state, city, and nonprofit partners 🤝 A county government aligning non-profit collaborators throughout a continuum of care 📍 A state election agency connecting county clerks across the state to exchange fast answers and best practices 📋 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄: https://lnkd.in/e-qN4PR7 📆 Dec. 16, 2025 🕑 3PM ET / 12PM PT

The best insights about state and local government coordination? They come from the people doing the work. Join other state and local program managers for a facilitated conversation centered on practical approaches. From launching new initiatives to managing multi-stakeholder programs, we'll explore the coordination strategies that turn ambitious plans into meaningful community impact. Come for the real-world stories, stay for the connections with other practitioners navigating the same challenges you are. What you can expect: ✅ Actual case studies ✅ Honest conversation ✅ Practical insights 📋 Register now: https://lnkd.in/e-qN4PR7 📆 Dec. 16, 2025 🕑 3PM ET / 12PM PT

Really exciting news this morning: Civic Roundtable has been named one of Fast Company's 2026 Next Big Things in Tech! 🚀 When we started Roundtable, we had a simple belief: public servants doing mission-critical work every day deserve technology built for the reality of that work. Today, thousands of public servants across more than 5K organizations in all 50 states use Roundtable to work together on some of our communities’ biggest challenges, from helping veterans find housing and connecting families to critical services, to preparing communities for disasters and making sure people have the information they need. Very proud of this team. We are working hard to do right by the public servants who have trusted us to build alongside them, and very excited about what’s ahead. Government is a team sport. We’re building the technology to help the team work better. Thank you Fast Company for the recognition!!

Big news: Civic Roundtable has been named a Fast Company 2026 Next Big Things in Tech honoree! 🎊 We’re honored to be recognized in the “On the Rise” category, celebrating young companies building technology with the potential to shape what’s next. We started Civic Roundtable with a simple belief: public servants doing mission-critical work every day deserve technology built for the reality of that work. We’re incredibly proud of this team, grateful to the public servants building alongside us, and excited for what’s ahead. Thank you to Fast Company for the recognition — and, more importantly, thank you to the thousands of public servants who trust Roundtable to support their work every day. We’re just getting started. 🚀 #FCTechAwards

Technical assistance almost always gets funded like a project, and that's the root of the problem. When requirements change, money gets appropriated, a consultant is hired, and eighteen months later the engagement closes out and everyone reports success. But technical assistance isn't a project. It's an operating function that never ends, because there's always another rule change, another cohort of new staff, another edge case nobody anticipated. So the money goes toward delivery — the training, the site visit, the office hours — and almost none of it toward ensuring the lessons, processes, and institutional knowledge reaches beyond the people who were in the room. Adding more experts doesn’t fix this. Instead, agencies are starting to approach technical assistance as a loop that runs continuously: → know who is actually in your network → reach the people a given change applies to → answer their questions where the work is happening → notice which questions keep coming back → fix the guidance so they stop coming back at all Each pass makes the next one cheaper, because the answers stay put and the next person finds them without asking. Expert hours don't compound, knowledge does, but only if there’s infrastructure to capture it and surface it the next time it’s needed Some longer thoughts about this in our recent blog post. Link in the first comment. If you manage a TA budget: what fraction of this year's is going toward something still useful to you in three years?