Category: Uncategorized

Event: The Discourse of Public Work

Join us for a discussion amongst mayors and city leaders on how to foster and support productive mayor-council relationships.

Highlights from the 2022 Summer Meeting

Our first in person summer convening since 2019, the Mayors Innovation Project Summer 2022 Annual Meeting was held August 4-6 in Tacoma, WA.

Join us: Abortion Access Briefing exclusively for mayors

Wednesday, July 13th 12 ET/11 CT/10 MT/9 PT Abortion Access Briefing, exclusively for city leaders and their trusted staff Join us for an exclusive briefing and discussion for and amongst mayors, focused on city responses to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe vs. Wade. We’ll be joined by Julie Rodriguez, White House Office …

An Assault on Local Democracy

New findings show that, although political violence* against mayors is common, women mayors and mayors of color face more frequent and acute incidents of political violence.

Join us: May is for Mayor Safety

As a network of mayors, we hear firsthand of the political violence that local leaders face. In May, we are releasing new findings that show the rise in threats and harassment to US mayors and their troubling impacts on democracy and offering tools to help mayors manage their online and physical risks. An Assault on …

Highlights from the 2022 Winter Meeting

Above: Former Mayor Chasity Wells-Armstrong (Kankakee, IL) and Mayor Cassie Franklin (Everett, WA) After a two year hiatus, we were thrilled to host our 2022 Winter Meeting in person in Washington, DC. Mayors from around the country gathered to share best practices on topics ranging from police reform to federal infrastructure. View some highlights below: Child …

Food Equity Advisors in Salt Lake City

Mayor Mendenhall and seven of the inaugural Salt Lake City Resident Food Equity Advisors, with the project consultant. 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 …

Equity in Leadership: The 2021 New Mayors Cohort

Mayors are on the front lines of our community’s most daunting challenges. In the last two years alone, mayors have been managing multiple crises in their cities — the COVID pandemic, racial justice uprisings, climate disasters, and an unprecedented number of houseless residents. As a result, there has been an urgent demand for peer connection …

Ensuring Local Reproductive Freedom

Friday, December 3 10:30am PT/11:30am MT/12:30pm CT/1:30pm ET A Mayors-exclusive Event Cities play a crucial role in ensuring that people can control their reproductive and sexual lives, choose whether and when to become parents, and get the support they need to raise their families. The Local Reproductive Freedom Index—just released—evaluates cities and counties on 34 …

Event: Welcoming Afghan Refugees & Beyond

Welcoming Afghan Refugees & Beyond: A Mayors-only Roundtable Wednesday, October 27 1pm PT/2pm MT/3pm CT/4pm ET Length: 45 minutes We all watched the upsetting footage out of Afghanistan in August as refugees fled the country. Since then there has been an outpouring of support from the American public to help, but more needs to be …