The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation

05/14/08 -
ALERT: TODAY, 3:15pm EST, Watch Webcast as Rich Moderates Panel at United Way Conference on Advancing the Common Good

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

What do you want, really?

It's a simple enough question, isn't it? What do you want when it comes to your work in public life? I feel rather stupid asking this question because its answer often seems so damn obvious. All that's required is a basic, straightforward response. And yet, truth be told, I find so many of us struggle with what we want, and even more with whether we are really getting to where we want to...
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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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