A peer learning network for mayors and city leaders.
We’re excited to announce that, based on overwhelming feedback from our mayors, we will be meeting in person this January! Winter 2022 Meeting Friday, January 21 – Saturday, January 22, 2022 in Washington, DC Registration, agenda & topics coming very soon! The Winter Meeting is a two-day event for mayors to connect with peers in …
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 …
The Mayors Innovative Design Cohort—a partnership with The American Institute of Architects—kicked off last month with a packed virtual room of architects, mayors and 20+ city staff from Eastpointe, MI, Clarksville, TN, and Blacksburg, VA. These three winning cities were paired with their architect teams for the first time to discuss barriers, opportunities, and next …
In partnership with the Water Center at Penn, this series spotlights challenges and solutions on water affordability. We invite local utility and city leaders that are striving to provide access to safe and affordable drinking and waste water to attend. Learn more about our water affordability program here. Water Affordability Community of Practice Thursday, October 21, …
NYS Affordability Academy Launches Next Week! Maintaining affordable, safe, and reliable water systems is one way mayors can address disparities in their community. But what does your city have control over, and where do you even start? In preparation for the New York Water Academy launching next week, our partners at The Water Center at …
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, Phoenix, AZ. By Jennifer Vanos, PhD Many schoolyards are underutilized spaces and have much more to offer …
Thanks to our partnership with The Water Center at Penn via our Water Affordability Program, we’ve been honored to work with utility and city leaders across the country, helping them reduce operational inefficiencies and keep water affordable. Since we started this work, several cities have launched (or are about to launch) affordability programs. Water systems …
In honor of Welcoming America’s Welcoming Week, we are featuring one of our member cities—Beaverton, OR—that has made supporting immigrant communities a priority. Welcoming Week is a time when a chorus of thousands—in communities large and small, rural and urban—celebrate the benefits of an inclusive society and deepen their commitment to creating places that are …
In partnership with: Cities across the country are struggling to maintain and update infrastructure while keeping water affordable, particularly for their most vulnerable households. Thanks in part to our Water Affordability program—co-hosted by the Water Center at Penn—utilities are leading the way and offering a critical template that other cities/utilities can replicate. New …
A partnership of The American Institute of Architects and Mayors Innovation Project How can mayors utilize architects to build zero-carbon, resilient, healthy, and equitable cities? Today we are excited to announce the three winning cities that are about to find out: Eastpointe, MI; Clarksville, TN; and Blacksburg, VA. These cities will have the opportunity to …
