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Rich Harwood is President and Founder of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation.

Education

Rich Harwood grew up in upstate New York. He attended Skidmore College and graduated in 1982 with a degree in political economy. During his undergraduate career, he served as the National President of COPUS (Coalition of Private University Students), a financial aid advocacy group for students attending private institutions.^[1] He also worked for over a year at the [https://theharwoodinstitute.org/richs-blog-posts/2011/01/tucson-aftermath-and-mental-illness Saratoga County Mental Health Crisis Center].^[2] Post undergraduate, he was selected as a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and he obtained a Master’s of Public Administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs in 1984.

Early Career

After completing his graduate studies, Harwood spent time in politics and worked on over 20 political campaigns by the time he was 23 years old. He later began working at Public Agenda, a research and engagement non-profit organization, where he was mentored by the founder of the organization, Daniel Yankelovich. He became Director of Issues Research at Public Agenda before he began working with [https://www.jff.org/ Jobs for the Future], a nonprofit focused on increasing economic opportunity through education and workforce transformation. He served as Director of Policy & Communications for two years before founding his own organization.

The Harwood Group

Rich Harwood founded The Harwood Group in 1988 as a for-profit, entrepreneurial organization focused on civic and public life.^[3] In 1991, The Harwood Group produced a first-of-its-kind report, Citizens and Politics: A View from Main Street.^[3] This report brought the work of The Harwood Group to the national stage. The company went on to transform some of the largest newsrooms in the country, including newspapers like The Arizona Republic, The Virginian-Pilot, the Orange County Register, helping them address their declines in readership and their need to be connected to their communities.^[3] Harwood founded The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, a non-profit arm, in 1998.^[3] The Harwood Institute and The Harwood Group co-existed for some time before consolidating into one nonprofit entity.

The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation

[https://theharwoodinstitute.org/ The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation] is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates internationally. The Institute operates through researching change in communities and through training organizations, communities, and individuals in a practice called “Turning Outward.” The “Turning Outward” approach trains individuals to “use the community, not the conference room” as the reference point for choices and judgements. The Harwood Institute is currently operating in all 50 states and 40 countries, and partners with organizations like United Way Worldwide, Goodwill Industries International, AARP, The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, The American Library Association, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.^[4]

As the President of The Harwood Institute, Harwood has worked with communities across the country and internationally. He facilitated Newtown, Connecticut's unanimous decision on the fate of Sandy Hook Elementary, where 26 children and adults were killed in December 2012. Harwood’s written works include The Work of Hope: How Individuals and Organizations Can Authentically Do Good; Hope Unraveled; Make Hope Real; and Why We’re Here: The Powerful Impact of Public Broadcasters When They Turn Outward. He has also written numerous studies and articles, and has appeared on national media including MSNBC, NPR, CNN's Inside Politics, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Special Report with Brit Hume, and C-SPAN.^[5]

References

1. ^[https://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/FAs/co1000-162.xml]
2. ^[https://theharwoodinstitute.org/richs-blog-posts/2011/01/tucson-aftermath-and-mental-illness]
3. ^¹²³[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-c-harwood/where-weve-been_b_6310092.html]
4. ^[https://theharwoodinstitute.org/]
5. ^[https://theharwoodinstitute.org/]