Accelerating Economic Mobility Here in Mesa > Nope

Here's an update from Bloomberg's WhatWorksCities. Mesa was the first city to join four years ago in 2015
Jun 18 2019

Government Innovation

Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group Announce Ten U.S. Cities to Join New Initiative to Increase Economic Mobility
Source: https://www.bloomberg.org/press/releases/

Cities Will Use Data to Identify Barriers to Economic Opportunity for Residents, Test Promising Strategies, and Share What They Learn with Other Communities

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BLOGGER NOTE:

Whatever happened here in Mesa?

Mesa, AZ - What Works Cities - What Works City Feature

https://whatworkscities.bloomberg.org/works-city-feature-mesa-az/

Setting the Stage Mayor John Giles came into office promising to build the “NextMesa.”  . . .  

Is The City of Mesa Making The Mark In WhatWorksCities?

https://mesazona.blogspot.com/2017/03 

"18 months ago Mesa City Manager Chris Brady, shown grinning in the image to the left, signed the city’s Open Data Management Policy in October 2015 in an article by the Sunlight Foundation
The story [excerpts and links provided farther along in this post] received a whopping 17 views and no likes, shares, tweets linked-in or otherwise.

The published - and little-noticed story - stated that When What Works Cities partners Sunlight and the Center for Government Excellence began work with Mesa — the first city to officially sign on to the $42 million dollar Bloomberg Philanthropies program — city leaders had a clear vision for advancing open data in their community. . . 

 

Is the City of Mesa now ready to get certified that it's clear that they are headed down a path that will establish them as a leader in open data for mid-sized cities . . .

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"Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group announced today the ten American cities that will participate in a new national initiative to identify, pilot, and measure the success of interventions to accelerate economic mobility for their residents. The U.S. cities embarking on this project are: Albuquerque, NM; Cincinnati, OH; Dayton, OH; Detroit, MI; Lansing, MI; New Orleans, LA; Newark, NJ; Racine, WI; Rochester, NY; and Tulsa, OK.

The 10 cities have already begun working with a team of advisors from Results for America and the Behavioral Insights Team, both partners in What Works Cities, a Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative that helps cities confront urgent challenges through data- and evidence-based decision-making. The cities will deepen their data skills and strengthen their ability to deliver results to residents with the help of experts from other What Works Cities partners, including Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Government Excellence, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab and the Sunlight Foundation.Additionally, Opportunity Insights at Harvard University is helping the cities draw insights regarding economic mobility in their communities using data from the Opportunity Atlas, an interactive resource developed in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau.