A collective gesture
Aquele Abraço
A line along the ocean became a shared promise to care for the places that connect us.
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Cities of Seven Continents
Local proof. Global possibility.
C7 finds people and organizations already solving shared urban challenges, then gives their work the context, connections, and visibility to travel.
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Find what works
Look for local practice already delivering results.
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Add context
Connect it to the people, evidence, and places around it.
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Help it travel
Give proven work the visibility to move between cities.
Featured story
A billion seconds is long enough to change a city.
C7 finds practical ideas already working at street level, gives them context, and helps them travel to the next city.
Read the storyGrants & sponsorships
Where our support has gone.
Years of grants and sponsorships — the practical, ongoing work behind C7, most recent first.
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- $1,500
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- Organizations supported
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Our ecosystem
A city is a living system.
From policy to local organizations to the individuals making it run — the places, groups, and people C7 works with, together in one view.
Rio de Janeiro
A coastal metropolis where culture, climate, density, and civic imagination collide in public view.
ExploreRoute Institute
A civil-society organization turning environmental awareness into visible, repeatable action along Brazil's coast.
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Flávio Gomes
Flávio Gomes founded Horta na Favela in Rocinha, tackling food insecurity through urban agriculture, wet-waste recycling, tilapia aquaculture and environmental education toward a "sustainable favela".
ExploreCities Engine
Intelligence for the world’s cities.
High-resolution data connects every public story to a broader urban landscape—so a useful intervention can be understood, compared, and moved.
11,000+cities in the shared intelligence layer
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Signals from the network.
01 · Cities Summit
The G20 Whale
Volunteers painted a life-size humpback whale across 25 panels. It was assembled on Ipanema Beach during G20 week, then again at the Brazilian Surf Championship in São Conrado.
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Cleaning the Beach Changes the Beachgoer: C7's 2024 Sponsorship of Route Institute
Across the second half of 2024, C7 sponsored eleven Route Institute cleanup actions from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo — removing hundreds of kilograms of waste and, more importantly, changing how thousands of people see their relationship with it.
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Power tools in the Cities Engine
The advanced features — João as an analyst copilot, search that understands meaning, the AI discovery console that grows the directory, and the read-only feed that tracks what changed.
Read the storyWhat we do
We scale good ideas.
Our vision is to add a rung to the bottom of the ladder—making cities greener, healthier, happier, and more connected.
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Aquele Abraço
A collective gesture—arms open to the ocean, hearts aligned with the planet. What begins as a hug becomes awareness, connection, and care.
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Campaigns and Media
Stories and public actions that make complex issues impossible to ignore.
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(T)RASH
When we look closer, waste becomes reflection and trash turns into truth. What we discard can help us rebuild ideas, values, and our relationship with the planet.
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Cities Summit
Five events in Rio de Janeiro during the 2024 G20, bringing together experts, officials, community leaders, and entrepreneurs around urban-ocean sustainability.
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Cities Engine
Structured intelligence for understanding, comparing, and improving cities.
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Cities Combinator
A network effect for solutions ready to move between places and practitioners.
Why C7
Progress has many voices.
“C7 recognises that cities are the key nodes in our global society, and that if we can progress them fairly it will serve the benefit of the majority.”
— Deborah Avila “We have more in common than that which divides us. C7 wants to elevate discourse to a problem-solving mindset.”
— Sam Lombardo “Successful systems are transferable across our planet, and everyone deserves open access to growth.”
— James Forster
Become part of the change
Let a good idea travel farther.
Bring a city, a proven intervention, a story, or the support that helps useful work move.
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