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For the past several months, the Accelerator has been working directly with cities to help them plan, prioritize, and coordinate the deployment of the unprecedented level of federal relief and recovery investments coming their way. Last week, alongside our partners at Drexel's Nowak Metro Finance Lab, we met on the ground with Mayor Nan Whaley, City Manager Shelley Dickstein, Dayton community leaders, and investors to develop an Investment Playbook focused on leveraging federal funding to build a more competitive and inclusive Dayton.

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More than a year and a half since the start of the pandemic, getting "back to normal" has been slower than all of us had hoped. Accelerator for America's work has always been strengthened by the ability to meet with local leaders and partners on the ground in communities to assess needs and strategize on plans to foster inclusive economic growth.

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For the past several months, the Accelerator has been working closely with our partners at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Drexel University's Nowak Metro Finance Lab, and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to develop critical resources to help mayors effectively organize for inclusive local recoveries.

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Yesterday, our Founder Mayor Eric Garcetti joined Conference President Mayor Greg Fischer, Mayor Quinton Lucas, Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein, and nearly 100 attending mayors and members of their teams from across the country to dive deep into two of these timely resources: our
American Rescue Plan Federal Investment Guide and our framework for establishing Stimulus Command Centers — 18-month, executive-level task forces with leaders from the public, private, and civic sectors to serve as the local go-to points for planning, prioritizing, and coordinating the deployment of federal relief and recovery investments.

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For the past several months, the Accelerator has been working closely with our partners at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Drexel University's Nowak Metro Finance Lab, and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to develop critical resources to help mayors effectively organize for inclusive local recoveries.

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The success of our Angeleno Card initiative, which distributed more than $36M to help more than 100,000 individuals in Los Angeles, sparked the Open Society Foundations to provide a generous grant for the Accelerator — alongside our partners at Mastercard City Possible — to adapt and expand the initiative into eight additional cities and two states. (Read more about the expansion here).

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Read our COVID-19 response newsletter covering the Angeleno Campaign, our new COVID-19 Relief Toolkit, the work of the New Partnership on Infrastructure and more.

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