Our Mission

Hope in the Cities promotes honest conversation on race, reconciliation, and responsibility with a goal to create just and inclusive communities through reconciliation among racial, ethnic and religious groups based on personal and institutional change.

A Proven Process for Change

• Honest conversation: Creating models of sustained community dialogue involving all sectors and leading to new and unexpected partnerships
• Acceptance of personal responsibility: moving beyond blame and personal pain to contructive action
• Public acts of acknowledgement and reconciliation: breaking cycles of guilt or anger to reach understanding and healing

''The process for moving past and not getting stuck in the blame game is critical for real growth. The mentality of victimhood or guilt-ridden shame anchors us in inaction. Hope in the Cities provides the arena for unselfish leadership and partnerships for building trust and hope." Former Mayor Walter T. Kenney of Richmond, Virginia