| An overview of catalytic
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The Harwood Institute defines a
catalytic
organization as one that is not only effective
at
achieving its mission, but also builds
community while
doing its work. These kinds of organizations
are one
of the key ingredients for developing the
networks,
norms, relationships, and structures - what we
call
public capital - that are the foundation of
vibrant
communities and a robust public life.
How can organizations become
catalytic, and
how can catalytic organizations deepen their
capacity to create change?
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Last week, we asked you to check out
a list of
questions on our Web site that
would
help you
determine whether you were a public innovator
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individuals who, like catalytic organizations,
are
needed to make communities work.
Now, we'd like to hear from you.
What do you think it means to be a
public
innovator? Did the questions provoke any
thoughts
you'd like to share? If so, please e-mail us and let us
know. We'd love to hear
from you and may even share some of your
comments.
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| Profile of a public innovator - and a
cataytic organization - on the American
frontier |
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The Las Vegas-based Nevada Community
Foundation
(NCF) is currently engaged in a partnership
with The
Harwood Institute to deepen their capacity as
a
catalytic organization to help build the
public capital
of America's fastest growing region.
Bret Bicoy, president of NCF, recently
spoke with
The Harwood Institute to share his views on
our work
together.
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| Harwood heads to key states to discuss
the people's retreat; events open to the
public |
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Last week, Rich Harwood spoke to an audience
at the
prestigious Commonwealth Club in San Francisco
as
part of The Harwood Institute's efforts to
engage
citizens on the people's retreat from politics
and
public life, and how we can begin to reverse
that
retreat and forge an alternate path.
Now, Rich is gearing up to head to the
president's
home state of Texas and New Hampshire, site of
the
first presidential primary of 2008, to
continue his
nationwide conversation with citizens.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential
Library will
host Rich March 14 for a public forum on
Hope
Unraveled: The People's Retreat and Our Way
Back. He will speak the following night in
Dallas at
an event sponsored by the University of Texas
at
Dallas and KERA-Dallas Public Radio.
The following week, on March 22, Rich
will be in
Manchester, New Hampshire, speaking at another
public forum hosted by the New Hampshire
Institute
of Politics.
If you live in any of these areas and
would like to
attend these events, be sure to check out
Rich's
schedule, which is updated regularly.
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- We believe in the
innate
goodness of individuals
and the possibility
for
change.
- We seek for people to imagine
and act for
the
public good so that we can all do
the
unfinished
work
of our communities and the nation.
- Together, we must create
the conditions for
people to tap their potential to make a difference
and
join together to build a common future.
- Our aim is to ignite a
sense of possibility
and
hope in America.
- We must create more
advocates for
public
life.
Rich
Harwood's
Redeeming Hope
blog
An authentic voice
for
public
life
This past week in San Francisco and
Silicon Valley, I
was asked the same question three different
times, in
three different places, in a matter of hours:
“Can
religion bring us together in public life and
politics?”
My response: Yes, but many on the right, and
now
on the left, must change.
Read the entire blog
entry...
Hope
Unraveled
The
People's
Retreat
and Our Way Back
 The conventional wisdom driving
today's politics and public life is dead
wrong. We
have been told that we are a nation divided
along
lines of red and blue, religious and secular,
urban and
rural. But Hope Unraveled points to a
different
problem.
More on Rich's latest
book
Purchase at
Amazon.com
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