20 Ideas that Could Change our Cities

Posted by on December 10, 2012

20 Ideas that Could Change our Cities

Bloomberg Philanthropies have selected 20 finalists in the Mayors Challenge — a boot camp style competition where the winner will receive $5 million to invest in their idea; four runners up will receive $1 million each. Winners are chosen based upon the idea’s vision, potential impact, ability to be implemented and replicability potential. We take a deeper look at three of the cities: Milwaukee’s Home Gr/Own, San Francisco’s City Job Works, and Syracuse’s International Village. These ideas could have a profound effect in inner city communities.  Read more.

http://www.icic.org/connection/blog-entry/blog-20-ideas-that-could-change-our-cities

[Ed note: Philadelphia is in the running.]


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