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Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative – Pew Partnership for Civic ChangeSeptember, 1997 through May, 1998The Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative (PCEI) – a project of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change (Charlottesville, Virginia) – aimed to help cities change their civic capacity by identifying and cultivating new leadership and new opportunities for citizens to apply their creative, entrepreneurial energies to addressing their communities' significant opportunities and problems. Rona served as an adviser on project design for the Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative. Visit the Pew Partnership website for more information about this project. More about RKI's work with the Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative The Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative supported clusters of 20 new and emerging leaders in 10 competitively chosen mid-sized U.S. cities. The Pew Partnership invited applications from more than 70 cities with populations between 150,000 and 450,000, and selected these 10:
Each city then selected 20 Civic Entrepreneurs for 1997-98, and 20 more for 1998-99. These 400 Entrepreneurs formed a remarkable, diverse group of people who reflected the changing face of the United States. The Entrepreneurs responded to challenges to learn new ways to lead and to collaborate, and to work toward changing the situation in which, as Pew Partnership Executive Director Suzanne Morse says, "the few have made decisions for the many." The Entrepreneurs in each city identified an issue of importance to the long-term health of the community and then implemented a project that made progress on that issue. The Pew Partnership brought the Entrepreneurs together for two national institutes aimed at enhancing their peer learning, connecting them with national leaders in specific civic change fields, and developing a network of mutual support. The Pew Partnership also provided communication assistance, technical assistance, and advice to Entrepreneur groups. Rona worked with the Pew Partnership to help design the national institutes. At the first institute, which took place in Colorado Springs in November, 1997, Rona led a session on reflective learning during the final morning gathering. Rona also served as an "ambassador" from the Pew Partnership to the Entrepreneur groups in Providence and Greensboro before they arrived in Colorado Springs. 
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