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Schedule A Initiative Overview: The Mayors Challenge The Mayors Challenge is a competition to inspire cities to generate innovative ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life and that ultimately can be shared and replicated by cities worldwide. Cities are uniquely positioned to encourage and foster the innovation, creativity, ideas, and solutions needed to tackle the pressing social and economic issues facing the world today — as well as meet the challenges of tomorrow. Yet with increasing needs and diminishing budgets, local governments must find innovative new ways to get work done. That is where the Mayors Challenge comes in — a competition for cities that inspires mayors and their partners to develop breakthrough solutions. Once winners are selected, Bloomberg Philanthropies works closely with each city to produce and track results, and capture implementation lessons. At completion of the Grant, successful Mayors Challenge projects will be "replication ready," meaning that they achieved six key criteria: o Projects are implemented at sufficient scale o Evidence has been gathered demonstrating impact o Project model has been refined to reflect learnings from implementation, assessment, and user feedback o Value of the project to other cities is clear, and has been documented o Mayor is publicly engaged and excited to be a worldwide leader on the issue o Project has funding (public/otherwise) to be sustained beyond the 3-year Grant The United States Mayors Challenge awarded prizes (nine $1,000,000 prizes) to the cities that generated the boldest and most replicable ideas. The City of South Bend has been awarded a $1,000,000 prize for use in implementing its winning idea, to help low-income and part-time workers with unreliable transport options commute to their jobs by partnering with ride -share companies and employers. -12-