Minneapolis leaders and neighbors are working to strengthen connections across the city and build trust, especially as the community reels from recent violence .
Resident and city visitors at Neighborhood Day got the chance to cultivate meaningful relationships, with about 40% of Minneapolis neighborhoods holding events for community building.
“The motivation is really to get more people involved in the neighborhood organizations, to make sure that all voices are being heard, and then information from those neighborhoods come upwards to elected officials, city departments and so more folks that are involved in everyday activities and everyday decision making, the more powerful city as a whole is together,” said Steven Gallagher, the neighborhoods program manager for the City of Minneapolis…