Philadelphia is among the 20 cities from across the country to be named a finalist in the Mayors Challenge. In Spring, Bloomberg Philanthropies will announce the winning team, which will receive $5 million to jumpstart its idea; four other teams will each receive $1 million.
In Houston, the Challenge has brought to the fore a plan to streamline waste diversion by developing the first total material resource recovery facility in the nation. San Francisco’s project seeks to link unemployed individuals with city government projects that lack personnel to close the employment gap throughout the city. Chicago’s plan calls for the deployment of an open-source analytics platform that will help streamline decision-making processes in city services, while Philadelphia focuses on developing public-private partnerships to tackle urban issues.
Original source: National Geographic's City Solutions blog
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