Initiatives
Available Opportunities
We support leaders with improving their local government and communities. Explore this page to find unique opportunities for your city, town or village.
Currently in Progress
Keep up with all of NLC’s current initiatives to learn how to meet the needs of your community.
2024-25 Eviction Prevention Learning Lab
2025 Summer of Savings and Solutions
Afterschool and Summer Learning
Afterschool Policy Advisors Network
America was Built by Bonds
Apprenticeship for Cities
Arts & Health
Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials (APAMO)
Boys and Young Men of Color
Building Climate Change Resilience
Building Equitable Systems Begins with Infants and Toddlers
Cities of Opportunity
Cities of Opportunity Action Cohort
Cities of Opportunity Mayors’ Institute
Cities of Opportunity Policy and Systems Change Academy
City Cultural Diversity Awards
City Inclusive Entrepreneurship Network (CIE)
City-Led Children’s Savings Account (CSA)
Civic Mapping Initiative
Community Conversations on Race
Connecting Adults to Postsecondary and Workforce Success
Council on Youth, Education and Families
Decades in the Making: Cities Supporting Early Learning and the Child Care Economy
Early Learning Nation
Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Technical Assistance Program
Empowering Local Authority: Advocating for Responsible Preemption
Equitable Economic Mobility Initiative
First Tier Suburbs Council
Future of Cities
Good Jobs, Great Cities
Grant Opportunity: Advancing Economic Mobility
Great Lakes Federal Grant Navigation Program
Help Desk on Shared Equity Homeownership
Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO)
Housing & Community Development
Housing Supply Accelerator
Housing Supply Accelerator Challenge
Improving Community Health and Resilience through the Arts
Jail Reduction Strategies
Juvenile Justice Reform
Landlord Engagement Lab
Large Cities Council
Lead and Copper Rule Series
Leadership Applications
Leadership in Community Resilience
LGBTQ+ Local Officials
Local Democracy Initiative
Local Indigenous Leaders (LIL)
Local Infrastructure Hub Initiative
Mayors’ Education Policy Advisors Network (EPAN)
Military Communities Council
Municipal Strategies to Promote Workforce Success for People with Disabilities
National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO)
Nature Everywhere Communities
NLC + ecoAmerica: Elevating Local Climate Action
NLC AI Advisory Committee
Prenatal-to-Three Impact Lab
Racial Wealth Divide Initiative
Ready to Rebuild
REAL Council
Reconnecting Opportunity Youth and Young Adults
Reimagining Public Safety
Safety First Challenge for Safer Streets
Small Cities Council
Southern Cities Economic Initiative
Strong Southern Communities Initiative
Student Reengagement
Substance Use: Supporting City Solutions
Sustainability and Resilience
Take The Healthy Housing Local Action Challenge
The 2030 Census and Cities
The Policy and Systems Change Compass
The State and Local Collaborative to Support an Inclusive Workforce for the Electric Vehicle Charging Sector
Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation
University Communities Council
Urban Innovation
Women in Municipal Government (WIMG)
Women in Municipal Government Leadership Award
Young Municipal Leaders (YML)
Youth Excel: Cities Advancing Equitable Youth Economic Recovery and Empowerment
Constituency Groups
