Join Rich and his guests in an online dialogue next week

Monday, April 17, 2006

(The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation)Next week, Rich Harwood, along with several guest bloggers, will be presenting some ideas that came out of a recent convening The Harwood Institute hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, to discuss our partnership there with the Nevada Community Foundation and their efforts to become a more catalytic organization.

Topics will include such issues as:

• Our notions of time, and what they mean for change work within organizations and throughout the community;
  
• The need for organizations to be both ruthlessly strategic and hopeful, even if it appears that it requires us to move in two opposite directions simultaneously;
  
• Employing mechanisms effectively versus being "mechanistic" in our approach to change work; and
  
• The role of boundary-spanning organizations in a society that is becoming more specialized, more niche-oriented, and more fragmented.

If you are interested in these issues, would like to learn more about our work to create community change, or simply want to engage in a wide-ranging discussion around building community, then you should log on to Rich's Redeeming Hope blog next week and share your comments.

The series will run throughout the week, beginning Monday, April 24.

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