Then they will decide what needs to be done, how to do it and how to pay for it, like people did in Chattanooga. For now, the foundations are continuing to pay the bills. When it is time to implement ideas the people come up with, the community must find the money, he said. That was not a problem in Tennessee. Chattanooga also relied on charitable foundations to start its redevelopment.
People set up a nonprofit organization to lead the way.
A foundation funded it for a decade. They won state money to open a jazz, blues and gospel concert hall. Government leaders did not immediately participate whole-heartedly, Cooper said. McKinsey challenged similar community leaders to come forward in Greensboro.