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.
Read MoreRich Harwood, president and founder of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, is creating a studio within The Harwood Institute to support special efforts to advance new ideas for strengthening communities and society in a rapidly changing world. He is looking for two studio associates to begin work this year.
Read MoreUse this workbook to go through seven different ways that you can infuse civic engagement practices throughout your public work
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreAnother Veterans Day passed last week with all the pomp and ceremonies and solemnness we have come to expect - and that many of us cherish as we honor those who have protected us, especially in an increasingly dangerous world. What I didn't expect was to learn that the NFL and many of its teams (along with professional basketball, baseball and hockey, among others) have been paid to honor our soldiers at games.
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