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As cities find themselves at the forefront of addressing increasingly national and global issues, from public health and housing to climate change and education, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced the seventh class of 40 mayors — who come from nine countries and six continents — participating in the yearlong professional management training program. A first-of-its-kind program, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative equips mayors and their senior team members with new tools and expertise to expand their problem-solving capacity, strengthen their city halls, and improve outcomes for residents.

Learn more about the Initiative, and hear from the some of the mayors who spoke to us at the program kick off. You can also read more about our work to support mayors over the years — through the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and other efforts — in a recent story in TIME Magazine.

The next great climate innovators will gather together with HRH Prince William and Mike at the second annual Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit on September 19, 2023, in New York City. This year's Earthshot Prize finalists will be announced for their work around five "Earthshots" where cutting-edge solutions can help repair our planet this decade: Build a waste-free world; revive our ocean; protect and restore nature; clean our air; and fix our climate. To foster broad collaboration and urgent action, the Summit will bring the innovators together with business leaders, philanthropists, and policy makers. Save the date to tune-in to the 2023 Summit, then check out highlights from the 2022 Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit.

Great public art can be transformative, adding new energy to communities, bringing people together, and sparking conversations about important issues. To help bring public art to more places, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge offers U.S. cities grants of up to $1 million for temporary art projects that address a significant civic issue. For the most recent Challenge, more than 150 cities applied from 40 states. Of those, 17 finalists were chosen, and up to 10 winners will be awarded grants later this year. Take a moment to watch our video, where you'll see incredible work from previous winners, and find out which cities are in the running for this year's Public Art Challenge. And for more on public art as a social good, watch this panel from the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival, moderated by Kate Levin, who leads our Arts programs.

With record-breaking heat affecting millions of people around the world this summer, we wanted to share a previously released video, "Cities vs. Rising Heat," from our Building the Future series. While climate change is pushing heat to extreme levels, many design choices in cities' built environment are causing even higher temperatures in local communities. Find out how cities are responding to this growing challenge.

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