The Urban Agenda is not a new program or an initiative advocating programmatic change. Instead, the Urban Agenda emphasizes systemic change, striving to reform structures, alter practices and shift mindsets to bring about long-term solutions. Community initiatives tend to be program-based. These play important roles in addressing societal challenges and improving communities, but they typically do not focus on, nor have the capacity for, sweeping, population-level change. Population-level change requires an emphasis on systems, an understanding of intersecting factors and coordinated action. The Urban Agenda advocates a collective impact approach toward a consensus vision for improving economic mobility and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.