The Fund for Our Economic Future, in conjunction with the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, The Lozick Family Foundation, and DriveOhio, announce the launch of The Paradox Prize. The Paradox Prize seeks to invest in big ideas that help Northeast Ohioans who are stranded economically by their geography. The ideas will…
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The Fund for Our Economic Future, in conjunction with the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, The Lozick Family Foundation, and DriveOhio, announce the launch of The Paradox Prize. The Paradox Prize seeks to invest in big ideas that help Northeast Ohioans who are stranded economically by their geography. The ideas will…
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The Fund for Our Economic Future is putting $1 million behind an effort to help solve what it calls the Transportation Paradox: “No car, no job; no job, no car.” The economic development nonprofit has created what it’s calling the Paradox Prize to reward ideas that help Northeast Ohioans stranded economically by geography connect to…
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Worker mobility, or transportation to available employment, stands as a barrier for many people who live in urban areas or are spread throughout Northeast Ohio. During the next three years, through a series of rolling deadlines, the Paradox Prize will provide funding to support up to 15 innovative pilot projects that will “help Northeast Ohioans…
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Introducing a new podcast called Merge Now, a weekly series of conversations with the people who are helping to shape the mobility technologies of tomorrow.
It’s the classic chicken-or-egg paradox, but in transportation terms: If you have no car, you can’t get a job. If you have no job, you can’t buy a car.
Too many of the region’s workers face an intractable scenario: no car, no job; no job, no car. This stems from a set of untenable choices: a commute by public transit that can be as long as three hours a day, an expensive car commute that can consume more than an hour’s worth of wages…
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Residents across Northeast Ohio are faced with an untenable choice: a commute by public transit that can be as long as three hours every day, an expensive commute by car that can consume more than an hour’s worth of wages, or a significantly smaller set of employment options closer to home. Too many residents find…
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