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Year: 2021

Food Equity Advisors in Salt Lake City

Posted on December 20, 2021

Mayor Mendenhall and seven of the inaugural Salt Lake City Resident Food Equity Advisors, with the project consultant. The Mayors Innovation Project, in partnership with Healthy Babies Bright Futures, provided grants to cities across the country …

Posted in Healthy Babies, Program Announcements, Uncategorized

Equity in Leadership: The 2021 New Mayors Cohort

Posted on December 16, 2021

Mayors are on the front lines of our community’s most daunting challenges. In the last two years alone, mayors have been managing multiple crises in their cities — the COVID pandemic, racial justice uprisings, climate …

Posted in New Mayors, Program Announcements, Uncategorized

Inclusive Design in Cities

Posted on November 16, 2021

In September we launched the first-ever Mayors Innovative Design Cohort as a partnership with the American Institute of Architects. This project is pairing three mayors (& city staff) to work with an architect team to …

Posted in Mayors Innovative Design Cohort, Program Announcements

Ensuring Local Reproductive Freedom

Posted on November 11, 2021

Friday, December 3 10:30am PT/11:30am MT/12:30pm CT/1:30pm ET A Mayors-exclusive Event Register Now Cities play a crucial role in ensuring that people can control their reproductive and sexual lives, choose whether and when to become …

Posted in Meetings, Uncategorized, Virtual Content

Save the Dates: Winter 2022 Meeting

Posted on November 9, 2021

We’re excited to announce that, based on overwhelming feedback from our mayors, we will be meeting in person this January! Winter 2022 Meeting Friday, January 21 – Saturday, January 22, 2022 in Washington, DC Registration, …

Posted in Meetings, News, Program Announcements

Event: Welcoming Afghan Refugees & Beyond

Posted on October 8, 2021

Welcoming Afghan Refugees & Beyond: A Mayors-only Roundtable Wednesday, October 27 1pm PT/2pm MT/3pm CT/4pm ET Length: 45 minutes Register Now We all watched the upsetting footage out of Afghanistan in August as refugees fled …

Posted in Meetings, Uncategorized, Virtual Content

Mayors Innovative Design Cohort Kicks Off

Posted on October 5, 2021

The Mayors Innovative Design Cohort—a partnership with The American Institute of Architects—kicked off last month with a packed virtual room of architects, mayors and 20+ city staff from Eastpointe, MI, Clarksville, TN, and Blacksburg, VA.  …

Posted in Mayors Innovative Design Cohort, News, Program Announcements, Uncategorized

Event: Sweeping Water Reforms in Toledo

Posted on September 29, 2021

In partnership with the Water Center at Penn, this series spotlights challenges and solutions on water affordability. We invite local utility and city leaders that are striving to provide access to safe and affordable drinking and …

Posted in Program Announcements, Water

Lessons & Opportunities for Local Leaders in New York

Posted on September 27, 2021

NYS Affordability Academy Launches Next Week! Maintaining affordable, safe, and reliable water systems is one way mayors can address disparities in their community. But what does your city have control over, and where do you …

Posted in Uncategorized, Water

Phoenix Plants Hedges to Reduce Air Pollution Exposure for Kids

Posted on September 22, 2021

The Mayors Innovation Project, in partnership with Healthy Babies Bright Futures, provided grants to cities across the country to work towards better health outcomes for children. We are excited to share the story of one of …

Posted in Healthy Babies
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