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Now is the time to redefine public safety: Building a comprehensive ecosystem to identify, engage, and support those most at risk

Building a comprehensive ecosystem to identify, engage, and support those most at risk

Good Ideas for Cities: Building trust through fiscal transparency

Best practices for the EV fleet transition

Good Ideas for Cities: Electrify Your City Fleet

Best practices for the EV fleet transition

Virtual event: Mayors Roundtable on Alternative Response & Reimagining Policing

This event will present information on alternative response models informed by NYU's extensive research on cities doing this work across the country, including Albuquerque, NM and Brooklyn Park, MN.

Petaluma’s Youth Plant Trees to Reduce Air Toxics

City parks are a public asset that deliver co-benefits in public health and climate change mitigation. Ensuring their safety, accessibility, and sustained funding is critical work.

Deep engagement informs city programs and spaces in Rochester, MN

This week, we are featuring member city Rochester, MN’s work to make community co-design a central approach to developing city spaces and programs. Rochester is bringing co-design into city procedures, beginning with a Discovery Walk that connects several of the city’s key public spaces. Mayor Kim Norton sees promise in using the co-design approach to …

Investing in your council relationships to improve outcomes

Council relationships aren't always easy. When councils and mayors work well together, the positive impacts can be far reaching; but when strained, important city work can stall.

Madison Combines Lead and Mold Abatement with Energy Efficiency Programs

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 our grant recipients, Madison, WI.

Event: Women Mayors Network Session on Navigating the Isms

This mayors-only interactive session created exclusively for the Women Mayors Network offers space for releasing and healing from the daily challenges of experiencing racism, heterosexism, and sexism and strategies for building shared accountability for disrupting these isms.

Member City Spotlight: Welcoming Immigrants in Lincoln, NE

This week, we are featuring one of our member cities, Lincoln, NE. Mayor Gaylor Baird believes that city government, at its best, helps people coexist and reach their full human potential.