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In the My Philadelphia contest, students from Philadelphia shared their visions of the city. Check out the winning entries.
Film Contest
Great Expectations challenged area filmmakers to tell us their hopes and fears for Philadelphia. They spoke about their aspirations, their concerns, their prayers for the city. Watch the films.
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Tight times, tough choices
Hundreds of people who are concerned about the city turned out for four community forums held in February 2009.
The events explored what Philadelphia taxpayers think about the ideas and services that are on the chopping block in the next city budget. Participants identified priorities and the trade-offs they are willing to make to reach those priorities.
For full coverage, check out "It's Our City" at WHYY and the Penn Project for Civic Engagment. There, you can find the final report, moderator reports, video testimonials and news coverage.
(Illustration by Tim Ogline)
The Big Canvas Collection
The Big Canvas Collection brings together all the elements of 2008 Big Canvas project, which focused on funding arts and culture in the Phila. region. More than 200 citizens took part in the final event, The Big Convas Confab.
For those new to the discussion, take a look at our Summary of Findings from the fall and summer community forums.
Making community forums work
GE's Harris Sokoloff offers his take on the budget forums being held by Mayor Nutter.
• The Inquirer: "Budget forums should dig deeper into issues"
• The Daily News: "Making town hall meetings work"
• It's Our Money blog: "Pleasant surprises from the mayor at town hall meetings"
A City That Works
Mayor Nutter and his top aides have promised to use input from A City That Works forums to help shape performance standards and customer-service expectations.
You can read Chris Satullo's column on the topic, see what attendees were talking about, and check out what our citizen bloggers had to say.
People are talking ...
Find out what people ranging from the Philadelphia mayor to the chairman of the Parks Department have to say about the Great Expectations project.
You can weigh in on the project and its activities by becoming a member of the Great Expectations Web site and leaving a comment for us.
On the blog
Check out our citizen bloggers' reports about our arts and culture forums, or look back through previous entries on other topics.
Don't forget to update your online bookmarks to get to our new blog site. All entries prior to June 19 will continue to be located at our former blog site.
