outstanding and highly effective NGO, working hard since 1993 (7 years before receiving 501c3 status). focused on the practical issues facing city leaders, providing a platform for those leaders to engaged with the issues, with each other, and with emerging innovations that have the potential to create breakthroughs. Their website (http://cityminded.org/about) shows that they're busy impacting the real world of urban problems, while imagining the next future for cities. few NGOs can claim the kinds of successes that they've had, esp. those with such a very modest budget as UAI has each year.
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Economic Development, International, International Economic Development, Microfinance
Mission: Engage in activities related to informing municipal and urban leaders, and facilitate high-level exchanges of information and experience, regarding all aspects of municipal management, growth, sustainability and urbanization.
Programs: To foster leadership and innovation among cities in areas of strategic urban planning, public sector management, sustainable environmental planning, and poverty reduction