How to Support Us

The support of our donors helped make 2007 a successful year and is critical to sustaining our work. We thank you for contributions and participation and invite you to join us in 2008 at our year-round programs, events, seminars, and symposia.

All donors to the Aspen Institute will receive a subscription to our magazine, The Aspen Idea, advance notice of events, and recognition in the Institute's Annual Report.

Annual Giving

• Society of Fellows
  We invite you to join the Society of Fellows (SOF), a group of Institute supporters that plays a key role in sustaining our mission, expanding our programs, and ensuring our future. The Institute offers customized year-round programming for Fellows, such as symposia, seminars, discussion receptions, lunches, and other special events featuring some of the world's foremost leaders and policy experts.
  
  
• Aspen Wye Fellows
  The Aspen Wye Fellows is a group of Chesapeake Bay area residents who share the Aspen Institute's interest in global dialogue and who play a key role in sustaining the Institute's mission, expanding its programs, and ensuring its future. Through lectures by international diplomats and policy experts, panel discussions with public- and private-sector leaders, and book talks by authors and academics, the Aspen Institute offers Aspen Wye Fellows an opportunity for intimate exchange and meaningful dialogue with some of the most stimulating thinkers of our time.
  
  
• Annual Fund
  The Annual Fund is an unrestricted fund in support of various programs at the Aspen Institute. A gift to the Annual Fund supports the Aspen Institute.
  
  
• Aspen Community Programs
  Donations to Aspen Community Programs make it possible to realize our mission of fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue within the Aspen community and beyond. Donors receive discounts on public programs, invitations to exclusive members-only programming, early notification and registration for events, and a subscription to the Institute magazine, The Aspen Idea.

Support our Policy Work

Leadership Network. The Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) is a worldwide community of entrepreneurial business, government and civil society leaders committed to values-based leadership. Through its programs, the AGLN is spurring these leaders --"Fellows" -- to move "from success to significance" and "from thought to action" by tackling the foremost societal challenges of our times. Collectively, the 600 Fellows from 30 countries that currently comprise the AGLN have the potential to make a measurable impact on some of the world's most intractable issues.

Seminars. Aspen Institute seminars create a respite from the pace of daily life and an opportunity to become, as Institute founder Walter Paepcke aptly put it, "more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence, more self-fulfilling" through deliberation with peers on timeless ideas and values.

Scholarships. Dialogue is greatly enhanced by having diverse perspectives at the table, and the Institute's scholarship programs are a key mechanism for making this possible. More.

Policy Programs and Partnerships. Aspen Institute policy programs advance public and private sector knowledge on significant policy issues confronting contemporary society. Policy programs frame critical topics and convene leaders and experts from relevant fields to reach constructive solutions. While each is unique in substance and approach, Aspen Institute policy programs all share a common mission and methodology. Each serves as an impartial forum for proven leaders in a given field, bringing a diversity of perspectives together in pursuit of informed dialogue and effective action.

Planned Giving

The Heritage Society recognizes donors who make gifts in a way that is most advantageous tax-wise to the donor and their families while furthering the mission of the Institute. Some examples are gifts of cash, securities, property, life insurance policies, charitable remainder trust and unitrust, estate gifts, will provisions and testamentary charitable remainder trust. For further information on planned giving opportunities, please contact Susan S. Sherwin, Vice President of Development, at 1-800-410-3463 or at susan.sherwin@aspeninstitute.org.