Christine Hamilton-Pennell discusses how communities can develop an entrepreneurship support system that focuses on growth-oriented small businesses as a way to drive greater economic growth. Hamilton-Pennell will serve as presenter and facilitator for a Leadership Training Seminar on this topic at the Congress of Cities and Exposition on November 29 in Boston, MA.
Neal Peirce discusses the notion that today's young adults in their 20s and 30s are incubating a value set of sharing rather than ownership. He argues that a sharing economy is a powerful new model and especially approriate to cities.
If a city will have representatives at the 2012 Congress of Cities and Exposition, the city must designate a voting delegate and an alternate in order to have a vote in NLC's Annual Business Meeting, which will take place Saturday, December 1 in Boston.
With support from Lumina Foundation, NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families is launching the second phase of an initiative to help cities boost local college completion rates.
NLC has announced the 10 selected Solution Theater workshops at the upcoming 2012 Congress of Cities and Exposition in Boston, November 28-December 1. Topics for the sponsored educational sessions range from waste reduction solutions to health and wellness to innovative service delivery through public-private collaborations.
The National League of Cities commemorates the historic 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, while calling on the country to build on the progress made in the last four decades.
NLC is reaching out to cities and towns interested in or currently utilizing the EPA Integrated Municipal Stormwater and Wastewater Planning Approach Framework. By working with cities and towns to document successes, challenges, and experiences they face when implementing the Framework, NLC aims to collect best practices and inform cities that wish to take a similar approach.
Mayor Chris Coleman of St. Paul, MN, led several city officials from across the country to urge the National Hockey League owners and players to come together and quickly resolve the current lockout.
Neal Peirce discusses where in the world -- literally -- affordable, developable land will be found to house and service the stunning population growth of world cities, now estimated to rise from 3.6 billion souls today to a projected 6.3 billion by 2050.
As the culmination of a two-year initiative focused on supporting city efforts to increase local college completion rates, NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families has published a series of three municipal action guides on postsecondary educational success with support from Lumina Foundation.
