In a political era in which government is often blamed as a problem rather than a solution, Harvard University’s Innovations in American Government Awards hopes to show the converse can be true. And one of its six finalists – out of 563 applicants from around the country – is Healthy San Francisco.
The city’s first-of-its-kind universal health care program is up against New York City’s NYC Service, which connects volunteers with service opportunities; a separate New York City antipoverty program; Littleton, Colo.’s home-grown business program; a job creation program in Oregon; and an apprenticeship program for Boston teachers.
The finalists will receive $10,000 and the winner, to be announced early next year, will receive $100,000. The money is designed to help the winners replicate their efforts in other cities. Previous winners include programs begun elsewhere that have been adopted in San Francisco, including New York City’s crime-tracking program called CompStat and Chicago’s 311 phone system. San Francisco has won twice before – in 1998 for a program to help prostitutes and in 2004 for an effort to stop violence in prisons.
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