The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation

09/02/08 -
Rich to Attend White House Event on Volunteering

07/18/08 -
Shaping Debate About the Meaning of Patriotism

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

Do you know Governor Palin?

John McCain's selection of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate is raising a helluva lot of questions -- not only about McCain and Palin, but about us. What values and filters do we bring to this scene? What assumptions about other people do we make? How fast are we to judge others? I know there's some risk in what I'm about to say, but here it goes. Over the long Labor Day...
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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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