Open Society Foundations Funds the Mayor Exchange to Offer Help to Puerto Rico
A new network of local leaders is stepping in to provide aid and support from cities on the mainland to decimated localities in Puerto Rico.
Called the Mayor Exchange and backed by funding from the Open Society Foundations, the group includes mainland mayors with experience in disaster recovery who can offer help to their counterparts on the island.
Over the coming weeks, 40 mayors will visit Puerto Rico from places like Chicago, Denver, Houston, New Haven, Conn., Philadelphia, Miami, New Orleans and Tampa. They'll assist on everything from applying for and administering Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, to planning the massive projects to repair and rebuild the island, to navigating the federal power structure in Washington....