Now, it's time for the attendees to get involved. Harris Sokoloff from Penn and the Great Expectations project explains that everyone is going to break into small groups to talk about the following questions:
What does it take for a neighborhood to work so that residents can flourish and thrive?
What actions can groups - residents, businesses, community groups, government - can take to strengthen and create those characteristics in neighborhoods?
Each group will spend about 30 minutes on the questions and then everyone will come back together to share their group's ideas. The goal here is a conversation, not a debate, that will come up with some specific ideas.
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