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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Richard C. Harwood is founder and
president of The Harwood Institute for Public
Innovation, a nonprofit, catalytic organization
dedicated to helping people find new pathways
to imagine and act for the public good. For
nearly two decades, Harwood has led the charge
to redeem hope in public life and politics,
discovering how to create change in the face of
negative conditions. He has developed new kinds
of public innovators and civic-minded
organizations in dozens of communities across
the country. Harwood has devoted his energies
to spreading a vision for what American society
should be and putting innovative practices to
use on the ground that turn that vision into
reality. Among his many publications, he is the
author of Hope Unraveled: The People’s
Retreat and Our Way Back (Kettering Foundation
Press, 2005)
