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May 15, 2025
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Building a human-centered digital experience

USDR partnered with Multnomah County to help build out their web and digital experience team.

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May 12, 2025
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Raised hands, changed lives: five years of USDR volunteer impact

As we mark five years of U.S. Digital Response (USDR), we’re celebrating not just the projects, but the people — thousands of volunteers who have shown up in moments of crisis and carried their commitment far beyond the work itself. By Jai Rodgers, talent community manager at USDR

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May 8, 2025
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Introducing USDR's new CEO

A Letter from Raylene Yung, USDR's founding CEO and current board member

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November 18, 2021
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Seeing the Beauty in “Dark Times”: How Being a Community Manager with USDR Helped One Volunteer Through the Last Year

Leonardo Rocchiccioli has offered his community management skills as a volunteer at USDR since August 2020. Here’s what he has to say about seeing beauty in “dark times.”

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November 18, 2021
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Volunteer Spotlight: Lauren Long

During a much-needed break from working with big consumer brands like Tide and Skittles, Lauren answered a call to use her marketing skills with U.S. Digital Response and help spotlight stories on the Economic Stability Team.

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October 12, 2021
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A Case Study on How to Improve Communications with Unemployment Insurance Claimants

Adopting a simple case management system helped one state labor department decrease workloads for case workers and accelerate processing for claimants

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October 12, 2021
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User-Centered Design Meets the Request for Proposal: Community Alliance with Family Farmers U.S. Digital Response U.S. Digital Response

Flipping the usually burdensome RFP process on its head helped CAFF build a process for the long-haul.

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October 4, 2021
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Building Resilience in Times of Crisis: Highlights from One Year of USDR’s Health Program

USDR emerged from a surge of our partners’ health-related needs in March 2020. In September 2020, USDR recognized that we had an opportunity to make our individual engagements reusable in order to help communities with their COVID-19 response at scale.

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September 21, 2021
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Post-pandemic, what’s next for USDR?

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July 30, 2021
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What Vaccine Appointment Data Tells Us: Three Major Takeaways from COVID-19

After a year of anticipation, we were witness to a highly complex and decentralized COVID-19 vaccination launch that left many frustrated but, eventually, vaccinated.

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July 20, 2021
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How My Unemployment Experience Fueled A Desire to Help Modernize the Unemployment Insurance Process

As Alyssa Levitz leaves her Technologist in Residence position at U.S. Digital Response, she reflects upon what drove her to volunteer in the first place — and where the journey took her.

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July 14, 2021
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USDR Resource: Our Gitbook on Unemployment Insurance Modernization

USDR’s unemployment insurance team has been hard at work over the past year supporting 10 states with their benefits systems, using design, plain language, communications strategy, software development, and more to get benefits to eligible claimants faster, and make agency employees’ jobs easier.

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