An early emphasis on communications has helped clarify what Making Connections in Hartford is all about, provided an opportunity for people from two very diverse neighborhoods to work together on common issues and developed a group of residents and community organization leaders who understand both the importance of media and the way to get a community’s messages out through the media.
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