In this episode of Live with Living Cities, guest host Valerie McDowell talks with Ashley Gabb, founder of Gabb Consulting and former executive at Estée Lauder, HP, and Discover, about her journey ...

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Choose “Download this document” to download the citations and sources, with links to further reading. The experiment of America is over two centuries old. Throughout our history, systems were designed ...

The Where It Starts: Breaking Barriers to Business (B3) initiative, supported by Truist Foundation, is a transformative effort led by Main Street America and Living Cities, aimed at bridging critical ...

Beyond 5 is a Business Survivability Study for New Majority Entrepreneurs produced by 1863 Ventures with funding from Living Cities, Surdna Foundation, Wells Fargo, M&T Bank, Capital One and ...

Although a majority of the household population is composed of Black households, vast disparities exist between these households and their white counterparts. Black households in Memphis have ...

People of color are reported to be on track to become the country’s new majority by 2045. Knowing this, government leaders, private investors and philanthropic funders need to have a more ...

When we launched the City Accelerator in 2015, our goal was to foster partnerships between philanthropy and local government to drive innovation in cities as a means to help tackle some of their most ...

I don’t have to look hard at the world around me today to find reasons for despair. We are being confronted daily with the fragility of institutions and norms that many of us took for granted.

City leaders are in a unique position to implement innovative practices that can transform their communities and drive better outcomes for their cities. This guide makes the case for equitable ...

We’re learning that if we want to do transformational work in the world, we must build interpersonal, restorative relationships. Read on for an inside look at our 2018 Winter Staff Retreat. Living ...

MLK’s efforts and legacy is common knowledge. One of the greatest ways to appreciate his work is to “keep the dream alive.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a truth speaker, a constant organizer, ...