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One Way to Get Communities to Work Together: Pay Them!

We've heard the calls for regional cooperation before from select politicians, and on the editorial pages of the Plain Dealer. Still, real progress on the collaboration front is plodding at best. Now the Fund for Our Economic Future is hoping to give the effort a boost. It's offering communities money for economic development projects. There's just one catch.The projects have to be collaborative in nature. The Fund's Chris Thompson told ideastream®'s Eric Wellman that the public will decide on the winning projects.

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