The Aspen Institute Advocacy and Exchange Program on Agent Orange/Dioxin is a multi-year project to help Americans and Vietnamese address the continuing health and environmental impact of herbicides sprayed in Vietnam during the war.
The Aspen Institute's Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP), formerly the Global Interdependence Initiative, helps our clients plan, assess, and refine their policy advocacy efforts. In particular, we help foundations, individual...
ANDE is a member-driven organization housed within the Aspen Institute. Our members are leading intermediaries (firms providing capital and/or business development services), funders, and experts who share a common desire to create a movement to...
The Aspen Strategy Group's mission is to provide a bipartisan forum to explore the preeminent foreign policy puzzles facing the United States. Its cross-disciplinary and high-level examination of policy strategies for addressing preeminent and...
The Business and Society Program is dedicated to developing leaders for a sustainable global society. Through dialogues and path-breaking research, we create opportunities for executives and educators to explore new pathways to sustainability and...
The Commission on No Child Left Behind is a bipartisan effort to identify and build support for improvements in federal education policy to ensure the Nation has effective tools to spur academic achievement and close the achievement gap....
The overall goal of the Communications and Society Program is to promote integrated, thoughtful, values-based decision making in the fields of communications, media, and information policy.
The Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group (CSG) energizes and prepares people, organizations and collaboratives to do the best for their communities and regions.
CSG seeks to advance community and economic development, just and civic...
The Aspen Institute Congressional Program, established in 1983 by former U.S. Senator Dick Clark, is a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for members of the United States Congress. The program is funded solely by foundations.
The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) helps the people who help the poor escape poverty. The program provides practical tools, training and information to organizations that help low-income individuals start a business, find a...
The Aspen Education and Society program organizes learning networks and policy workshops that help local, state and national education leaders share knowledge about how school systems can improve the education and life chances of poor and...
The Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program provides nonpartisan leadership and a neutral forum for improving energy and environmental policy making through intentional, values-based dialogue. Through its policy work,...
Global Health & Development (GHD) helps to build innovative strategies for global health and poverty alleviation. GHD supports leadership low and middle income countries and promotes creative solutions to address global health and...
The Aspen Institute Global Initiative on Culture and Society seeks to build a neutral platform for reflection, network building, policy formulation, leadership development, and resource mobilization in the fields of arts, culture, and...
The Aspen Institute Harman-Eisner Program in the Arts was established to support and invigorate the arts in America and to return the arts and artists to the center of the Aspen Institute's "Great Conversation". It brings artists and...
The Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative is the Aspen Institute policy program charged with exploring critical issues in medical science and health policy and how they may affect our individual health and that of our families,...
The Homeland Security Program works to heighten public awareness as to the nation's continued vulnerability to terrorism, and to persuade the nation to take the necessary steps to close the gap between how secure we should be and how secure we...
The Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security (Aspen IFS) is a leading policy program dedicated to helping bring about the policies and financial products that enable all Americans to save, invest, and own.
For 30 years, the Justice & Society Program has worked to promote an understanding of, and adherence to, international human rights. During that time, we have led seminars to educate federal judges on human rights and humanitarian law.
The goal of the Market Building Initiative is to develop a pragmatic yet conceptually grounded basis of ideas for building markets and sustainable economic opportunity in fragile states.
Focused on a comprehensive approach towards the Middle East, the Middle East Programs include the US-Palestinian Public-Private Partnership, and the US-Lebanon Dialogue.
Through leadership development initiatives, convenings, and communications, the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation seeks to inform and maximize the impact of social sector leaders, so that each can contribute to the...
Begun in 1981, the Program on the World Economy has the ongoing goal of promoting sustainable economic growth and financial stability in the world economy. The Program convenes each summer a group of prominent leaders with the aim of advancing...
Realizing Rights aims to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance and policy making and to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage.
The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change focuses on the problems of distressed communities and seeks solutions to individual, family, and neighborhood poverty. For more information, see: ...
