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equity budgeting

Budgeting & Equity

How city budgets can help equity as well as fiscal health

Hermosillo, Mexico

Mayors Challenge

Photo essay: When residents are co-creators, ideas get better

Devta Kidd, the Director of Innovation, in the Office of the Mayor in Bloomington, Ind.

Innovator of the Week

Using innovation to give residents 'full agency'

Denver Air Quality

Climate Change and Sustainability

How Denver is empowering students to take action on air quality

A photo of a United States Treasury "Relief Program" check resting on an American Flag.

Data

How to use federal aid to bolster City Hall’s innovation capacity

Innovator of the Week

Building a sandbox for innovation

Innovator of the Week

Training pays off for Chillicothe Mayor

A collection of skyline photos from the 16 cities that have earned What Works Cities Certification for the first time

Data-Driven Management

5 ways that Certified cities are leading with data

photo showing the skyline of Helsinki, Finland

Co-creation

What a Helsinki competition can teach all idea-seeking cities

Clockwise: Mayor Femke Halsema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Mayor Claudia López (Bogotá, Colombia), Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum (Mexico City, Mexico), Muriel Bowser (Washington, DC), Mayor Dagur Eggertsson (Reykjavík, Iceland), and Mayor London Breed (San Francisco, California)

Innovation Teams

Leadership in the digital age

Several hands holding a cluster of various colored homes in a circular shape

Data-Driven Management

Fighting displacement with data

Innovator of the Week

Leveraging data to drive equity and engagement