The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation

06/18/08 -
Rich Addresses the United Way's NPC

05/29/08 -
How Can We Live United and Advance the Common Good

05/26/08 -
Rich quoted in Tampa Bay Tribune article on patriotism

04/28/08 -
Harwood Institute Helps Shape Newest Public Radio Show: The Takeaway

Yet Another Patriotism Hangover

Maybe it's no accident that Senators Obama and McCain are knee-deep in a war of words over the meaning of patriotism as July 4th approaches. But when our two presidential candidates spend their days in a war of words over patriotism, the queasiness from my post 9/11 patriotism hangover comes racing back. Unfortunately, the after-taste is strong and the symptoms are all-too-familiar. The...
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Make Hope Real in Your Community

Hope has again become a buzzword for political candidates, but how do we create the conditions for change in our own neighborhood, in our organizations and our communities?

Make Hope Real, the latest essay from Richard Harwood discusses 5 key factors to making hope real in our communities.

The essay is a tool for both understanding the challenges of creating change, as well as a way to begin a national discussion about authentic hope and the future of our communities.

To create hope we must create change, and change requires us to make choices -- a different set of choices than before. The essay Make Hope Real, gives readers an opportunity to explore ways they can accelerate change in their community and make hope real.

Hope Unraveled
The People's Retreat and Our Way Back

In Hope Unraveled: The People's Retreat and Our Way Back, author Richard C. Harwood argues that we are not a nation divided between red states and blue states, urban and rural, secular and spiritual. The problem facing our society is in fact much deeper and more troubling: We are a nation in retreat from politics and public life.

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