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The Challenge: Lack of trust undermines the best efforts to work for justice and inclusion in our diverse communities. Race, ethnicity, politics and class polarize and isolate us. Unhealed memories of historical wrongs fuel fear and resentment.

The crisis of confidence in every sector of our national life poses critical questions: What builds trust? Can we trust again when trust has been broken?

The Trust Factor: Radical change in the lives of people and their relationships is America's most urgent need. Initiatives of Change works to inspire, equip, and engage citizens with the qualities of integrity and courageous leadership needed to establish collaborative communities. This distinctive approach enables people of different faiths and cultures to accept shared responsibility for change.

Learn about Initiatives of Change – its ideas, its history, its programs, and how you can engage and take action with this global network.

NEWSROOM ARCHIVE>>
Creative Connections at the Parliament of the World's Religions

Paul Wee, Adjunct Professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, in Washington, DC, and Kay Lindahl, founder of the Listening Center in Long Beach, CA, participated in the "Parliament of the World's Religions."
Thursday, February 11, 2010
New book on trustbuilding draws on the Richmond experience

"Hope in the Cities has provided a map for the future," says former Virginia governor Tim Kaine in his foreword to Trustbuilding: an honest conversation on race, reconciliation, and responsibility, by Rob Corcoran, which is published this month by University of Virginia Press.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Youth Find Common Vision at Copenhagen

"Beneath the surface of a failed conference, there has emerged a common vision amongst youth, which inspires me to continue doing this work," writes Marcia Lee, a 2009 Caux Scholar from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who attended the conference on climate change.
Monday, January 11, 2010

 

EDITORIAL ARCHIVE>>
Straight Talk From a Friend Led to Honest Reflection

“You talk a lot about Gandhi’s message, ‘be the change you want to see in the world’, but what are you actually doing about it? How is that actually affecting your life?”
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Chris Breitenberg
Needed: A Revolution of Unselfishness

National political leaders underestimate Americans’ capacity for unselfish choices. The current pandering to the baser instincts of fear and resentment over issues like health care or climate change does an injustice to the generosity and good sense of this country.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Rob Corcoran