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The Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge encourages cities to generate bold new ideas that solve urban challenges and improve city life – and have the potential to spread.
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Challenges of Today, Ideas for Tomorrow
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February 25 2014 Project on Municipal Innovation This post originally appeared on Living Cities. Last month, Living Cities and the Ash Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School hosted the eleventh convening of the Project on Municipal Innovation (PMI) in...
How a Good Idea Can Survive a Mayoral Transition
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October 23, 2015 Mayors Challenge This post originally appeared on Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. The moment that a new mayor takes office is often the moment that promising initiatives meet their demise. Changes in...
The Most Important Power That a Mayor Has
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This article originally appeared in Governing Magazine. The actual authority of mayors derives from state laws and local charters. However, their ability to accomplish broad goals or take on complex or “wicked” problems depends in large part on their...
4 Key Challenges Facing Local Government Innovators
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November 20, 2014 Project on Municipal Innovation This post originally appeared on the City Accelerator blog on Governing.com. It was written by Nigel Jacob, the urban technologist-in-residence at Living Cities. On September 4th, the Citi Foundation and...
Why Every Mayor Should Consider Launching a Policy Lab
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January 10, 2018 Civic Data This post originally appeared on Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. You might have heard recently about a large study of body-worn police cameras in Washington, D.C,. that shed new light on the...
Exclusive: Advancing Educational Attainment and Future-Proofing Policies with Mayor Monroe Nichols and Mayor Libby Schaaf
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At a recent event held at Harvard University, the current Mayor of Tulsa Monroe Nichols and former Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf spoke to chiefs of staff and deputy mayors of 35 large US cities, and we're releasing a bonus question and answer session...
Meeting the Challenge of Investing Public Money Wisely, Quickly, and Efficiently
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May 9, 2022 City Administration This article originally appeared in Governing Magazine. Cities are at an important inflection point: They are still responding to COVID-19 while also trying to repair damage from centuries of racially driven policies, all...
How Mayors Can Address Digital Disparities
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March 21, 2022 Equity Local government officials – and residents – have long seen how the digital divide worsens racial and economic divides in their communities; the COVID pandemic has only brought greater attention to this issue. K-12 students were...
What Mayors Need to Know About SNAP
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In this episode, host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Dr. Sara Naomi Bleich, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former USDA Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity. Dr. Bleich breaks down major recent changes to the...
Map of the Month: Who Votes for Mayor?
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Map of the Month: Who Votes for Mayor? City: 50 cities across the U.S. Year Published: 2016 Goal: Who Votes for Mayor? seeks to enhance understanding of the distribution of voter turnout in cities across the U.S. in order to inform policies to improve...