News & Announcements

Year in Review 2025

Advancing mayoral ambition and public innovation in 2025

Bloomberg Cities Network

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Cities need the freedom and capacity to experiment

Governing

A woman wearing a white and lime green AgriNurture polo shirt works on a tablet at a busy distribution center. Her workstation is surrounded by green crates, produce, and paperwork, with other workers visible in the background.

Butuan's AgriBOOST records an increase of 88% in vegetable production

Philippine Information Agency

Ideas Camp 08/01/25

How to transform a core city service

Bloomberg Cities Network

Year in Review 2024

The state of cities and the future of the field: advancing mayoral ambition and public innovation in 2024

Bloomberg Cities Network

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Bloomberg Philanthropies launches its largest Mayors Challenge ever to inspire city leaders globally

AP News

Global Mayors Challenge in the News: Paterson, New Jersey, USA

"I'm tired of being in the streets." This critical Paterson program is making a difference

North Jersey

Global Mayors Challenge In the News: Bogota, Colombia

A sense of optimism and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is giving respect to unpaid careers

The Guardian

Global Mayors Challenge in the News: Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Less than 1 percent of construction jobs go to women of color in this city

The 19th

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Using technology to monitor Freetown's pioneering tree-planting initiative

RE: Sustainable Markets Initiative

A teacher speaking to a group of students at a round table.

Vilnius, a city becomes an open-air classroom

World Crunch

Global Mayors Challenge in Hermosillo, Mexico

Lessons from the winning cities in the Global Mayors Challenge

Bloomberg