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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBack-Up Documents10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blonde( - Miami - 10121/2017 MAYORS CHALLENGE The 2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet I Miami - 10/21 /2017 SUMMARY O a Elevator Pitch O b People Affected Q c People Helped 0 d Categorize Your Solution O e Investigative Methods DESCRIBE THE IMPACT OF YOUR IDEA 0 3 Idea O 4 Previous Efforts O 5 Outside Contributions Q 6 Innovative Idea DEVELOP A PLAN O 9 Work Streams 0 10 Testing Your Idea Q 11 Risk Factors Q 12 Resident Involvement 0 13 Project Budget Estimate 0 14 Testing Phase Budget Estimate DEFINE THE PROBLEM O 1 The Problem Q 2 Impact on Citizens SHOW THE IMPACT OF YOUR IDEA O 7 Outputs, Outcomes and Impact Q 8 Impact on Residents BUILD SUPPORT FOR YOUR IDEA Q 15 Alignment with Mayor or Chief Executive O 16 Ensuring Political Support Q 17 Engaging Your Community Q 18 Resident Reflections Q 19 Demand for Your Idea 0 Marked Done 0 Unvisited 0 Not Done https://applicationbloomberg.org/actionlprintApplicatian.cfm?mode=pant 1/26 10/21/2(117 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian 13londet - Miami - 1.0/21/2017 - SUMMARY - a O Elevator Pitch Imagine you ran into Mike Bloomberg in an elevator and had to pitch him on your idea. How would you make a clear, compelling case for both the problem facing your city and how your idea will address it? Be sure to include specific examples and data. Miami is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and sea level rise. The city is built on a low lying porous limestone bed. Our stormwater infrastructure has not kept up with population and building growth, and we do not have good systems for evaluating the impacts of sea level rise on our city. We have the most assets at risk to storm and sea level rise related flooding than any other metropolitan area in the world. However, our residents do not have a clear understanding of the risks related to sea level rise, particularly as it relates to their specific property, how they can mitigate those risks over time, and how to stay informed and engaged on city land use, code and infrastructure planning that may also mitigate those risks. Residents and businesses are facing rising flood insurance costs. They are living with increasing uncertainty about their investments and their families. The most promising adaptive solutions are very complex. The overwhelming technical details often stifle community and political support and regional collaboration. Infrastructure decisions are often made independently by various departments or jurisdictions without strong coordination and communications. The idea is to 1) create robust shared data platform that accepts inputs from a variety of sources (commissioned studies, sensor data, open data, etc) and 2) Create a user-friendly interface for residents, the business community, policy makers, technical staff, and other stakeholders to easily model/visualize risk and explore the impacts of various mitigation scenarios. hops://application.bloomberg.org/action/printApplicatinn.cfm?mode=print 2/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 bO People Affected Estimate the number of people your problem affects. Provide a brief explanation of how you came to this number. Sea level rise and its potential to disrupt our economy, housing stock, and overall quality of life directly impact all of our 450,000 residents. Miami is part of a thriving metropolitan area that includes Mia-Dade County and Miami Beach, both very active collaborators in climate change mitigation. The metropolitan region includes 2.7 million residents. Any action by the City would benefit the entire region. Furthermore, Miami is home to investments from around the world. Securing these investments would have far reaching impact. C O People Helped Estimate the number of people your idea will help when it is fully implemented. Provide a brief explanation of how you came to this number. Currently, approximately 114,000 people live within the flood plain of the City of Miami. In the long -run, if this is unaddressed, it will affect all City of Miami residents and all of Southeast Florida. https://applicatinn.hlonmberg.org!action/printApplication.cfm?mode=print 3/26 10/21/201.7 Mayors Challenge Application -Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/2 V2017 d • Climate e O Categorize Your Solution Is your solution primarily (a) solving an issue -specific problem, or (b) improving the way city government works? (choose one only) Issue -specific: The way government works: • Economic & Workforce Development • Create Government Efficiencies • Education & Youth Development • Improve Customer Service • Income Inequality & Social Inclusion • Increase Public Engagement • Health and Wellbeing • Other • Homelessness • Infrastructure • Neighborhoods, Housing & Blight • Public Safety • Parks & Recreation • Climate • Other Investigative Methods Which methods below did you use to investigate the problem and come up with your idea? • Quantitative Data Analysis • Qualitative research, such as interviewing or shawdowing residents • Innovation methods such as journey mapping or stakeholder mapping • Open call or ideas competition • Engaging front-line city staff • Engaging partners outside government to offer different skills and perspectives • Other • Qualitative research, such as interviewing or shawdowing residents • Innovation methods such as journey mapping or stakeholder mapping • Engaging front-line city staff • Engaging partners outside government to offer different skills and perspectives https://application.bioomberg.org/actian/printAppl'scation.cfm?mode=print 4/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application -Lillian Blondct - Miami - l0f21.l2017 - DEFINE THE PROBLEM - i o The Problem What is the problem you aim to solve? The community does not have the user-friendly tools needed to adequately quantify personal risk and make decisions in face of climate change. 2 O Impact on Citizens What is the current and long-term impact of this problem on the citizens of your city? How did you quantify this impact? If the problem is not addressed, what will be the consequences? Communicating risk to residents has been challenging. While some residents - predominantly in coastal communities - have demonstrated concerns, other constituencies remain confused about how sea -level will impact them directly. Several organizations and municipalities have made efforts to communicate risk, but statements are often broad. Many residents have been unable to make a personal connection with climate change. They see flooding in their communities, but the connection to their economic future is not clear. A more elegant, personal way to translate huge amounts of technical data and into personalized economic risk is strongly needed. There is lack of clarity, and as a result, investors, political leaders, and voters remain reluctant to make bold decisions. Collaborations stall from uncertainty. Lack of coordinated economic impact analysis has stifled public and private financing. Decisions about land use are still being made without access to the best, most robust data. From a data coordination perspective, the lack of a shared data platform means that technical partners don't know where the inroads are to contribute their skills. It means unnecessary duplication of research efforts. It means data collection projects aren't reaching their full potential because results aren't being distributed effectively. https:Napplication_bloomherg.orglactionlprintApplication.cfm?mode=print 5/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 On the data consumption side, the lack of user-friendly interfaces to explore the data means that stakeholders won't know the cost of inaction, impacts to real estate value and jobs. They won't how to take part in solution building - how best to act in the interests of their families and the community at large. While many individuals, organziations, and municipalities have risen to the occasion, various breakdowns in communication suck the air out of many efforts. Silos and disconnected messaging discourage would-be collaborators. Potential partners tire from not knowing how to plug in. In the end, residents stay home when its time to vote. https://applicatitm.b1oomberg.org/actinn/printApplication.cftn?mode=print 6/26 10/21/20I7 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blonder - Ivliami - 1O/21/2017 - DESCRIBE THE IMPACT OF YOUR IDEA - 3 O Idea Describe your big idea to address the problem. If your idea is successful, how will the world be different in three years? What are the main activities and how will these lead to the desired changes? The idea is 2-fold. First, create a shared data platform for collaboration around climate change/ resilience data. This provides a known rallying point for data contributions. Cities, universities, and the private sector would have a known set of standards for how to submit, index, and integrate data. This part effort would highlight the importance of data interoperability and encourage relationship building with other generators of data. For example, rain and tidal flooding data from our Stormwater Masterplan data could co -exist from flood sensor data generated by a local technology company. Universities could further feed the platform with study data of economic impacts of flooding over time. The 2nd piece - and ultimate goal - is an engaging, user-friendly tool that allows stakeholders to explore and visualize the economic risks of sea -level rise. Focusing heavily on best practices in user experience, the tool could allow users to do things like... - See risk over time. - Suggest different mitigation efforts based on their location. - On the fly, explore how the differences between minor mitigation and retrofitting an entire property. - Show economic impacts to their neighborhood over time - real estate value, jobs - Visualize impacts of pending legislation. - How different public infrastructure investments can affect their risk profile. The solutions seeks to both attract better inputs of data and promote better synthesis of that data for public consumption. https://applic.pion.bloomberg.org/action/printApplication.cfm?mode=print 7/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet- Miami - 10/21/2017 4 O Previous Efforts All "new" ideas stand on the shoulders of ideas that came before. Tell us about other efforts that have inspired or informed aspects of your idea. The idea builds on existing collaboration between the City of Miami, the City of Miami Beach, and Miami -Dade County through 100 Resilient Cities. The Chief Reilience Officers of those municipalities are jointly putting together a resilience plan for "Greater Miami and the Beaches." The City of Miami also received a grant from Knight Foundation to explore loT technologies and how they feed data systems. The City has also been working on its open data program, online usability, university partnerships, workforce technical skills (data and process improvement), user research - all efforts to better aggragators and communicators of information. 5 O Outside Contributions Great ideas often come from unexpected places and people. What were the greatest contributions (ideas, suggestions, problem framing, etc.) from sources outside of your government? The City of Miami has been making great strides to keeps its ears open to partners. The idea of a shared data platform is an ongoing topic among the Resilient Greater Miami and the Beaches team (Miami, Miami Beach, and the County). Universities - Florida International University, University of Miami, Miami -Dade College - all have teams exploring different aspects of climate change impact. They have all expressed interest in tapping into and contributing to our data. We have, as a result, noticed the lack of in -roads for them to make intergrated contributions. 100 RC platform partners have expressed interested in working with Miami to design this platform. Miami startups are also developing tools to visualize the built environment (Gridics) and calculate financial risk (DeepBlocks). Code for Miami has developed apps to crowdsource flood reports during "King Tide". Tomorrow's (October 21st) annual hackathon will specifically address climate change and disaster response. https://application.bloomberg.orglaction/printApphcation.cfm?made=print 3/26 1012112017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Mia ni - 1012112017 6 O Innovative Idea What makes your idea innovative? How is the approach unexpected and new to the city? If your idea builds on an existing idea from another city (or your own), please be explicit about the elements that are new. REFERENCE TIP What Makes This Idea Innovative? This idea is innovative - first, for its ambitous intention to cross jurisdations (Miami Beach, Miami -Dade County, and ultimately other regional partners) but also public, private sector - effectively driving all partners to zero -in on the shared platform, thereby encouraging key, shared characteristsics of interoperability and transparency. Conversely, what we've seen in other areas is siloed (and often frustrated) academic efforts or private partners providing "free" data platforms and/or technologies that actually create more noise because of the lack of cohesion with other efforts. Municipalities risk finding themselves beholden to certain vendor commitments or closed systems that prevent collaboration. On the visualization side - many tools exist, but they are often too technical for most users. Furthermore, they do not have a specific focus on both climate change impacts AND risk calculation. https:llapplication.bloomberg.orglaction/printApphcation.cfm?mode=print 9/26 10/2I/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 - SHOW THE IMPACT OF YOUR IDEA - 7 O Immediate Outputs Outputs, Outcomes and Impact Outline what the a. immediate outputs, b. short-term outcomes, and c. long-term impacts will be if your idea is implemented successfully. Please indicate the dates by which you expect to achieve those outputs, outcomes and impacts. Include the major milestones for each of the first three years. Assume a March 1, 2018 start date, which is when testing is slated to begin for Champion Cities. REFERENCE TIP Outcomes, Outputs and Impact Immediate Outputs (Oct 2018): - A known, official rallying point for all data generators (universities, muncipalities, civic technologists, start-ups, loT companies, investors, insurance providers.) - A shared set of standards that vendors and collaborators would have to abide by - preventing unnecessary noise in climate change mitigation efforts. - A Prototype of a user interface for data exploration around climate change risk. Short-term Outcomes Short -Term Outcomes (Early 2019): - Less uncertainty and distrust amongst stakeholders. - More concise, informed discussion during legislative discourse. - More informed decision by individual property owners. Long-term Impacts Long Term Impact: - Mitigation of insurance costs. - More resilient built environment. Data -driven private and public infrastruture investements. hltps:Napplication.bloomberg.orglactionlprintApplication.cfm?mcde=print 10/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blonder - Miami - 10/21/2017 8 O Impact on Residents How will residents know about this idea and how will it affect them within 12 months of implementation? Both the Chief Resilience Officer and the Chief Innovation Officer (co -leading this effort) have been very active engaging community partners around this issue over the last year. They will continue to advocate for collaborative solution building, promoting this effort, across various constuencies. There is also increased potential to engage the community via public data events (University of Miami's annual data visualization event, the Miami Make Faire, Code for Miami Hack events). Residents will be able to use the protoype to explore initial data points, while also providing user feedback about the effectiveness of the tool. Residents and partners will also immediately benefit from shared definitions around data and other components of resilience. It will immediately begin to refine the conversation, an important need as legislation arises throughout the year. Ultimately, the impacts/benefits are significant with residents, businesses and governments being able to make more intentional decisions about their future. https://application.bloomberg.orglactionlprintApplicntion.cfm?mode-print 1 1 /26 10/2112017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Btondet - Miami - la/2i/2017 9 O - DEVELOP A PLAN - Work Streams Outline the key activities and anticipated dates for key phases of your implementation by using the template below. Note: For this template, please list the major workstreams required to implement your solution at scale — but please limit to the top 5 workstreams. Include the major milestones for each of the first three years. Assume a March 1, 2018 start date, which is when testing is slated to begin for Champion Cities. REFERENCE TIP Example Workstreams Template https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TsGEpdbgOL2DMhJHB2zNDT-d-1 F- tgg4YZgEZIzgZ3Q/edit 100 Testing Your Idea What assumptions, and/or components of your idea will you test if you are selected as a Champion City? (As a reminder, up to 35 Champion Cities will be selected to test their idea.) How will you incorporate what you learn to increase the likelihood of success for the overall initiative? The protoype in year one will demonstrate an early data architecture and "starter" user interface for an exploration model. The year -one effort will focus on a limited geographic area, allowing desigers and technical teams to more easily grasp with the variables and potential impacts of a specific communty. Two neighborhoods are currently being looked at: Shorecrest (which is a residential neighborhood highly susceptible to sea -level rise) and Brickell (a business district with a strong local partner, the Downtown Development Authority). These two neighborhoods will provide useful insights - each with different residential and land use profiles - that can later be scaled to other areas. hitpsa/appIicatinn.binomberg.org/action/printAppIication.cfm?mode=print I2/2b 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 We will test if the ambitious data integration we imagine is actually practical in Tight of so many partners (each with own way of handling, generating data) We will test if residents actually feel more confident, in control, and engaged with a risk visualization tool of this kind. We will see if partners respond to the engagement and see it as a true rallying point for their data and analysis efforts. 110 Risk Factors What are the three greatest risks to the success of your idea and why? If you are selected as a Champion City (as a reminder, up to 35 cities will be selected to test their idea), will you use the testing phase to understand how to minimize any of these risks? If so, how? REFERENCE TIP Testing and Risk We don't know if data generators have the resources and/or technical skill to produce data in ways that align with our intended data platform. An online tool may still be too technical for some of our most vulnerable communities, possibly even furthering the divide between those "in the know" and "those who aren't." There may be liabilities for governments to communiate risk when there are so many uncertainties. 120 Resident Involvement How will citizens and other groups be involved in your implementation, and what will their level of involvement be? https://application.hloomherg.org/actionlprintApplication.cfm'?mode print I3/26 10/2112017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blonder - Miami - 10121/2017 Residents will be involved in user testing of the tool at all levels. The City has - in the past - used official Civic User Testing (CUT Groups) to test new web pages and software. The groups seeks to bring in users from various demographic to perfrom user tests in a structured format. These groups will certainly be accessed in some form or another throughout this project. Furthermore, there are various public forums (sea -level rise committee, meet -ups) whereby residents, developers, builders can respond to progress. 130 Project Budget Estimate What is the best estimate of the cost to implement and sustain your idea? Please answer this question using the budget form below. Note: For the full-scale implementation budget, create your budget for the first three years which should include launch and bringing the idea to full scale. Please also list the anticipated sources of funding in the Sources table. In the sources table, please assume a grant of $1 million. REFERENCE TIP Budget Terms Glossary https:Ildocs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1 vgyRbzay6A29sQ.Ivy48ojZVRD4uZ5TtkitzPOZuy- vY/edit 140 Testing Phase Budget Estimate How much will it cost to complete the tests outlined in question 10 and question 11? Please answer this question using the budget forms below. Note: For the testing phase, Bloomberg Philanthropies will award Champion Cities up to $100,000 to supporting a testing phase of —6 months. You should budget for only the amount needed to implement the tests you have outlined in question 10 and question 11. https;/lapplication.hloomhcrg.org/action/printApplication.cfm?mode=print 14/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 https:Ildocs.google.com/spreadsheets/dl1 DRjR6QL_bLDzT- AOPU2WNOxLIz9HbVavbR.tOoOLN8PY!edit https://application .bloomberg.org/action/printAppl ication.cfm?mode=print 15/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application -Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 - BUILD SUPPORT FOR YOUR IDEA - 150 Alignment with Mayor or Chief Executive How does this idea align with your Mayor or Chief Executive's priorities? How will he or she actively champion this idea? Mayor Regalado is a strong supporter of Climate Change mitigation. He has actively supported a $400 Million general obligation bond (currently on ballot for vote in Nov) which seeks $200 million for sea -level rise mitigation efforts. 160 Ensuring Political Support Is there an upcoming election in your city? If so, please list the date of the election and if your current mayor is eligible for re- election and planning to run. Please note any other anticipated transitions in leadership. Should there be a leadership transition in your city, how will you ensure support through the transition? There is a Mayoral election in early November. Mayor Regalado is termed out, and not eligible to run. The front runner is current commissioner Francis Suarez. (The only other candidates on the ballot have not raised any funds, leaving Commissioner Suarez virtually unchallenged) Commissioner Suarez has been a vocal supporter of innovation and new technology to solve our most pressing problems. 170 Engaging Your Community How will you engage people, organizations, and resources inside and outside of the municipal government to sustain your idea over time? https://application.bloomberg.orglactionlprintA.pplication.cfm?mode-print 16/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet- Miami - 10/21/2017 Both Resilience and Innovation have strong executive support and ongoing internal partnership with Strategic Planning Team, ensuring consistent messaging of priorities across the organziation. Furthermore, all aforementioned teams have ongoing interactions with the pubic (weekly meetings with civic community, speaking engagements, "cafe conversations" for resident feedback, various community meetings/home owners associations). These face-to-face interactions with residents, coupled with active social media accounts serve to keep a dialogue going with residents. The Chief Innovation Officer will also oversee upcoming overhaul of City's website. City of Miami Communiations is also an active partner (Twitter, Nextdoor) 18 Response I Resident Reflections Share your idea with stakeholders or residents who would be impacted by the idea. What are three of the most interesting responses? Civic Tech Community - asked during preparations for upcoming Hackatahon - incredibly eager to explore new data sets. They've offered support on CUT Groups and user experience. Response 2 Neighbor reinforced the feeling of helplessness in the face of climate change. "1 mean, what can we really do about the ocean anyway?" "How do I know if my house is going to be flooded if we have a category 2 hurricane?" "When do I need to sell?' Response 3 University partners at University of Miami's Data Visualization program (Interactive Media and Computational Science) see incredible potential to engage their students -- both from the open data perspective and also to assist in design of visualizations and user interfaces. h tlpsalappl icatimt.bloombere.orglactianlprintAppl ication.cfm ?mode=print 17126 10/21 /20 17 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blonder - Miami - 10/21/21117 190 Demand for Your Idea How do you know this problem is relevant to other cities? Talk to at least two other cities that might be interested in taking up your idea once it's implemented. Do their responses provide any insights into what would make your idea more transferable? We have a strong relationship with the City of Miami Beach. We know they are an applicant on an idea related to data sharing. There effort would be very related to this platform. Coral Gables has also expressed interest in providing better modeling to its residents. The County is also very interested in visually digestable ways to help residents explore different pubic infrastructure investments in tehir neighborhoods. Finally, through the Southeast Climate Change compact this platform could be helpful to 4 counties and 108 cities. https://application.hloombcrg.nrg/action/printApplication.cfm?mode=print 18/26 1012112017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Btondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 END APPLICATION ! Lillian Blondet I Miami -- 10/21/2017 https://application.bloomberg.org/action/printApplication.cfm?mode-print 19/26 10/2112017 Mayors Challenge Applicatio❑ - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 TIPS AND RESOURCES Outcomes, Outputs and Impact You should be able to quantify, measure and evaluate the impact of your idea on the specific problem identified. What metrics you will use to track the success of your idea? ARE THEY SMART? S PECIFIC M EASURABLE A CHIEVABLE R EALISTIC T IMEBOUND WHEN WILL YOU BE ABLE TO START MEASURING IMPACT, AND HOW? How "deep" is the impact: how significant How "broad" is the impact: what percentage of would the impact be on the citizens affected? your citizens will be positively impacted? https://application.bloomberg.org/actionlprintApplication.cfm?mode=print 20/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 Eti TIPS AND RESOURCES Example Workstreams Template This example shows the level of detail we are looking for, using 2013 Mayors Challenge grand prize winner Providence Talks as an example. DOWNLOAD THIS PROVIDENCE TALKS EXAMPLE PDF MAYORS CHALLENGE Workstream List up to 5 workstreams Program Design and Curriculum For a bold idea to come to life, it requires thoughtful planning. Identify the major workstreams you've identified to implement your idea, and the major milestones associated with those worksreams over time. The examples below show the level of detail we are looking for at this stage using Mayors Challenge grand prize winner Providence Talks as an example. Description Major Milestones Provide a brief description of List up to 5 milestones for each workstream the workstream Milestones Target Dates Create a first version of the model and curriculum Mar-15 Define the delivery model Launch pilot to test the model and curriculum Jul-15 and create the curriculum to Pilot completed Oct-17 deliver the program Version 2 of model and curriculum Feb-17 Version 3 of model and curriculum Feb-17 2 Partner Recruitment and Training issue RFP for service provider for pilot Ensure quality partners are Contract in place for pilot recruited and implement the Train pilot service provider model with fidelity Apr-17 May-17 Jun-17 3 Enrollment Work with partners to enroll Identify enrollment partners eligible families in the Create enrollment strategy Launch enrollment campaign program Apr-17 Jun-17 Feb-17 4 Evaluation Hire evaluator Evaluate if the program is Evaluation plan complete working as intended and if it Pilot evaluation results is having the intended impact Launch full-scale evaluation plan Evaluation results Feb-17 Mar-17 Dec-17 Jun-16 Nov-17 5 Communications and Marketing Hire marketing firm Raise awareness of and Marketing plan approved demand for the program Launch marketing plan Jun-17 Nov-17 Feb-17 hops://application.bloomberg.org/action/printAppl ication.efm?rnnde-print 21 /26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/2I/2017 TIPS AND RESOURCES Testing and Risk Bold and innovative ideas often bring risks. To reduce risks, identify the key assumptions behind your idea, and test these assumptions before the idea is brought to scale. You may want to refer back to your THEORY OF CHANGE to draw up a list of the key assumptions behind your idea. Do any of these assumptions look weak or as What small scale tests could you run to yet lack evidence? investigate them? Are there any areas of uncertainty, or in which Is the right team in place to test the idea your team lack expertise? effectively? You might want to enlist partners who can help you test your assumptions, or find ways to get the thoughts and feedback of beneficiaries, as early as possible in the design process. Plan to capture the lessons learned in these tests, so that you can incorporate them into your final design. Where risks remain, indicate whether they are serious or acceptable, and how you plan to deal with them. https://applicatian.hloomherg.orglaction/printApplicatian.cfm?made=print 22/26 10/21/2017 Pviavors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - 10/21/2017 TIPS AND RESOURCES What Makes This Idea Innovative? Innovation is about doing something new, bold and creative. To what extent will your initiative enable you to say "We are the first city to..."? THE IDEA IS NEW It envisions a new solution for an ambitious problem At its core, innovation is about doing something new. During this challenge, take the opportunity to try something that no one else ever has. Take Providence, the 2013 Mayors Challenge Grand Prize Winner, as an example. Their city faced an education gap between high and low-income children: two-thirds of Providence children entering kindergarten fell short on state literary tests, a gap that has a life-long impact on their development. To address this challenge, Providence tried something no other city had, creating a program that would address the achievement disparities at the earliest stage possible, taking advantage of children's rapid brain development between birth and age three. The resulting program has made profound improvements in the health brain development and life trajectories of children who participate. never been tried before. Or take Santiago, Chile (2016 Mayors Challenge winner) as an example. A UN report indicates that two thirds of children in Chile are overweight or obese, so the city decided to tackle this health issue head-on. The city created a program called "Juntas Santiago" to develop neighborhood -level competition in which teams of 10-12 year olds will be encouraged to choose healthier food options and to exercise more. Teams will earn points towards prizes based on team members' healthy choices. A non-traditional approach to childhood obesity such as this is required to address a problem of this magnitude. THE IDEA IS BOLD It is more impactful than a traditional solution Innovation can sometimes mean taking an idea and expanding its reach to benefit a new population. Barcelona, the 2014 Grand Prize Winner, proposed a digital app that brings together and coordinates the support of friends, family members, neighbors, and professional care givers for at -risk seniors. https://application.bloomberg.org/action/printApplication.cfm?mode=print 23/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application -Lillian Blonder - Miami - 10/21/2017 While younger generations already take advantage of digital platforms, expanding the program's reach so that the city's elderly population can comfortably access cutting -edge technology that help reduce their social isolation and associated health risks was truly innovative. Solutions to critical problems are often costly and limited in impact. As such, innovation can also mean coming up with an efficient, economical solution that positively impacts a population. Kirklees, a 2014 Mayors Challenge winner, understood that the "sharing economy" was quickly changing economic models, and that local and national governments were often slow to adapt. Traditional solutions to these addresses changes are expensive and insufficient, so Kirklees' constructed COMOODLE. The website provides an online space for municipal, community, and private assets to be shared. By serving as a facilitator to the sharing economy instead of trying to control it with old solutions, Kirklees has been able to deliver significant value to its residents with minimal additional expense. THE IDEA IS CREATIVE It is a new tool or a new approach Sometimes innovation means creating new tools. The City of Warsaw won the 2014 Mayors Challenge for "Virtual Warsaw," which aims to help visually impaired residents navigate the city. Through the program, the city is creating new tools — beacons — that will be installed throughout the city. These beacons will communicate location data to the smartphones of the visually impaired, empowering them to navigate on their own. This tool allows the visually impaired to operate completely differently within their city. Another example, Guadalajara, a 2016 Mayors Challenge winning city, is tackling corruption by streamlining the legal requirements for construction projects. They created a new tool - a geo- referenced app - that publicly maps business names, plans, licenses and payments, speeding processing times and increasing transparency. Athens, a 2014 Mayors Challenge winner, developed an innovative approach to community engagement. Greece has a very low citizen volunteering rate, so the city developed SynAthina, an online platform to allow members of the community to engage in problem -solving and reform. This new approach changed the way that citizens interact with government. Citizens can now submit ideas and are connected to the relevant government representatives, non -governmental organizations, and private businesses that can support their efforts. hitps;//application.binomberg.orgfaction/printApplicafion.cfm?mode-print 24/26 10/21/2017 Mayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blonder - Miami - 10/21/2017 THE IDEA IS DISRUPTIVE Could the spread of your idea lead to a dramatic change in the status quo? Innovation requires challenging the status quo. Let's use the Santa Monica example. The most common measure of a community's success is economic growth, but this 2013 Mayors Challenge winner challenged this assumption and developed a new definition of the community's wellbeing. Their Wellbeing Project defined factors that contribute to wellbeing — personal outlook, environment/place, health, economic opportunity, learning, and community connectedness — and comprehensively measured how its citizens and communities fare on these indicators. Many of their findings highlighted previously unknown areas for improvement: one third of residents are stressed all or most of the time and that fruit and vegetable consumption is less than half the national average. This information fundamentally changed the way that the city measured a community's success. The program formed the foundation for new initiatives to boost civic engagement, improve transportation, expand access to healthy food, and more. https://application.bloomberg.org/action/printApp1ication.cfm:?mode=print 25126 10/21/2017 ]vlayors Challenge Application - Lillian Blondet - Miami - I0/21/2017 TIPS AND RESOURCES Budget Terms Glossary For reference, below is a glossary of terms used in the Budget Template. You may also DOWNLOAD THIS GLOSSARY OF THE TERMS. Advertising/Media/Communications Mass Media Advertising including informational brochures, television, radio and/or Internet campaigns. Example: Local television advertising; print or online media buy, contract with a public relations firm. Equipment Purchase or rental of furniture and fixtures, computer hardware and software, printers, photocopy machines, scanners etc. Labor (staff salaries) Personnel salary for any of the individual personnel working on the program including fringe benefits. Other Direct Costs Any costs that are program related, but do not fall within any other section/line item. Example: Stipends. Sub-Contracts/Consulting Contracts given to individuals or companies that can be for professional or temporary consulting services or contracts of other nature. Example: Contract with a research firm, strategic development firm, technology firm, etc. Supplies Items valued at less than $5,000 per unit with an expected life of less than one year. Example: Presentations, policy documents, reports, manuals, printing, educational materials. Travel/Meetings/Workshops (Travel related to grant activities) Travel for site visits, meetings, seminars, workshops, etc. as well as incidentals related to travel, meetings and seminars. Example: Airfare, train fare, hotels, per diems, rental of venue to hold a training session. htlps://appIication.bloomberg.org/action/printApplication.cfm?mode=print 26/26 Montes de Oca,Francisca From: Montes de Oca, Francisca Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:36 PM To: 'Emig, Anne' Cc: Cacciato, Cristina; Sarasti, Michael; Gilbert, Jane; Stewart, Ajani; Ruiz, Joseph A.; Blondet, Lillian; Reinoso, Carol; mayorschallenge@bloombergcities.org Subject: RE: Grant Letter Agreement Anne: Perfect, thank you for confirming. Best regards, Francisca Montes de Oca Office of Innovation City of Miami 444 SW 2nd Ave, loth Floor Miami, FL 33130 Office: 305-416-1018 fmontesdeoca@miamigovcom www.miamigov.com Have an idea or suggestion? Click here! From: Emig, Anne [mailto:anne@bloomberg.org] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:24 PM To: Montes de Oca, Francisca <FMontesdeoca@miamigov.com> Cc: Cacciato, Cristina <Cristina@bloomberg.org>; Sarasti, Michael <MSarasti@miamigov.com>; Gilbert, Jane <JaGilbert@miamigov.com>; Stewart, Ajani <AStewart@miamigov.com>; Ruiz, Joseph A. <jaruiz@miamigov.com>; Biondet, Lillian <LBlondet@miamigov.com>; Reinoso, Carol <CReinoso@miamigov.com>; mayorschallenge@bloombergcities.org Subject: Re: Grant Letter Agreement Hi Francisca, There will not be an agreement beyond the letter. Best, Anne Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Montes de Oca, Francisca <FMontesdeoca@miamigov.com> wrote: Cristina: 1 Perfect, thank you! Is there any way we could receive a copy of the draft agreement? To present to the commission, we would like to provide a copy of the draft agreement (in substantially the same form) in the event they have any questions. Please advise if this is feasible. Once again thank you so much, we appreciate your help! Best regards, Francisca Montes de Oca Office of Innovation City of Miami 444 SW 2nd Ave, 10th Floor Miami, FL 33130 Office: 305-416-1018 fmontesdeoca@miamigov.com www.miamigov.com Have an idea or suggestion? Click here! From: Cacciato, Cristina [mailto:Cristina@bloomberg.org] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 3:28 PM To: Mantes de Oca, Francisca <FMontesdeoca@miamigay.com> Cc: Emig, Anne <anne@bloomberg.org>; mayorschallenge@bloombergcities.org Subject: RE: Grant Letter Agreement Dear Francisca - I hope that you're well. I work with Anne Emig (copied here) on the Mayors Challenge at Bloomberg Philanthropies and am following up on her behalf to provide the letter agreement. Please find it attached here and let me know if you have any questions. All the best, Cristina From: Emig, Anne Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:38 AM To: Cacciato, Cristina <Cristina@bloomberg.org> Subject: Fwd: Grant Letter Agreement Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Montes de Oca, Francisca" <FMontesdeoca@miamigov.com> Date: March 23, 2018 at 6:19:51 PM GMT To: "Emig, Anne" <anne@bloomberg.org>,"mayorschallenge@bloombergcities.org" <mayorschallenge@bloombergcities.org> Cc: "Sarasti, Michael" <MSarasti@miamigov.com>, "Ruiz, Joseph A." 2 <jaruiz@miamigov.com>, "Stewart, Ajani" <AStewart@miamigov.com>, "Gilbert, Jane" <JaGilbert@miamigov.cam>, "ruben.ocampo@conicgroup.com" <ruben.ocampo@conicgroup.com>, "Blondet, Lillian" <LBlondet@miamigov.com>, "Reinoso, Carol" <CReinoso@miamigov.com> Subject: RE: Grant Letter Agreement Anne: Perfect, will do, thank your Best regards, Francisca Montes de Oca Office of Innovation City of Miami 444 SW 2nd Ave, 10th Floor Miami, FL 33130 Office: 305-416-1018 fmontesdeoca@miamigov.com www.miamigov.com Have an idea or suggestion? Click herel From: Emig, Anne [mailto:anne@bloomberg.org] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 2:18 PM To: Montes de Oca, Francisca <FMontesdeoca@miamigov.com> Cc: Sarasti, Michael <MSarasti@miamigov.com>; Ruiz, Joseph A. <jaruiz@miamigov.com>; Stewart, Ajani <AStewart@miamigov.com>; Gilbert, Jane <JaGilbert@miamigov.com>; ruben.ocampo@conicgroup.com; Blondet, Lillian <LBlondet@miamigov.com>; Reinoso, Carol <CReinoso@miamigov.com>; mayorschallenge@bloombergcities.org Subject: RE: Grant Letter Agreement Hi Francisca, To ensure a reply, please direct all inquiries to mayorschallenge@bloombergcities.org. We will look into this and get back to you. Thanks, Anne Anne Emig Bloomberg Philanthropies 25 East 78th Street New York, NY 10075 0: +1-212-205-0126 Bloomberg.org From: Montes de Oca, Francisca [mailto:FMontesdeoca@miarnigov.com] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 2:15 PM 3 To: Emig, Anne <anne@bloomberg.org> Cc: Sarasti, Michael <MSarasti@miamigov.com>; Ruiz, Joseph A. <jaruiz@miamigov.com>; Stewart, Ajani <AStewart@miamigov.com>; Gilbert, Jane <JaGilbert@miamigov.com>; ruben.ocampo@conicgroup.com; Blondet, Lillian <LBiondet@miamigov.com>; Reinoso, Carol <CReinoso@miamigov.com> Subject: Grant Letter Agreement Good afternoon Anne: It was a pleasure seeing you at Ideas Camp, thank you and the Bloomberg team once again for the amazing opportunity. As we discussed at Ideas Camp, in order for us to receive funding in April, we kindly request if we could receive the letter agreement by no later than Thursday, March 29 so that we may submit for Commission review. Please advise should you have any questions or if we could facilitate this request in any way. Best regards, Francisca Montes de Oca Office of innovation City of Miami 444 SW 2nd Ave, 10th Floor Miami, FL 33130 office: 305-416-1018 fmontesdeoca@miamigov.com www.miamigov.com Have an idea or suggestion? Click herel This e-mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination. distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachments) from your system. Thank you. This e-mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential information. 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