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Mayors Innovation Project
The Mayors Innovation Project (MIP) is a learning network among American mayors committed to “high road” policy and governance: shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, efficient democratic government.
Our next meeting will be January 21-22, 2011 in Washington DC. Stay tuned for details!
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Watch video clips of mayors talking about issues of interest to their city and cities across the country.
The Mayors Innovation Project (MIP) is a learning network among American mayors committed to “high road” policy and governance: shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, efficient democratic government.
MIP participants believe that building high road cities and metropolitan regions is both good for their residents and a key way to move the country to the high road nationally. They also believe that, despite currently adverse federal policy, cities have enormous untapped assets and political strengths that can be organized better now. Already a leading source of policy innovation, cities can do more now to improve education and lifelong learning, promote high road economic and workforce development effort, expand housing and transit availability, develop the opportunities of the clean energy economy while combating climate change, and model advanced government administration. MIP exists to help its member participants to lead by example, share their experiences with peers, and make this argument for cities nationally.
MIP helps its affiliated cities realize their promise through semi-annual meetings and ongoing connection to technical assistance. The meetings offer a unique opportunity for mayors and top staff to engage in sustained, peer-to-peer exchange on issues of concern to them. Each meeting is devoted to three or four big topics, selected in advance by the MIP steering committee of mayors. Experts are invited in for those topics, and mayors and top staff spend two days in intense informal discussion of them. After they go home, MIP connects interested mayors and staff to technical assistance they seek in implementing changes. We also run a moderated listserve alerting MIP cities to new developments and opportunities nationally.
This is work has been funded in part by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Bikes Belong Coalition. We gratefully acknowledge their support but wish to make clear that materials presented here represent the views of the respective authors.
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