A look back at the three cities that started it all reveals ideas worth stealing and replicating.
How Nashville Metro pivoted toward the future
The experience of Louisville, Nashville, and Philadelphia can inform the work of innovation teams in your city.
How They Did It: Nashville
A pop-up podcast recorded with a live audience that captures key learnings from the cities that learned them - detailed here with a full transcript.
A pop-up podcast recorded with a live audience that captures key learnings from the cities that learned them - detailed here with a full transcript.
A pop-up podcast recorded with a live audience that captures key learnings from the cities that learned them - detailed here with a full transcript.
A special (but simple) bus pass helps homeless population get to shelter in extreme weather.
Mayors from the City Accelerator's first cohort reflect on the changes underway in their cities.
Cities are doing it for themselves but not by themselves.
Change in government requires empowering and energizing its employees.
Regional planning shows communities can be better, together.
It's time for a recap and review of this philanthropic, collaborative startup that has put down roots in eight cities so far.
Politics is a messy business, but fierce competition can fuel innovation.
Upcoming elections will test the sustainability of mayors’ innovation initiatives.
Nashville's co-chief innovation officer on the city's key takeaways from the City Accelerator.
City leaders spark innovation in creative ways in this country music community.
The Governing Summit in Louisville, Ky., provided unique ways for participants to share ideas.
Archive of Live Stream and Live Blog from Louisville
The convening focuses on solving urban problems through synergy and innovation.
Through the City Accelerator, Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., and Philadelphia are adapting how they do business in order to produce materially different results.
A new City Accelerator guide addresses some of the key barriers to innovation in local government and provides a path forward for cities to follow.
The City Accelerator communities are creating an environment of ingenuity.
The selection process for the City Accelerator surfaced the tensions that make it difficult to make innovation a regular practice.
Louisville, Nashville and Philadelphia move forward with anti-poverty plans.
Each cities' innovative plan to help low-income residents seems so different at first glance.
City Accelerator finalists have commonalities in the problems they face and their proposed solutions.
San Jose and Nashville are planning to tap the talents of citizens for innovative solutions to their problems with poverty.
The City of Nashville, a finalist in the inaugural round of the City Accelerator, is focused on innovations to help alleviate poverty.