Founded in 1993 in Richmond, VA, Hope in the Cities has birthed a conceptual movement through honesty, empathy, intentional conversation, responsibility and truth-telling that is transforming how Richmond as a city and the United States as a country challenges white privilege, structural racism and embedded histories of inequality. Hope in the Cities creates communities in practice where deep listening, accountability and just histories transcend competing identities and interests.
Over two decades of evidence-based work, HIC has built trusted collaborative relationships with a wide range of leaders including community-based activists and organizations, educational institutions, business and corporations, media journalists, nonprofits, civic groups, elected officials, expert practitioners and faith-based centers. Hope in the Cities is able to convene these varied partners who often work in silos, opposition and alienation or neglect of one another. HIC methodologies including workshops, capacity building interventions, facilitated dialogues, and experiential learnings have created innovative change processes across the U.S. including in Portland, Oregon; Selma, Alabama; Baltimore, Maryland; Hartford, Connecticut; Natchez, Mississippi; and Dayton, Ohio; and internationally in the U.K., Switzerland, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Brazil and India.
