EDA Seeks Public Comments On New Competition
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) has issued a request for public comments on the structure of Economic Visioning Challenge, part of the recently announced Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) initiative (see the 07/13/11 issue for details). EDA will administer the challenge, which will competitively select six cities to receive $1 million grants so that those cities can offer an "X-prize style" competition to develop economic and community development proposals. Read the request...