Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative
The Citi Foundation and Living Cities today announced that Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle will receive support to adopt leading practices in community engagement through the City Accelerator, a $3 million initiative to advance innovation in local government. Over the next 18 months, participating cities will apply innovative approaches to enhance the ways in which cities engage with their citizens on important local issues such as city planning, entrepreneurship and healthcare. In addition to addressing these specific issues, participating cities will seek to integrate these approaches into their daily operations, so that enhanced engagement becomes course-of-business. As part of the City Accelerator initiative, each city will receive up to $170,000 in financial and in-kind support to enable this work....