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Why Politics? - The power to make meaningful change
At New Politics Leadership Academy, we dedicate every day to training servant leaders and transforming our politics, but in my personal life, I didn’t always understand the urgent need for political change.
I grew up in an upper middle class suburb in New Jersey, where it felt like everything around us was the same: nice neighborhoods with colonial homes and quarter acre yards. Each day seemed routine: some kind of practice before and after school, dinner at six, homework, and then bedtime. The most injustice I saw was the plight of stray animals. Because of this, I devoted myself to animal welfare.
Our values & servant leadership: Humbition
When it comes to leadership, values matter. In our current political climate, it is vital that elected leaders clarify their values, and live and lead on a daily basis with the courage to stay committed to those values.
Blog: Campaign Academy Recap
This past weekend, we were proud to host our second Campaign Academy in Washington, DC, where we brought together 42 leaders from across the country for a weekend of campaign staff training, the ‘New Politics’ way.
Blog: Service to Politics Conference Recap
This past weekend, we hosted our first annual Service to Politics Conference in Washington, DC. The conference was a great success — over 150 servant leaders joined us and took part in a powerful day and a half of training and community building. Participants came from across the country and the political spectrum, and from a variety of service backgrounds, from the U.S. Military to AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps.
CNN: Take this class if you want to run for office
In the tempestuous weeks leading up to the 2016 election, Dan Moy hunkered down in a seminar room on the Harvard campus with more than a dozen others -- Republicans, Democrats and independents -- to discuss what it might be like to run for office.
Moy had enrolled in a master's program at the university's John F. Kennedy School of Government. But one of the most important parts for him, a weekly course called Answering the Call, wasn't part of the official curriculum.
The conversations in that room were changing lives. And they might just change our politics.