Reading’s Ripples of Change: A New Culture of Shared Responsibility (2024)
About: A ripple effect report for Reading, PA, prepared by The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation in partnership with Berks Alliance, Centro Hispano, United Way of Berks County, and The Wyomissing Foundation.
Authors: Richard C. Harwood, Michael Prihoda, Oluwagbemiga Dasylva, and John Conroy
Publish Date: 2024
Description: In 2022, The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation released Reading Thriving, Together: A New Agenda for Education and the Community, which outlined a nine-point community-driven education equity agenda to address key issues and strengthen Reading’s civic culture. When the report came out, four local organizations—Centro Hispano, United Way of Berks County, Wyomissing Foundation, and Berks Alliance—stepped forward to fund and lead the next phase of the work, in which community members learned the Harwood approach of Turning Outward and formed three teams around education agenda items that were ripe for new action—English as a Second Language, After- and Out-of-School Activities, and Early Childhood Education.
Today, just two years later, each team has unleashed a chain reaction of actions that is creating both change on education issues that matter to people and strengthening the community’s civic culture. At a time when so many community initiatives seem to stall out or fade away, Reading is creating real systemic change by taking a different approach.
Reading’s Ripples of Change is a progress report and a roadmap for growing and accelerating change over time.
Ripple Effects Illustrations
Click the images below to download and print copies of each team’s ripple effects illustration.
ASA Team
Equipo ASA
ECE Team
Equipo ECE
ESL Team
Equipo ESL
All Teams
Todos los equipos
