Cities across the country are struggling to maintain and update infrastructure while keeping water affordable, particularly for their most vulnerable households. Through our Water Affordability Academies, co-hosted by the Water Center at Penn and the …
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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. …
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.
Announcing the Mayors Innovative Design Cohort
We are excited to launch a partnership with The American Institute of Architects (AIA) to help mayors build zero-carbon, resilient, healthy, and equitable cities! We are offering 3 cities the opportunity to partner with an …
Measuring Accessibility: A Guide for City Practitioners
Get the Report Since 1956, the US has spent $10 trillion on highways—more than twice the cost of transit, intercity rail, aviation, and ports combined. And for that astronomical sum we have 2.9 million deaths; …
Applications Open: Grants to Improve Children’s Health
We invite concise proposals from US cities to participate in this grant program designed to scale up pilot projects and share this learning with other cities.
Guaranteed Income: Evidence & Opportunity in Cities
Join us for a roundtable discussion, Guaranteed Income: Evidence and Opportunities in Cities. This session is hosted in partnership with Mayors for a Guaranteed Income.
Policing, COVID & Sexism: How women mayors tackled 2020
In January, we celebrated one year since the launch of the Women Mayors Network. In close partnership with Equity Agenda, this project advances our work to build and sustain peer networks and to provide new …
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.