Getting Communities to Collaborate is a Challenging Task

An update now on a story we brought you several months back. The Fund For Our Economic Future put out a challenge to northeast Ohio communities. The group offered to give $300 thousand toward a development project, with just one catch. That project has to be a collaboration between multiple communities. 65 proposals have been submitted. The public will help decide the winner later this year. As this process rolls on, the group has brought in a nationally known expert. David Osborne is the author of several books on the topic of regionalism. He spoke with ideastream®'s Eric Wellman.