The Cities of Service Leadership Grants provide recipient cities with $200,000 over a two-year period to hire a Chief Service Officer, a senior city official dedicated to developing and implementing a citywide plan to increase volunteerism and target volunteers to address their city's greatest needs.

The winners of the first round of Cities of Service Leadership Grants, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, were announced on January 18, 2010, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. The 10 recipient cities are as follows:

Chicago, IL – Mayor Richard Daley
Detroit, MI – Mayor Dave Bing
Los Angeles, CA – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Nashville-Davidson County, TN – Mayor Karl Dean
Newark, NJ – Mayor Cory Booker
Omaha, NE – Mayor Jim Suttle
Philadelphia, PA – Mayor Michael Nutter
Sacramento, CA – Mayor Kevin Johnson
Savannah, GA – Mayor Otis Johnson
Seattle, WA – Mayor Mike McGinn

Due to the extraordinary response to the first round of grants, a second round of Cities of Service Leadership Grants is being funded jointly by the Rockefeller Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The winners of the second round were announced on June 30, 2010 at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. The 10 recipient cities are as follows:

Atlanta, GA – Mayor Kasim Reed
Austin, TX – Mayor Lee Leffingwell
Baltimore, MD – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Baton Rouge, LA – Mayor Melvin “Kip” Holden
Chula Vista, CA – Mayor Cheryl Cox
Houston, TX – Mayor Annise Parker
Little Rock, AR – Mayor Mark Stodola
Orlando, FL – Mayor Buddy Dyer
Pittsburgh, PA – Mayor Luke Ravenstahl
Richmond, VA – Mayor Dwight Clinton Jones