REGIONAL COOPERATION

The Regional Initiatives Fund (RIF) was formed to make grants to support innovative regional initiatives. RIF operates as a collaborative effort among:


  • Cinergy Foundation
  • The Clermont Fund of GCF
  • Dearborn County Community Foundation
  • Fidelity Foundation
  • The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
  • The Northern Kentucky Fund of GCF
  • Ohio County Community Foundation
  • Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts (Fifth Third Bank, Trustee)
  • Scripps Howard Foundation
  • U.S. Bank Foundation
  • United Way of Greater Cincinnati
  • Warren County Foundation.

Regional Initiatives Fund Grant Recipients

From 2001 to 2005, RIF invested over $1.5 million to support projects aimed at improving regional cooperation and civic engagement.  To learn more about the accomplishments and lessons of the Regional Initiatives Fund, click here for a copy of the 2004 Final Report.

Cincinnati Metropatterns 

The 2001 Cincinnati Metropatterns report, sponsored by the Regional Initiatives Fund, called for regional cooperation to address the related problems of concentrated poverty, urban sprawl and fiscal disparities. Among the findings:

  • The region’s greatest concentration of poverty is in the urban core, where 40% or more of the population lives below poverty.

  • Among the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the country, Cincinnati has one of the most dramatic patterns of separation by race and income.

  • The amount of developed land grew more than three and a half times faster than the population over the past 30 years.

  • The ability of communities to raise revenues from property and earnings taxes varies dramatically across the region.
Contact Information:
Regional Initiatives Fund
c/o The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
200 West Fourth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-2602
(513) 241-2880, ext. 112
(513) 768-6122
Ellen Gilligan, Program Director

METROPOLITAN GROWTH ALLIANCE
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation was a major supporter of the former Metropolitan Growth Alliance, whose mission was to serve as a catalyst for the region's individuals and organizations to act together in making the 13-county Greater Cincinnati area globally competitive, both economically and in quality of life.

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