Coles Together is a non-profit economic development organization for Coles County, Illinois. It was founded in 1988 by a partnership between the public and private sectors to provide full-time economic development support for new and existing industry in Coles County.[1]

Coles Together provides the industrial sector with resources and services needed to locate or expand a development within the community. This includes marketing, finance, and project packaging.[1]

The organization actively pursued and was selected as the host site for FutureGen, a public-private partnership to build the world's first near-zero-emissions coal-based power plant in Mattoon, Illinois. The plant would have been the first near-zero-emissions coal-fired power plant built in the United States.[2]

The president of Coles Together is Angela Griffin.[1]

In 2009, the America's Power Factuality Tour interviewed Angela Griffin to report on FutureGen's potential impact on the local economy and its role in generating electricity in the United States.[3]

Coles Together website

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About: Coles Together". Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
  2. ↑ "Coles Together seeks prospects with 280 jobs, leaders tell councils". Archived from the original on 2009-06-26. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
  3. ↑ "Video interview with Angela Griffin, CEO and president of Coles Together". Retrieved 2009-09-23.
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