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In January 2007, the Knight Creative Communities Initiative (KCCI), a partnership between the Knight Foundation and Richard Florida's Creative Class Group, selected Tallahassee as one of three regions in the nation to participate in a community-driven project that aimed to build sustained regional economic prosperity. Tallahassee was chosen due to its high concentration of jobs in government and education and its consistent inability to attract and retain members of the creative sector, which social theorist Richard Florida argues is the driving force of economic development.