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A New Way to Manage Rising Health Care Costs: Prevent+Protect

Census

Improve Your Community’s Count: Why Cities Should Work With the Census Bureau to Review Local Addresses

BY: CitiesSpeak Guest

Youth Engagement

What City Leaders Can Do to Support School Attendance

BY: Brandis Stockman

Civic Engagement

Advancing a Shared Mission to End Hunger

BY: NLC Partnerships

Share Your Concept for Communities to Expand E-Mobility

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day

Finding What Works at the Solutions Forum

By:
  1. Megan Greig

What’s Local Government’s Role in Community Wellbeing?

What Does “Systems Change” Actually Mean?

Communicating Clearly About Community Health

How to Talk About Health Equity as a City Leader

Supreme Court Issues Employment Discrimination Opinion with Direct Municipal Implications

By:
  1. McKaia Dykema

Southern Cities Strive to Ensure Second Chances

How Entrepreneurship Support Organizations Fuel Economic Growth and Engagement in Oklahoma: Learning from Oklahoma City Innovation District

By:
  1. Safaya Fawzi

What is Fair Housing?

Supreme Court Rules on Important Impact Fee Case

By:
  1. McKaia Dykema

Final Municipal Tax Credit Regulations Present Opportunities for Clean Energy Projects

By:
  1. Michael Gleeson
  2. Carolyn Berndt

Charging up The State and Local EV Workforce Collaborative

By:
  1. McKinzie McGuire
  2. Kyle Funk

Building Equitable Climate Resilience: Learnings from Policy and Systems Change Academy Convening

By:
  1. Megan Greig

Leadership, Partnerships, and Equity Maps help celebrate the Week of Young Child and Earth Month

By:
  1. Vera Feeny

Securing Legacies: Strategies for Resolving Heirs’ Property Issues in Cities

6 Things for Local Leaders to Know About EPA’s New PFAS Drinking Water Regulations

By:
  1. Carolyn Berndt

Understanding the New ATF Firearm Dealership Regulations

By:
  1. Yucel Ors

Five Ways Local Leaders Can Support Their Residents with a Better FAFSA

By:
  1. Stephanie Martinez-Ruckman
  2. Patrick Hain

Celebrating Second Chance Month: The Crucial Role of City Leaders in Reintegration Efforts

By:
  1. Yucel Ors

SLFRF Portal Updates for April 2024

By:
  1. Michael Gleeson

Second Chance Month: Centering Lived Experience in Violence Intervention

By:
  1. Maryam Ahmed
  2. Kirby Gaherty

3 Takeaways from the Mayors’ Education Task Force Panel at Congressional City Conference

By:
  1. Lindsay Rapkin

Simplifying Grant Compliance for All Municipalities

By:
  1. Michael Gleeson

Four Key Strategies for Leveraging Federal Workforce Investments

By:
  1. Michael Bartlett

How Louisville Is Leveraging Tax Time to Increase Financial Stability

NLC Launches Program to Provide Environmental Justice Technical Assistance to Communities

By:
  1. Peyton Siler Jones
  2. Ayesha Mehrotra

Community Violence Intervention Funding Opportunities for Local Leaders

By:
  1. Yucel Ors

Hopeful Horizons: Local Leaders Sound Off on Week of the Young Child

By:
  1. Lara Burt

City Fiscal Conditions: How Municipal Expenditures Changed In the Post-Pandemic Era

By:
  1. Ivonne Montes Diaz
  2. Farhad Kaab Omeyr

Narrowing the Racial Wealth Divide: Supporting the Homeownership Journey

By:
  1. Diana Goldsmith
  2. Stephanie Onuaja

Navigating OSHA’s Proposed Emergency Response Rule: Financial Challenges for Local Governments & Their Fire Departments

By:
  1. Yucel Ors

Navigating New Horizons: The Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Reentry

By:
  1. Tomeka Lee
  2. Tony McCright, Jr.

Big Day for NLC and Municipal Governments: Final Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Grants Guidance Released

By:
  1. Stephanie Martinez-Ruckman
  2. Michael Gleeson

How AI Can Support Cities’ Sustainability Goals

By:
  1. Julia Glickman
  2. Christopher Jordan

How Wastewater Monitoring is Helping Keep a Transient Population Healthy

Wastewater Monitoring Success Stories: Riverside, CA

Using Wastewater to Protect Our Communities From COVID-19 and Other Pathogens

Congress Resolves Threat of a Government Shutdown with Mixed Outcomes for Local Government Priorities

By:
  1. Michael Wallace

5 Strategies for Developing a Local Green Jobs Plan

By:
  1. McKinzie McGuire

How City Prosecutorial Dashboards Impact Incarceration

By:
  1. Ian Grice

How Cities Can Grow the Building Retrofit Workforce

By:
  1. Kelly Aves

Unlocking the Power of Data at the Healthy Housing Symposium

Good Jobs, Great Cities Spotlight: Monroe, NC

By:
  1. McKinzie McGuire

NLC and Cities Win on Lead Pipe Replacement

By:
  1. Carolyn Berndt
  2. Michael Gleeson

The Sun is Going Away! How Municipalities are Preparing for the 2024 Solar Eclipse

By:
  1. Kyle Funk

Women’s History Month 2024: Celebrating the Success of Women in Municipal Government 

By:
  1. Clarence E. Anthony

Supreme Court Issues Important Decision Impacting Elected Officials and Use of Social Media

By:
  1. Stephanie Martinez-Ruckman

Apply Now: Navigating the Clean Ports Program Funding