The Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University is getting its own 12,000-square-foot office space at the Harvard Kennedy School. It's one of the few places training mayors and their teams to address problems like gun violence and homelessness.
, and the two-year-old Bloomberg Center is one of the few places that's training mayors and their teams to address such problems.At a ceremony today, Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will cut a ribbon for the center's new workspace — which, in keeping with Bloomberg traditions, has an open-seating floor plan.
New academic initiatives will include executive education programs for city officials who work in human resources and economic development. Another new program will teach best practices in civic engagement to city officials who work with the public.program, which places Harvard graduates in public service jobs in city governments.The current crop of City Hall Fellows are working on issues such as flood mitigation in Charleston, South Carolina; police oversight in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and sustainable transportation in Knoxville, Tennessee.
465 mayors have attended the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, founded in 2017 with a $32 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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