As a part of Empathy & Connection: A Vision for America at 250, President Lincoln’s Cottage is partnering with The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with nearly 40 years of experience equipping people, organizations, communities, and networks with the tools to bridge divides, build capacity, and tackle shared challenges. The Institute’s practice of Turning Outward has spread to all 50 states across the U.S. and 40 countries around the world.
Rich Harwood, president and founder of the Institute, has been recruited to solve some of the most difficult problems of our time, including being called into Newtown, Connecticut, after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Today, Rich is taking his Campaign for the New Civic Path across the country, declaring that the change we need today is going to start in our local communities when we get on a new civic path.
This partnership includes four key elements:
- An opening kickoff event on June 4engaged people’s imagination around how the new civic path aligns with President Lincoln’s aspirations for our country and what it means in the context of America’s 250th. See the pictures HERE.
- A book series around Rich Harwood’s bestselling book, The New Civic Path: Restoring Our Belief in One Another and Our Nation, including:
- A virtual book circle led by Lincoln’s Cottage where participants will discuss what it will take to spark civic renewal and get our communities and the country on a new trajectory of hope. TICKETS HERE
- An in-person Community Book Talk event with Rich Harwood to go deeper on the book and what the new civic path really means for our communities. TICKETS HERE
- The Harwood Institute’s annual Harwood Summit at President Lincoln’s Cottage, convening a national audience of community leaders to President Lincoln’s Cottage and highlighting the alignment in values between the two organizations. Please visit https://theharwoodinstitute.org/summitfor more information.
This partnership is the next step in President Lincoln’s Cottage’s effort to cultivate and lift up the brave ideas of all who are taking on Lincoln’s “unfinished work” in pursuit of a more perfect union.
Rich Harwood, President & Founder of The Harwood Institute
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