What do you love about Akron? from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.

Knight Foundation held a very successful Community Engagement Workshop in Akron this week.

Drawing on his book, For the Love of Cities, and the Knight Foundation’s ground-breaking research project, the Soul of the Community, author Peter Kageyama led over 200 people in an interactive workshop to help Akron develop ideas toward becoming more lovable community where people want to put down roots and build careers and lives.

Both Kageyama’s work and the Knight Foundation survey explore how people’s emotional attachment to where they live affects a community’s livelihood.

The half-day workshop  produced at least one great idea  – “Cleaning Up Akron is a Slam Dunk”  and Knightawarded a small group a $500 grant to get it off the ground.