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Hope and Change in Canada
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
(The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation)Hope and Change in
Canada
Last
week United Way leaders from across Canada
gathered in Canmore, Alberta
to discuss how they could accelerate change in
their communities and
measure impact. As part of the multi-day
meetings these leaders
invited Rich Harwood to speak about the
importance of The 3A's of
Public Life (authority, authenticity and
accountability) and about how
United Ways can more fully turn outward toward
the community. 
The day-long conversation included
United Way leaders from Vancouver to
Halifax,
from Edmonton and Calgary to Winnipeg, and
Toronto who spoke
passionately about their desire to create
change in their communities.The drive to create hope and change is bubbling up in
communities everywhere
and we're excited to
expand our work and our network of public
innovators to Canada and beyond.
From
20 years of work in communities we know that
public innovators face
serious challenges, and how critical it is to
develop a network of
leaders with a shared notion of what it takes
to create change and make
hope real to provide inspiration, guidance,
ideas and support.
You can help us
create a broader, more cohesive network
by sharing copies
of Make Hope Real
with those in your organization or
community. For other ideas about
how to be more involved in building the Harwood
Network contact Aaron
Leavy, National Program Manager at aleavy@theharwoodinstitute.org