Three guest bloggers to join Rich Harwood for online dialogue

Thursday, April 20, 2006

(The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation)This Monday, Rich Harwood will be blogging about the important insights and lessons from a recent convening the Institute led in Las Vegas, as part of our strategic partnership with the Nevada Community Foundation. He will be joined by three guest bloggers who attended the convening:

• David Hooker, vice president of community building, Center for Working Families, Inc. (Atlanta, GA);
  
• Reggie Lewis, executive vice president for community impact, United Way of Essex and West Hudson (Newark, NJ); and
  
• Nancy Wilson, director and associate dean, University College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University (Medford, MA)

Rich's guests will be engaging him in an online dialogue about the convening. Their thoughts will post on Tuesday. Rich will respond again, and our hope is that this conversation will continue throughout the week, with other guests of the convening and all people in our online community joining in to share their thoughts and ideas. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate.
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.

Rich Harwood's Redeeming Hope blog has been called "an oasis" for people seeking an alternative voice for politics and public life. It is a fresh forum to share ideas, engage in thoughtful conversation, and collectively innovate.

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