The Aspen Institute's Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) helps our clients plan, assess, and refine their policy advocacy efforts. In particular, we help foundations, individual funders and nonprofit organizations:
The Aspen Institute's Agent Orange in Vietnam Program (AOVP) 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.
Ascend, the Family Economic Security Program, is a hub for breakthrough ideas and proven strategies that move parents, especially women, and their children beyond poverty toward educational success and economic security.
Aspen Global Health and 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...
The Aspen Institute Arts Program was established to support and invigorate the arts in America, and to return the arts to the center of the Aspen Institute's "Great Conversation." Directed by Damian Woetzel, it brings together leading artists,...
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 College Excellence Program aims to identify and replicate campus-wide practices that significantly improve college student outcomes. Through the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the New College Leadership Project and other...
The Aspen Institute, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, formed nearly a year ago The Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process, an independent, nonpartisan effort to evaluate the Federal government's vetting and clearance...
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. Follow us on Twitter...
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 cultures...
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 Council of Women World Leaders,which has moved to the Wilson Center but maintains ties to the Aspen Institute, is a network of current and former women prime ministers and presidents.
The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) advances workforce training, community college, microenterprise and asset building strategies for lower income Americans.
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,...
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 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 Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century program brings together business, government, and opinion leaders to discuss, analyze, build consensus, and advocate on many of the important problems and opportunities affecting the...
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.
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...
The Roundtable on Community Change distills lessons about how to revitalize distressed neighborhoods, and helps policymakers, funders and practitioners develop effective strategies for promoting vibrant, racially-equitable communities...
