Nationally Aired Public Radio Show and Innovative Nonprofit Introduce Partnership

Online, May 2, 2011 (Newswire.com) - State of the Re:Union (SOTRU), a nationally aired public radio show, is announcing a content partnership with The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. As part of the collaboration, the show's website will feature both new and existing articles by Rich Harwood, a man who has been called "one of the great thinkers in American public life." He is also founder and president of The Harwood Institute, a nationally recognized change organization.. The two organizations naturally came together, sharing a similar ethos and a solution-oriented focus.

"If we are to improve our communities," says Rich Harwood, "then we need to release ourselves from the resignation that public life has to be the way it is today or what it was 10, 20, 30 years ago. We must declare that it can be better, that we can be better!"

Harwood is a leading national authority on improving America's communities, raising standards of political conduct and re-engaging citizens on today's most complex and controversial public issues. His unique voice follows the tone of SOTRU - both shining a positive light on the true spirit of America's unique communities and people's desire to make a difference.

Harwood's guest posts will begin on May 17, 2011 and will be featured every Tuesday. His contributions will cover a wide spectrum of community related topics ranging from engaging citizens to matters concerning natural resources. The State of the Re:Union website features audio from all of its radio episodes, as well as supplemental materials, articles and multimedia items.

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About The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation: Founded by Richard C. Harwood over twenty years ago in reaction to the cynicism and distrust that permeates much of politics and public life, The Harwood Institute (harwoodonline.org) is today a leading change organization, recognized nationally for a unique approach to breaking down barriers and empowering people to make progress in improving their communities. Harwood has worked with thousands of individuals, guiding them to make more intentional choices which will lead to fundamental change and a different way of thinking, living and doing business in this country.

About State of the Re:Union: State of the Re:Union (stateofthereunion.com) is a nationally-aired public radio show, distributed by NPR and PRX, that explores how communities across America are coming together, transcending challenging circumstances and the vital cultural narratives that make them so unique. SOTRU is now in its second full season and saw its 2010 fall season carried on 215 stations and receiving numerous accolades including a National Press Club Award. The show has traveled to cities and towns as iconic as Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and as small as Oakridge, Oregon, and Española, New Mexico, striving to show the real heart of a community and the spirit with which its residents create, maintain and fight for it.