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Philadelphia: Freedom to Grow for Minority Business Enterprises
The city of Philadelphia is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
Innovation Stands the Test of Time
A look back at the three cities that started it all reveals ideas worth stealing and replicating.
Philadelphia Sees Construction Boom and Potential Boon to Minority-Owned Businesses
The City of Philadelphia, PA, a finalist in the fourth round of the City Accelerator, is focused on increasing participation in large contract procurements.
Accelerate This: Getting the Assistance Seniors Deserve
How They Did It: Philadelphia
Podcast: Inspiring, Enabling, and Teaching Teams to Become Public Entrepreneurs
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.
Podcast: Building a New Urban Practice, City by City
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.
Podcast: A People-Centric Approach to Producing Impact for Low-Income Residents
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.
Lessons From the Field for and by Civic Innovation Teams
The experience of Louisville, Nashville, and Philadelphia can inform the work of innovation teams in your city.
A Conversation With Mayors on Making Innovation Stick
Mayors from the City Accelerator's first cohort reflect on the changes underway in their cities.
Philadelphia’s Common Sense Approach to Helping the Working Poor
Can changing how you address an envelope improve communication with your constituents? Philadelphia aimed to find out.
Cities Build Up Innovation to Tackle Breakdown in Urban Infrastructure
In the City Accelerator's new Cohort III, cities will disrupt old ways of planning, prioritizing and budgeting for infrastructure projects.
Change in Local Government: Moving Beyond Good Intentions
Programs to help the poor mean nothing if they don't work.
A Philanthropic Nudge for Civic Innovation
Cities are doing it for themselves but not by themselves.
3 Ways Cities Can Promote Innovation Up and Down the Food Chain
Change in government requires empowering and energizing its employees.
A Year in the Life of the City Accelerator
It's time for a recap and review of this philanthropic, collaborative startup that has put down roots in eight cities so far.
Mayors Come and Go, But Good Ideas Should Stick
Upcoming elections will test the sustainability of mayors’ innovation initiatives.
311: A New Use for a Not-So-New Tool
Sometimes engaging citizens is as simple as solving their problems.
Want to Help People in Poverty? Meet Them Where They Are
To be successful in reaching the poor, common-sense communication often prevails.
An Interactive Gathering for City Leaders
The convening focuses on solving urban problems through synergy and innovation.
Breaking Through Barriers to Innovation in Local Government
Through the City Accelerator, Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., and Philadelphia are adapting how they do business in order to produce materially different results.
New Implementation Guide for Local Government Innovation
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.
4 Key Challenges Facing Local Government Innovators
The selection process for the City Accelerator surfaced the tensions that make it difficult to make innovation a regular practice.
Introducing the City Accelerator's First Cohort
Louisville, Nashville and Philadelphia move forward with anti-poverty plans.
Similarities among the City Accelerator's Top 3 Plans
Each cities' innovative plan to help low-income residents seems so different at first glance.
5 Themes in City Poverty Plans
City Accelerator finalists have commonalities in the problems they face and their proposed solutions.
A Tale of Denver and Philadelphia's Anti-Poverty Plans
Philadelphia and Denver are plotting different ways for their low-income residents to get out of poverty.
Harnessing innovation for Low-Income Communities in Philadelphia
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.