A City Challenge is a one-year public engagement project in which city officials work with residents to identify and implement resident-designed solutions to some of the city’s most pressing problems. The GovLab, and its partner project The Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, have run City Challenges in 13 cities. The Oakland City Challenge is a partnership between the City of Oakland, Mills College, the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation and the GovLab.