A look back at the three cities that started it all reveals ideas worth stealing and replicating.
The City of Philadelphia, PA, a finalist in the fourth round of the City Accelerator, is focused on increasing participation in large contract procurements.
How They Did It: Philadelphia
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.
The experience of Louisville, Nashville, and Philadelphia can inform the work of innovation teams in your city.
Mayors from the City Accelerator's first cohort reflect on the changes underway in their cities.
Can changing how you address an envelope improve communication with your constituents? Philadelphia aimed to find out.
In the City Accelerator's new Cohort III, cities will disrupt old ways of planning, prioritizing and budgeting for infrastructure projects.
Programs to help the poor mean nothing if they don't work.
Cities are doing it for themselves but not by themselves.
Change in government requires empowering and energizing its employees.
It's time for a recap and review of this philanthropic, collaborative startup that has put down roots in eight cities so far.
Upcoming elections will test the sustainability of mayors’ innovation initiatives.
Sometimes engaging citizens is as simple as solving their problems.
To be successful in reaching the poor, common-sense communication often prevails.
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 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.
Philadelphia and Denver are plotting different ways for their low-income residents to get out of poverty.
The City of Philadelphia, a finalist in the inaugural round of the City Accelerator, is focused on putting money back in the pockets of low-income residents.