The Harwood Institute is pleased to announce that Cheryl Gorman is the first recipient of the Harwood Public Innovator Excellence Award. The Institute will present this award to individuals who embody what it means to be a public innovator, demonstrating their ability to create positive change in people’s lives with courage, humility, and integrity. Gorman accepted the award at the Institute’s Board of Directors meeting in Bethesda, Md., Feb. 1.

Use this workbook to go through seven different ways that you can infuse civic engagement practices throughout your public work

The Turning Outward approach helped this United Way go from being seen primarily as a "pass-through" for money from donors to agencies, to a credible leader that could be a backbone for supporting large-scale action on education.

A local education foundation Turns Outward and uses knowledge from the community to build public will to drive major changes in education  in a community where meaningful progress had been absent for years. 

A public radio station in Las Vegas, Nevada, learns how to put the community at the center of their decision making, which leads to changes in what they cover and how they see their role in the community. All of this leads to more listeners and more resources.

A coalition of organizations work together to create strategies to get kids on a better path to high school graduation while also working deliberately to combat the negative conditions that have been stifling progress in this community for decades community.

A small United Way in Bakersfield, CA, realizes through Turning Outward that they need to shift their strategies in the community to better fit the capacity of the community to work together. Small changes make a huge difference and lead to major results.