Category: Program Announcements

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 architect to tackle a local renovation, reuse or retrofit challenge that aims to reduce environmental impact and equitably serve the …

Measuring Accessibility: A Guide for City Practitioners

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; crumbling streets and bridges; growing highway congestion; and the largest contributor of climate pollution.  This is in large part due to our focus …

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 tools for mayors to enact their agendas.  Women mayors have consistently expressed the need to us for a space where …

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.