| What is public innovation, and why do
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Beginning today, Rich Harwood is
inviting readers
to respond to some new thoughts he
has on the notion of public innovation and its
importance in society. His ideas will be
posted in a
three-part series on his blog, Redeeming
Hope.
The blog entries will run between now
and
Wednesday. Next Monday, March 6, Rich will
summarize some of the feedback he receives and
attempt to incorporate it into his recent
thinking.
We hope you'll join us for this
important
conversation and share your insights. Our work
at
The Harwood Institute shows that people across
the
country are searching for new pathways to move
forward in public life. To create those new
pathways,
we must learn to innovate.
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| Harwood partners with national
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To be successful at innovating in
public life,
organizations must pursue highly strategic
initiatives
that add up to more than merely a collection
of good
civic actions, but actually lead to real,
lasting
change. This is certainly not easy in our
society,
where people have retreated from public life,
but this
retreat is precisely why we need public
innovation -
because people need new pathways for stepping
back into the public square.
The Harwood Institute is working with
The Annie.
E. Casey Foundation to help them think more
deeply
about how community change occurs, so that
they
can more effectively develop the kinds of
interventions that will build these new
pathways,
ignite a sense of possiblity and hope in
citizens, and
begin to build a more vibrant public life.
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| The Harwood Public Innovators Lab:
Frequently asked questions
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Over the past few weeks, we've received a
substantial response from people across the
country
regarding our Spring 2006 Harwood Public
Innovators
Lab, scheduled for May 21-25 in Baltimore,
Maryland.
We've received a variety of questions
from
people, but certain ones in particular have
come up
more than others. So, to help you out, we've
compiled those questions and answers on our
Web
site.
If you are thinking about attending
the Lab, we
strongly encourage you to check these out and
sign up
today.
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| Working with The Harwood Institute: An
overview of our intellectual capital and ways
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The Harwood Institute has been working in
communities for almost 20 years. Through our
research and on-the-ground initiatives, we
have
learned a great deal about what it takes to
make
communities work and are constantly searching
for
ways to spread this knowledge and "scale up"
our
efforts in a way that's sustainable, but also
lowers
the
barriers to entry into our content so that
organizations large and small can benefit from
it.
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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
Folks, we need a new kind of public
innovation
in our communities if we are to make the
progress
in public life and politics we all seek.
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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