Budgeting for What Works Sprint

Starts:  Sep 10, 2025 01:00 PM (ET)
Ends:  Oct 8, 2025 02:30 PM (ET)

  • This opportunity is exclusively for Certified Cities.

  • Registration deadline: August 21, 2025.

  • Sprint start date and time: September 10th, 2025 at 1pm ET.

  • Sprint end date and time: October 8th, 2025 at 2:30pm ET.

  • Frequency: Sprint sessions will be held weekly on Wednesdays.

  • Duration: 5 weeks.

  • Audience: All roles in city budget teams that have both the authority and ability to facilitate systemic changes to their organization’s budget process.

  • Language: The sessions will be run in English with live interpretation to Spanish and/or Portuguese as required.

Sprint Overview

Local governments invest more than $2.9 trillion each year to help improve economic mobility for their residents and provide services that have a significant impact on the day-to-day quality of life of residents. And yet decision-makers can’t always show that city spending decisions will produce the intended results. City government budget leaders are increasingly being tasked with maximizing the impact of spending while balancing a shrinking budget. By investing in proven solutions and measuring what works, cities can deliver on the promise of moving their communities forward. Space is limited, register today!

Who should participate in this Sprint?

  • This opportunity is exclusively for Certified Cities.

  • Participant staff members should be in city budget teams that have both the authority and ability to facilitate systemic changes to their organization’s budget process.

This course will put you on the path to achieving the following WWC Criteria:

BF1.1: Data-Driven Budget and Financial Processes

Your local government requires budget and financial processes to be aligned with strategic priorities and performance, data, or evidence. To qualify, please provide an example in one the following three categories: - Expenditures example: The processes for expenditures (operational budget, capital planning, etc.) require proposals, requests, and/or renewals be tied to strategic priorities and performance, data, or evidence. - Strategic Investments example: The process for strategic investment proposals, requests, and/or renewals is tied to strategic priorities and performance, data, or evidence. - Revenues example: Revenue proposals and/or changes are aligned with strategic priorities and tied to performance, data, or evidence

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About What Works Cities

This learning opportunity and more are available to staff in cities that have completed our online self-Assessment for What Works Cities Certification. The What Works Cities Certification program, launched in 2017 by Bloomberg Philanthropies and led by Results for America, is the first-of-its-kind standard of excellence for data-driven, well-managed local government. Open to cities in North and South America with a population of at least 30,000, What Works Cities Certification welcomes cities at all points in their data journey. Take the Assessment, join our Community and lead with data!