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Our Future Direction
Thursday, August 9, 2007
(The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation)
Tired of business as
usual? Join us in making hope
real...
For
almost 20 years, we've been evolving both the
ideas and practical approaches for changing the
negative conditions in society that too often
divide people and keep them from making
progress in their neighborhoods, communities,
and the nation as a whole.
We must create an alternate path for our politics and our public life. Here's our plan...
Our current work is focused on bringing to scale our innovations so that people and organizations across the nation can gain affordable access to our content and make it their own. Central to these efforts is our work to cultivate new public innovators and build new boundary spanning organizations that will serve as catalysts for change and hope in communities across the nation.
Moving forward, our work will focus on five key areas:
- Annual Public Innovators Summit - a safe space in which leading public innovators and leaders explore underlying issues in public life and rejuvenate themselves.
- Public Innovators Lab - a highly focused learning experience for cultivating the sensibilities and practices of public innovators to create change and authentic hope through the application of Institute-s ideas, frameworks, and tools.
- Strategic Alliances - relationships with nationally networked organizations to embed our ideas, frameworks, and tools in ways that accelerate and deepen an organization’s work in public life and communities. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is the inaugural alliance, and is focused on incubating new ways for public television and radio to strengthen civic health and deepen their local significance.
- Public Innovators Portal - developing new online site where people can learn about, use, and spread our ideas, frameworks, and tools, and to create a new knowledge base and network for themselves, organizations, and communities.
- Public Innovators Network - a national network of public innovators who are dedicated to learn, work and innovate together to create change and authentic hope.
We believe as individuals, and as a nation, we can ALL do better...
Through our work, we seek nothing less than to spark fundamental change and authentic hope in American public life - so that people can tap their own potential to make a difference and join together to make hope real.