Initiatives of Change - Hope in the Cities

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This program was launched in Virginia, USA, in 1990 to address the issue of racial healing.

Its goal and mission is to create just and inclusive communities through reconciliation among racial, ethnic and religious groups based on personal and institutional transformation.

It offers various dialogue modules such as relationship-building, public policy engagement, multifaith dialogues, education and action, facilitator training and leadership training through Connecting Communities Fellowship Program.

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The conversation that is already happening >>

It was inevitable that sooner or later race would insert itself into the presidential campaign. My friend Mike McQuillan, a veteran community organizer, former Senate adviser and founding member of the Hope in the Cities network, likens it to an old coffee pot that keeps percolating. Every few years something happens that brings the vexed issue bubbling to the surface, says McQuillan who lives in Brooklyn.
Robert Corcoran, United States, 26 March 2008

	A Vision Built on Trust >> IofC-USA Executive Director Don Cowles calls for an investment in the work of building trust in order to realize the full potential of the metropolitan Richmond region. 24 March 2008

	Releasing the Innovative Spirit >> Can we create an environment that encourages and rewards innovation and risk? Four hundred and fifty Richmond leaders wrestled with this question at Metropolitan Richmond Day organized by Hope in the Cities on 8 Nov as they considered the future of the region’s schools. 20 November 2007