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Mayors Innovation Project
Winter Meeting
Urban Advantage: The Strength of Cities in a Tough Economy
January 15-16, 2009
SEIU Headquarters
Washington, DC
R.S.V.P. online
Book your hotel room now! With the inauguration on January 20th, rooms will go fast. Beacon Hotel
800.821.4367
Mention MIP to get a special reduced rate.
Visit our Meetings page for more information on the Winter 2009 meeting. In addition, you can view presentations and the online briefing book from our Summer 2008 meeting.
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.
For information on our next meeting, please e-mail us at or call us at 608-262-5387.
This is work is 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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