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Follow the Data Podcast: Night of Solidarity – Special Episode in FrenchThe city of Paris conducted its second annual homelessness count in February 2019. Approximately 2,000 people responded to the call for volunteers to conduct the surveys, which take place on the streets of Paris over the course of one night. The city had more volunteers than positions to fill on the count, so the city capitalized by coordinating wi...
BlogGovernment Innovation
All Eyes on the HeartlandBy James Anderson, Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program lead Whether it’s drone-based pizza delivery in San Francisco or cutting-edge cancer advancements in Boston, innovation-related news often focuses on what’s happening in our country’s biggest cities — places with lots of investment, the most people, and an undeniable abundanc...
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Power of Partnerships Q&A with the C40 Climate Leadership GroupThe C40 Climate Leadership Group has been helping cities achieve climate goals for over a decade, and their climate planning tools are now public and available to all.
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Power of Partnerships Q&A with the Institute for Market TransformationIMT’s Julie Hughes says, "Cities are not only being bold and visionary in their commitments; they're being strategic and pragmatic, developing and implementing plans in a data-informed method. It's essential. We can't afford to take steps that we think will achieve our climate goals. We need confidence in our approaches; we need to deliberately cho...
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Follow the Data Podcast: The Innovative Mayor, Greg FischerThis episode of Follow the Data presents a conversation with Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and James Anderson, who leads Government Innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies. Mayor Fischer is serving in his second term and says that to be a good mayor, you need the “head of a CEO, but the heart of a social worker.”
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Follow the Data Podcast Episode 15: The Innovative Mayor, Jan VapaavuoriThe 15th episode of Follow the Data presents a conversation with Helsinki Mayor Jan Vapaavuori and James Anderson, who leads Government Innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies. Mayor Vapaavuori is a former member of the Helsinki City Council and served in Finland’s Parliament for more than a decade. The Mayor took office last June during Bloomberg P...
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The mayor behind Kansas City’s data revolutionBy Sly James, Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri When I became Mayor of Kansas City in 2011, residents were eager to see local government become more efficient, accountable, and responsive to their needs. They didn’t want rhetoric. They wanted facts. And they deserved to see progress. That’s why we started KCStat that December. It’s a data-driven stra...
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324 Mayors Challenge applicants tackle America’s most pressing concernsThere’s no question that cities are confronted with mounting pressures, including everything from income inequality and homelessness to failing infrastructure and climate change. What was less clear was – if presented with the shot at $5 million to help them tackle their top concern – what America’s mayors would target.
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Recasting Free Financial Counseling as a Public ServiceBy Jonathan Mintz, CEO of Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Local leaders know that individual and family financial security isn’t just a personal issue – it affects all of us. Many of us in New York City learned that the hard way in 2008, when the city lost over 100,000 jobs and unemployment went up by 133%. Residents and families were suffer...
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Grant Strategies for Capacity-Constrained CommunitiesBy the end of 2023, the U.S. federal government allocated nearly $1.5 trillion to state, local, and tribal governments in financial assistance programs, primarily through grants. These pieces of legislation created a multitude of competitive grant opportunities for communities of all sizes across the country.