Major events can bring a sudden surge of visitors, attention, and investment to a city. Yet without the right systems in place, that activity may produce only temporary gains, bypass local businesses, ...

In 2012, Julie Lein and Clara Brenner started Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator with a mission to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. Through their experience with Tumml, Julie and Clara ...

In this episode of Live with Living Cities, guest host Valerie McDowell talks with Ashley Gabb, founder of Gabb Consulting and former executive at Estée Lauder, HP, and Discover, about her journey ...

Nearly seven years ago, Living Cities began its racial equity journey. However, it wasn’t until recently that we explicitly named race and racial equity in the work that we do . We realized that we ...

Choose “Download this document” to download the citations and sources, with links to further reading. The experiment of America is over two centuries old. Throughout our history, systems were designed ...

We cannot address racial disparities without being clear about the historical, social and political meaning of race in America. As part of our internal racial equity work, Living Cities has asked all ...

I don’t have to look hard at the world around me today to find reasons for despair. We are being confronted daily with the fragility of institutions and norms that many of us took for granted.

I work in circles where we talk a lot about “people of color” (POC). We discuss what POC need to thrive economically, how to support POC with resources, and of course we interrogate how racism affects ...

When traditional finance falls short, where can changemakers turn? Host Justin Charles talks with Jim Casselberry of Known about how impact investing directs capital to overlooked communities and ...

In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech that asked a question that reflected the discomfort between our country’s stated vision of freedom and independence and the reality of on-going human bondage: ...

Not just with goals, glory, and global fandom. But with money. Influence. Infrastructure. Attention. Capital. The FIFA World Cup, that is. And the numbers are staggering. Depending on the analysis, ...

Homeownership has been a primary wealth-building opportunity in the U.S., and can impact a family’s economic outcomes across generations. Living Cities partnered with the Urban Institute to provide ...