About this report This report was compiled following the second iteration of The Opportunity Project for Cities (TOPC) program, a 22-week innovation sprint designed after the federal initiative, The Opportunity Project. During the sprint, local governments, community leaders, and… Read more
Location: North America
How to fail (forward) framework
In government, learning from failure is the critical link between innovation and impact. Download the report The Centre for Public Impact and the Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation worked together to understand how… Read more
10 things we’ve learned and believe in after delivering 5 years of Public Sector Design Training
10 Best Practices for Implementing Innovation – And What to Avoid When you think of innovation, what comes to mind? Do you think of local government? Over the last five years of training 80+ cities and counties in innovation, we’ve… Read more
The Opportunity Project for Cities: Lessons from Akron, Detroit, Macon-Bibb, and Miami-Dade
The Opportunity Project for Cities is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and receives pro-bono technical support from Google.org. It is executed jointly by the Centre for Public Impact and The Beeck Center for Social… Read more
The Opportunity Project for Cities sprint toolkit: A guide for community-driven innovation sprints in local governments
About the sprint toolkit This toolkit was compiled to support the Opportunity Project for Cities (TOPC) program, a 22-week innovation sprint through which local governments work with community and tech partners to develop open-source tools that leverage data to address… Read more
La Fábrica de Renca: un modelo de innovación pública para el desarrollo sostenible
A version of this article in English is available here. La comuna de Renca, en Santiago de Chile, ha ganado rápidamente reconocimiento nacional e internacional como un caso ejemplar de desarrollo y transformación, sacando a una comunidad históricamente marginada de… Read more
Move with intention: A Systems Innovation approach to zero emissions transit in King County, Washington
This is the first blog in a multi-part series on the Centre for Public Impact’s (CPI) partnership with King County Metro (Washington State’s public transit agency serving Seattle and King County) as they bring a systems innovation approach to their… Read more
PRESS RELEASE: Centre for Public Impact Announces Pierre Berastaín as Regional Director for North America
Centre for Public Impact Announces Pierre Berastaín as Regional Director for North America WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/07/2023 — The Centre for Public Impact (CPI), a global not-for-profit organisation that supports governments to address complex challenges and drive meaningful change, has announced Pierre… Read more
With-Not-For: Addressing homelessness in Corpus Christi
From February to December 2022, Corpus Christi participated in the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative’s Innovation track. On-the-ground training and curriculum for city teams is delivered by the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins in partnership… Read more
PRESS RELEASE: Earning trust to build equitable and healthy societies
Health equity strategies in common: lessons from cities addressing disparities in holistic health, youth violence, and environmental contamination response The Centre for Public Impact shares learnings from Earning Trust to Build Equitable and Healthy Societies programme, implemented in St. Louis,… Read more