By Mary Carr Lee, Mayors Innovation Project At the Mayors Innovation Project summer meeting, mayors and experts from cities across the country dug into the issue of homelessness, highlighting the urgent need for a shift …
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Strengthening Faith Partnerships: A Tool for City Resilience
By Mary Carr Lee • Mayors Innovation Project Across the country, cities are navigating a complex reality defined by two factors: the increasingly high needs of our most vulnerable residents and the persistent uncertainty of …
Protecting Rights, Strengthening Cities: Upholding Local Democracy
Since January, cities across the nation have been working to interpret a new, uncertain, and often overwhelming federal policy landscape. At the Summer 2025 Meeting, city leaders came together to discuss how they’re protecting the …
Alternative response models improve safety for all by sending the right response at the right time
By Katya Spear, Managing Director, Mayors Innovation Project The panel The Right Response at the Right Time at the MIP Summer Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, brought together mayors, department heads, and national policy experts to …
Hotter Days, Smarter Ways: Innovative Strategies for Heat Resilience
By Quincy Midthun • Mayors Innovation Project Across the country, cities are heating up. Extreme heat not only creates extreme discomfort, it strains the grid and endangers the health and safety of residents, particularly in …
Getting things done: Mayoral Leadership and Culture Creation in Local Government
By Katya Spear, Mayors Innovation Project It’s a well worn adage that culture eats policy for lunch. No matter how long you’ve served in office, how you, your council, and staff work together will drive …
Winter 2025 Innovation Showcase
By Quincy Midthun and Katya Spear, Mayors Innovation Project At the Mayors Innovation Project, our commitment to peer learning means offering avenues to share and replicate good ideas. The MIP Innovation Showcase is a lightning …
Advancing Local Wealth and Opportunity: Key Takeaways from the MIP W25 Panel
By Leslie Vasquez Guzman • Mayors Innovation Project Wealth inequality in the United States has reached unprecedented levels, leaving millions of Americans struggling to achieve economic stability, much less access economic mobility. With stagnant wages …
Data, Financing, and Leadership Solutions for Flood Resilient Infrastructure
By Quincy Midthun, Mayors Innovation Project Climate change continues to pose unprecedented challenges for cities, and the 2024 hurricane season reminded us that flood resilient infrastructure is critical—and increasingly complicated to fund, implement, and manage. …
Leadership and Policy for Welcoming and Inclusive Communities
By Mary Carr Lee, Mayors Innovation Project As President Trump’s deportation plans begin to take shape, refugee and immigrant communities across the country face fear and uncertainty. Of the 30+ executive orders signed in the …