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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>>
Gandhi Voyage of Dialogue and Discovery in Washington

The Voyage of Dialogue and Discovery rolled into Washington, DC, June 7, on the heels of a number of public events in support of Trustbuilding, a recent book release from IofC National Director, Rob Corcoran. The themes of the book and the tour dovetailed well as Rajmohan and Usha Gandhi spoke throughout the week about building trust through honest conversation, personal conviction and trustworthiness.
Friday, June 18, 2010
From Tragedy to Triumph: Tulsa's Road to Reconciliation

Nearly ninety years after what has been described as the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history, Tulsa, OK, is starting to come to terms with its painful racial past and to “turn tragedy into a triumph of reconciliation.”

 
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Trustbuilding in Toronto and Washington

“I believe in Canada’s great role as a trustbuilder in a world that must deal with diversity as never before,” said Rob Corcoran, national director of Initiatives of Change USA, in his keynote address to the Annual General Meeting of Initiatives of Change Canada in Toronto.
Monday, June 7, 2010

 

EDITORIAL ARCHIVE>>
Race & Reconciliation: Tulsa, Oklahoma, Leads By Example

“One might argue the historian is the conscience of the nation, if honesty and consistency are factors that nurture the conscience.” Dr. John Hope Franklin (Race and History, Selected Essays, 1938 – 1988)

In life, Tulsa’s hometown hero, Dr. John Hope Franklin, challenged us to identify that which is broken in the world, and then set about fixing it.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Hannibal Johnson
The Open Wounds of the Culture Wars

The US is groaning with the pain of the “culture wars”—the battles of politics and religion that have raged between liberal and conservative, Christian and secular, "red" and "blue" since at least the 1960s, if not the 1860s. Both sides have suffered and felt oppressed by the other, and both have in their turn oppressed and caused suffering.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Zeke Reich