Accelerator for America (AFA) and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) today announced a long-term partnership to expand the Innovative Infrastructure Initiative (I3), helping communities across the country deploy transformative infrastructure projects. Launched in 2021 as a consortium of policymakers, technologists, investors, academics, and other leading thinkers, I3 has championed projects that use innovative strategies to meet pressing infrastructure needs.
Read MoreAs $1.2 trillion begin to flow from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, local government "project owners" face a lack of trained workers, impacting their ability to start and complete projects on time. At the same time, these local leaders and the communities they represent continue to grapple with growing income inequality. To help cities meet their workforce needs and to promote equitable career creation in underserved communities, the national non-profit “Do Tank” Accelerator for America today released the “Gold Standard Playbook for Workforce Development.”
Read MoreLocal economic development leader and ex-Louisville Forward chief Mary Ellen Wiederwohl is stepping into the top role at a national think tank founded by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, according to a Wednesday announcement.
Read MoreAccelerator for America Action and more than 40 signatories made up of mayors, climate advocacy organizations, and transportation coalitions urge Congress to amend Title 23 and allow states to partner with the private sector to offer zero-emission charging and refueling as a commercial activity on the NHS rights-of-way.
Read MoreThe New Partnership on Infrastructure (NPI), a bipartisan coalition of government officials and policy experts, recently released their New Playbook on Infrastructure. The coalition was formed by the Accelerator for America (AFA), a nonprofit that “seeks to scale and replicate local solutions to economic insecurity across the country.”
Read MoreAs the clock ticks down for California’s Legislature to offer more help to undocumented immigrants and other families in need, communities across the state rush to get money in the pockets of vulnerable people so they can make ends meet during the pandemic.
Read MoreTo overcome this pandemic, we must rethink our human behaviors under physical distancing guidelines. We must start to rebuild by utilizing technologies that connect everyone to everything, equally and equitably.
Read MoreInfrastructure funding is critical to getting America’s economic gears moving again, especially at the local level, argue stakeholders who seek to shape the next COVID-19 recovery package.
Read MoreAccelerator for America, co-founded by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and MasterCard's City Possible initiative announced they have raised over $10 million in private donations for direct financial assistance for Los Angeles residents, to be distributed in the form of prepaid debit cards.
Read MoreAs mayors from two great American cities in two different regions, who belong to two different political parties, we share a common belief that regardless of who resides in the White House, it is time for our federal government to step up and pass an infrastructure package from Washington now. But it is also time to change the historic top-down federal models in order to repair, rebuild, and re-invent America's infrastructure. For our nation to prosper in the next century, we must not only direct financial resources to this task, but we must create new partnerships, technology, and financing so that tax dollars at every level can get the job done.
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