Building Community Capacity for Federal Funds: How Municipalities Can Help
November 14, 2022
A recent workshop offered by Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Federal Assistance e311 program, in collaboration with the U.S. Conference of Mayors, highlighted these challenges and proposed strategies local jurisdictions can deploy to overcome them. Fortunately, current federal programs are encouraging municipal leadership to rethink the status quo and increase meaningful collaboration. Â
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U.S. mayors get ready to leverage new transportation grants
October 26, 2022
As part of a set of supports for U.S. cities and towns called the Local Infrastructure Hub, Bloomberg Philanthropies convened nearly 200 mayors and local leaders to discuss how to address these problems and more with funding from the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. They heard from key Biden administration officials about how to win grants from a new federal program aimed at upgrading transportation systems. And they learned how three mayors from very different U.S. cities and towns are angling for the money.
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Lasting Local Impact from UN Climate Conference COP26
October 21, 2022
As we look to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, taking place in Egypt in just over two weeks, we also are reflecting on the legacy of COP26 in Glasgow.
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Follow the Data Podcast: How Central America’s Largest City is Going Digital
October 21, 2022
On this episode, Jim Anderson, who leads the Government Innovation program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo of Mexico City discuss how city leaders can lead digital transformations in their municipalities to make sure that everyone has access to the rights that they deserve as citizens, through digital services, connectivity, and direct access to information or governmental services.
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Video: Innovations Addressing Our Most Pressing Environmental Challenges
October 7, 2022
In the battle against climate change, success requires global collaboration and big, bold, new ideas – together, we can save the planet.
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Amsterdam Shows Where ‘Digital Urban Planning’ is Headed
October 5, 2022
With cutting-edge initiatives on smart mobility, reducing waste, artificial intelligence, and more, Amsterdam City Hall has a worldwide reputation as a leader in public-sector innovation. That’s why the Bloomberg CityLab summit will be held in Amsterdam next week. It’s the perfect place for global mayors, city innovators, business leaders, urban experts, artists, and activists to learn, share, and be inspired to find new ways of tackling their cities’ toughest challenges.
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How Data Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Divide
September 15, 2022
Launched by our Greenwood Initiative, the Black Wealth Data Center’s new Racial Wealth Equity Database will serve as a resource to empower leaders who are working to ensure that data can be used to drive solutions for racial wealth equity.
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Follow the Data Podcast: Providing Greater Access to Racial Wealth Equity Data
September 15, 2022
On this episode of Follow the Data, Garnesha Ezediaro, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Greenwood Initiative, is joined by Natalie Evans Harris, the Executive Director of the Black Wealth Data Center, who brings nearly 20 years of experience advancing the public sector’s strategic use of data, and Gary Cunningham, President and CEO of Prosperity Now.
They discuss how the Black Wealth Data Center will give leaders access to tools and data they need to speed up progress towards increasing Black wealth, what types of data people will be able to access on site, the importance of data in the fight for racial wealth equity, and more.
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Leading confidently with data: 3 steps for every city leader
September 7, 2022
We’re doubling down on our work with mayors in the new Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance. The program’s aim is to identify 100 cities across North, Central, and South America that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data, and enable their top leaders to chart the next frontier of public-sector data practice.
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4 ways cities are funding climate action
August 24, 2022
When President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, city leaders heralded the new law’s massive investment in addressing climate change, including billions of federal dollars municipalities can tap into for climate projects. Yet in some ways, the feds were just catching up to what cities have been doing on their own for years. City leaders were already moving urgently to slash greenhouse-gas emissions and find ways to pay for it when federal support was scarce.
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