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The GoodWork® Project is a large scale, multi-site effort to identify individuals and institutions that exemplify good work—work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and meaningful to its practitioners—and to determine how best to increase the incidence of good work in our society.

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Psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, and Howard Gardner spend the year together at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. Over the course of the year, they develop rough plans for a collaborative project, which they entitle The Humane Creativity Project. A wide ranging search for funding results in an initial grant from the Hewlett Foundation...