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Celebrating public service and public servants

Explore 28 projects in the Celebrating public service and public servants category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

Projects that celebrate the workers who build and deliver public services, often anonymously and thanklessly. This type of story-based campaign is crucial to improving public awareness of what government actually does for the people, which in turn can help inoculate public opinion against cutting critical government services.

28 projects

Professional Municipal Clerks Week

Initiated in 1969...the week is a time of celebration and reflection on the importance of the Clerk’s office.

USA

Public Service Viewpoint Survey

In August 2025, the Office of Personnel Management decided to cancel the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. Because of this decision, the Partnership created the Public Service Viewpoint Survey to fill this critical gap and provide career federal employees with an opportunity to share their perspectives on their workplace, work unit, supervisor, organization and leadership.

Washington, DC
2025

Digital Service Champions Awards

The 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards celebrate excellence in digital government modernization.

USA
2025

Public Service Day

The UN Public Service Day intends to celebrate the value and virtue of public service to the community; highlight the contribution of public service in the development process; recognize the work of public servants, and encourage young people to pursue careers in the public sector.

2022
United Nations

Nominate a Rising Civic AI Leader (Aspen Digital)

Aspen Digital and the Aspen Policy Academy are launching a new program for Rising Civic AI Leaders to educate newly hired state and local government employees in charge of managing the adoption and implementation of AI-driven tools.

Aspen Institute, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
2025

The Impact Project

The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities.

USA
2025

Public Service Recognition Week

Public Service Recognition Week is celebrated the first week of May since 1985 (beginning on the first Sunday of the month) to honor the people who serve our nation as federal, state, county, local and tribal government employees.

Washington, DC

The People Lab

Producing cutting-edge research on the people of government and the communities they are called to serve.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA