Metropolitan Richmond Day

This annual event convenes leaders from the public and private sectors of the Richmond region to discuss key issues, and to encourage partnership across differences of race, class and jurisdiction. Since 1996 Hope in the Cities has brought stimulating and provocative speakers to Richmond to explore historic perspectives, current realities, and future hopes for regional cooperation in the Richmond metropolitan area.

The Trust Factor

This series of training activities and conferences are designed to share stories of trustbuilding and hope and to equip people to move forward as trustbuilders. These regular interactive forums engage individuals and organizations who believe that building trust through radical change in the lives of people and their relationships is America's most urgent need.

In 2011 The Trust Factor convened a series of events in Washington, DC to explore the need for trust in politics, race, economics, and religion. Read the Report

In 2009, Initiatives of Change convened The Trust Factor as a national forum at the University of Richmond. Read the Report

In 2007, with leaders of the Dayton Dialogue on Race Relations, Initiatives of Change hosted Building Trust in America at the University of Dayton. Read the Report