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

03/27/08 -
Columbia Missourian Runs Rich's Blog as Op-Ed

03/19/08 -
Washington Times Article on Obama Speech Quotes Harwood

03/12/08 -
Rich Speaks to Hundreds of Volunteers in Sonoma

Not All Hope Is Created Equal

My fear all along has been that "hope" would become a casualty of this campaign - that its very meaning and currency would be diminished through overuse and sloganeering. Now, on the day of the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic Primaries, I wanted to return to this topic to make an urgent case for a particular meaning of hope in politics and public life. For not all hope is...
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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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