Brigade Organizer's Playbook Extension Project

Overview

The Brigade Organizer’s Playbook (BOP) Extension Project is an initiative of the Code for America National Advisory Council (NAC).

The BOP Extension Project seeks to build on the existing product and improve its value as a communal, high-value resource for sharing best practices in topic areas such as fundraising, recruiting members, running remote brigades, project management, setting and achieving DEI goals, etc.

🌐 This project is 100% open source, transparent and community led

• Our work flow is available online at our GitHub Project Broad
• As we do our research we will be adding the P&P assets to this spreadsheet

Project context Each of the 80+ Code for America Brigades generates valuable learnings in topic areas such as fundraising, recruiting members, running remote brigades, project management, setting and achieving DEI goals. What worked and how to replicate some of these are documented in the current Brigade Organizer’s Playbook.

Both the NAC and CfA independently identified the need to have replicable templates of processes and practices as part of their strategic priorities for 2020, to help scale the impact of Brigades' work to transform Civic life through technology.

The initial Scope of Work (SOW) Exploratory interviews with Brigade Organizers - to discover what best practices and processes exist, as well as report on what future needs would improve the ongoing collection and sharing of learnings across the network.

For more information the initial SOW and its milestones, refer to: Brigade Organizer's Playbook One Sheet

---

How to Contribute

• Brigade Leaders, UX Researchers, and general project people - We need you! Please read our BOP Extension Project Getting Involved Guide

Communication channels

• GitHub: Project Management Board & UXR Team Management Board
• CfA Slack #organizers-playbook
• Email [email protected]

Project Leadership

• Name: Bonnie Wolfe
  • Role: Agile Mentor & CfA National Advisory Council BOP project Co-Lead
  • email: email
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: experimentsinhonesty
• Name: Thad K.
  • Role: CfA National Advisory Council BOP project Co-Lead
  • email: email
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: thadk
• Name: Will Pfeffer
  • Role: CfA Brigade Network team representative
  • email: email
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: willpfeffer
• Name: Sam H.
  • Role: Product Manager
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: thesamwong
• Name: Serena Baleja
  • Role: Product Owner
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: Baleja
• Name: Marianne Miranda
  • Role: UX Research Team Lead
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: MarianneAnthonette
• Name: Raquel Nishijima
  • Role: Communication Designer & UX Researcher
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: raquelnish
• Name: Jon Kropko
  • Role: Data Scientist
• Name: Jon Kropko
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: jkropko
• Name: Tan Zhou
  • Role: Research Analysis Contributor
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: tan-zhou
• Name: Helen Lin
  • Role: Research Analysis Contributor
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: osnickersnee
• Name: Myranda Pierce
  • Role: Research Analysis Contributor
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: myrandi
• Name: Reem Mehdoui
  • Role: Research Analysis Contributor
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: reemux
• Name: Mark Gothard
  • Role: Research Analysis Contributor
  • Slack: CfA Slack
  • Github: mgoth

Past Contributors, with thanks to:

• Special Projects Coordinator - Naomi Chao CfA Slack

Volunteer management is being provided by the Hack for LA - Civic Tech Structure team.