We curate smart ideas, practices, and stories; connect cross-sector CEOs, changemakers, and disrupters; and catalyze collaborative change for city progress and success. We’re a cutting-edge voice for making cities more connected, innovative, and talented and investing in your city’s distinctive assets.

City Vitals

CityVitals, developed by Portland-based economist Joseph Cortright in partnership with CEOs for Cities, lays out the rationale for the things cities must be really good at doing today and a new set of metrics, 20 in all, to measure their progress.

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The Talent Dividend

The Talent Dividend is part of CEOs for Cities latest research on the City Dividends, which calculates the monetary value to cities and the nation of increasing college attainment rates by one percentage point.

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Change by Us

Change By Us is the City’s new website for helping residents connect online and take action toward creating a greener, greater New York. It's a central place for sharing those ideas, creating or joining a project with similar goals and discovering resources from city agencies and community-based organizations.

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GOOD Ideas for Cities

GOOD Ideas for Cities taps creative problem solvers to tackle real urban challenges and present the solutions at live events across the country.

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What We’re Working On: City VitalsThe Talent DividendChange By UsGOOD Ideas for Cities

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THE BIG GOAL: To increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by the year 2025.

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GOOD and CEOs for Cities worked in partnership with a generous grant from ArtPlace to publish a toolkit that will allow anyone who wants to make a difference in their community to launch a GOOD Ideas for Cities initiative locally. Click above to download and start making a difference in your city! 

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City Vitals 2.0

We are proud to announce the release of City Vitals 2.0, our groundbreaking report on benchmarking city and regional economic performance.  The entire report will be made available to our partnership network and will be available for purchase for non-members in the coming weeks. The preview is available now!

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Posted by Tara Sturm on May 20, 2013

There are many great books you could use to kick off your summer reading—and those of you interested in urban design may be excited to get your hands on Pedestrian and Transit-Oriented…

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Matchmaking is a service often associated to websites such as E-Harmony, but by harnessing the power of crowdsourcing and social platforms in the urban sectors, these necessary resources can come into reach (and our communities can certainly benefit from finding a little bit of love). Whether connecting with someone on ioby to fund a local environmental project, Change By Us to create a link between resident and leader, or matching spaces with creative ideas on ArtHERE to crowdsource revitalization, there are an increasing number of tools that help to realize the visions we previously thought impossible by simply creating connections."

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