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. …
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Partnering in Glass City: How Toledo is Protecting its Most Vulnerable Residents
Cities across the country are struggling to maintain and update infrastructure while keeping water affordable, particularly for their most vulnerable households. Thanks in part to our Water Affordability program—co-organized by The Water Center at Penn—utilities …
Event: Refining your Governance & Partnership Strategy
Illuminating Financial Trends: A Training for Mayors Wednesday, July 21 9am PST/10am MST/11am CST/12pm EST This training is specifically framed and created for mayors, but we also welcome finance directors and mayors’ chiefs of staff. …
American Rescue Plan: How should mayors proceed?
This guest blog post is from Ralph Garboushian at CapitalEdge. Financially battered cities celebrated the March enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act (PL 117-6) and its $350 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Relief …
Water Affordability in Milwaukee
In partnership with the Water Center at Penn, our Water Affordability Community of Practice (COP) spotlights best practices on challenges and solutions related to water affordability, providing ample time for questions and informal discussion among peers. …
2021 Healthy Babies Initiative Grant Recipients Announced
Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF) and the Mayors Innovation Project (MIP) are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2021 Healthy Babies Initiative.
Register Now: 2021 New Mayors Cohort
We are excited to announce the dates for the 2021 New Mayors Cohort! The Cohort will offer invited mayors in their first term the opportunity to join a small peer group from around the US, …
Making an Impact in 2020
Through this year’s struggles, our organizational priorities remained the same—to provide mayors and city leaders with peer learning experiences and cutting-edge resources to advance equity, sustainability, and democracy in cities. We are proud to have engaged over 100 cities from around the US in our work this year.
New Resources for Achieving Water Affordability
In the coming months, we are providing support for cities through a new Community of Practice, a blog series, and the second cohort of our Water Affordability Academy. This effort will provide critical perspectives for local elected officials and for water utility leaders and staff.
Reducing Neurotoxic Exposure in Children in San Francisco, CA
The Mayors Innovation Project, partnered 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 our grant recipients, San Francisco, CA.