The Fund for Our Economic Future is pleased to announce that it will host the second round of the EfficientGovNow competition in 2010. Fund members approved the second round at its quarterly meeting earlier today. Read more in the news release.
Government officials, the public and the media encouraged the Fund to do the competition again. We expect to attract even more government collaboration proposals, and we anticipate that even more of the region’s residents will want a say in which proposals deserve the Fund’s grant money.
In July, 2009, more than 13,000 residents voted to decide which three proposals deserved the grant dollars from the first iteration of the competition. See the results of the inaugural run of EfficientGovNow.
One change that has been made for the second round of EfficientGovNow is that the Fund has reserved the option to award a fourth grant to a deserving collaboration that doesn’t garner enough votes to land in the top three.
Government officials and residents in smaller communities shared with us their concern that as more residents vote in EfficientGovNow it becomes harder for them to compete for votes with larger communities. The Fund wants to encourage government collaboration across all communities in the 16 counties of Northeast Ohio – large and small. We hope that the prospect of winning an additional grant encourages an increased number of smaller communities to participate in EfficientGovNow.
Governments will be able to download the RFP package for the competition on January 6, 2010. And the public will vote in May to determine the grant recipients. The recipients will be announced in June.