I feel like the flywheel is starting to turn, but not yet turning at peak speed, and want to get it humming so that the culture is humming.
People have invested in the Collaboratory – not just time or expense, but they’ve taken ownership, wanting to participate and wanting to host. In the short term: create a strong and durable leadership network that can help foster a culture of strong engaged citizenship in the US. What are your specific goals for this work in the short term (6 mo – 1 year)? In the long term (5 – 10 years)? and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor actually helped kick off the first meeting of the Collaboratory, at the Gates Foundation offices in July 2011. and the model of the CIC and that led me and my team to design what would become the Civic Collaboratory, a leadership network dedicated to building a movement of strong citizenship in America. This was in some ways a nice dry run for what would become the Civic Collaboratory. We were trying to build a community that would be a constituency for more civic ambition in our city and state. Our goal was to get leaders and innovators from the Seattle/Puget Sound area (in and around western Washington state) together for dinners and discussions once every few months. It was called the Civic Innovators Club (CIC). who initially suggested we conduct more frequent and focused gatherings the rest of the year, so that the leaders and innovators who came to the conference could stay connected.Īround the same time, in Seattle, my friend and colleague Nick Hanauer and I had created something that ended up being a bit of a prototype for the Collaboratory. I had a desire to build a structure for that sustained engagement. I had for years been organizing an annual national conference – now Citizen University – and the larger the community became, the more appetite there was to sustain the engagement beyond once a year. What was the inspiration behind the Civic Collaboratory? Did you have models or mentors in its formation? What follows is a brief excerpt from this interview. Lynn Barendsen had the opportunity to talk with the civic entrepreneur recently, who shared some of his thoughts about collaboration.
Interview with Eric Liu, Founder of Citizen University and the Civic CollaboratoryĮric Liu is a former speechwriter for President Clinton and the Founder of Citizen University and the Civic Collaboratory.
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