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Social and Behavioral Sciences Team 2016 Annual Report

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level National

State(s) All States

Source National Science and Technology Council

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Health, Finance & Procurement, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Education

The Social and Behavioral Sciences Team 2016 Annual Report highlights SBST's progress implementing the President's directive over the past year in eight key policy areas: promoting retirement security, advancing economic opportunity, improving college access and affordability, responding...

Cleveland’s Greater University Circle Initiative

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Ohio

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Housing

The Greater University Circle Initiative sought to reweave community networks, in part through community engagement, to improve the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods, and to give residents a greater voice and connection to the resources of the anchor institutions. This...

Our Communities are DWP's Future Workforce: The Utility Pre-Craft Trainee Program (UPCT)

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source IBEW Local 18

Policy Areas Economic Justice

The factsheet outlines Los Angeles' Utility Pre-Craft Trainee Program (UPCT), which aimed to place low income and minority city residents in good union utility jobs through an innovative training program....

Successes of Construction Careers

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Los Angeles is currently embarking upon one its largest investments in infrastructure in decades. Through these investments, we will be modernizing our port, fixing our roads, and undertaking the largest expansion of public transit in recent history. These investments, representing...

Rochester’s Market Driven Community Cooperatives Corporation

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development

This report details the city of Rochester’s (NY) project to coordinate and develop worker-owned cooperative businesses in their strategy for comprehensive wealth building. The project had six crucial functions, including engaging in strategic partnerships, ensuring the success of...

Impact Investing and Employee Ownership

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Democracy & Governance

This report explores the existing landscape of employee ownership opportunities for impact investors and highlights emerging models and strategies for inclusive investment in Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and worker cooperatives. The benefits of employee ownership as a strategy...

Four Simple Ways to Apply Behavioral Insights

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level County

State(s) All States

Source The Behavioural Insights Team

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Education

If you want to encourage a behaviour, make it Easy, Attractive, Social and Timely (EAST). These four simple principles for applying behavioural insights are based on the Behavioural Insights Team's own work and the wider academic literature. There is a large body of evidence on what...

The 2018 Kinder Houston Area Survey: Tracking responses to income inequalities, demographic transformations, and threatening storms

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Education, Housing, Public Safety, Energy, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility

This report examines Houston attitudes about flooding, education, the local economy, equal opportunity, immigration, sex and gender, climate change, and trust....

Trends in Smart City Development

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Community Development, Data & Technology

This report examines the meanings and practices associated with the term 'smart cities.' Smart city initiatives involve three components: information and communication technologies (ICTs) that generate and aggregate data; analytical tools which convert that data into usable information;...

Behavioural Insights for Cities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level County

State(s) All States

Source The Behavioural Insights Team

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Democracy & Governance

By 2050, two out of every three people on the planet will live in a city. Urbanization and new ideas go hand in hand; by their very nature, cities have long served to create pockets of innovation, changing and improving the way we live our lives in the process. Historically this process...

Innovation and the City

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for an Urban Future

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Transportation & Mobility

In recent years, cities have become the drivers of government innovation. As urban growth has exploded over the past half century - increasing from a third to nearly 60 percent of world population today - local officials have been forced to solve problems and generate new ideas, policies,...

Guide for Embedding Breakthrough Innovation in Local Government

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source City Accelerator

Policy Areas Energy, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Transportation & Mobility

Government is often thought of as a place where good ideas go to die. We who work in local government know this is not true. We also know, however, that cities' current set of approaches and solutions won't be enough to address our most pressing challenges. We need more and fundamentally...

MOVING LA FORWARD Promoting Construction Careers at Metro

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level City or Town, County

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Transportation & Mobility

This report finds that transit investment would improve air quality and mobility for LA residents, and metro projects with targeted local hiring strategies could create billions of dollars in public economic benefits for the county. It recommends that the city create a construction...

What Works Cities: The City Hall Data Gap

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Bloomberg Philanthropies

Policy Areas Data & Technology

Unlocking the potential of data and evidence to inform decision making is key to ensuring cities thrive in the 21st century. This brief quantifies cities' current practices around the use of data. The analysis is focused on information from the 39 cities visited by What Works Cities...

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