Welcome to our inaugural monthly update, meant to keep you informed about what's happening at the Institute, from DC to Aspen, and New York to Wye River. This e-newsletter will provide you with a quick glance at upcoming programs that offer the kind of open-minded dialogue that is the hallmark of the Institute, as well as recent reports and links to video and audio from past events.

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Coming Soon:

The Aspen Environment Forum: Produced in partnership with National Geographic magazine, the Forum is a powerful gathering examining the future of our shared environment. There is still time to register at www.aspenenvironment.org! Aspen, CO – March 26–30, 2008

Aspen Book Series in NYC: Featuring Tom Brokaw, author of Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ‘60s and Today (Random House). Contact: Neela Pal, neela.pal@aspeninstitute.org. New York City – April 1, 2008

Conversations on Presidential Leadership: "The President and the Constitution," featuring former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and moderator Linda Greenhouse, New York Times Supreme Court correspondent. By invitation only. Contact: Miyuki Arikawa, miyuki.arikawa@aspeninstitute.org. New York City – April 7, 2008

Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series: With Cokie Roberts, author of Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation (William Morrow). Contact: Stacey Loomis, stacey.loomis@aspeninstitute.org. Washington, DC – April 15, 2008

John P. McNulty Prize Guidelines Announced; Deadline for Applications is April 15. The John P. McNulty Prize for extraordinary young leaders making creative, effective and lasting contributions to their communities will award $100,000 to an Aspen Global Leadership Fellow for his or her leadership project in November 2008. Visit www.mcnultyprize.org for information about John McNulty's legacy of leadership and the online application and guidelines.

Conversations on Presidential Leadership: "What Makes a Successful President?" featuring moderator Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News, Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, former presidential advisor David Gergen, and others. By invitation only. Contact: Miyuki Arikawa, miyuki.arikawa@aspeninstitute.org. New York City – May 19, 2008

Aspen Seminar: The Institute's signature seminar (formerly the "Executive Seminar") brings a diverse group of accomplished participants together to engage in a Socratic exploration of classic and contemporary texts about leadership, values, and the good society. Applications open to the public. Contact: Todd Breyfogle, todd.breyfogle@aspeninstitute.org. Website: www.aspeninstitute.org/aspenseminar. Aspen, CO – May 31–June 5, 2008; Wye, MD – June 21–26, 2008.

The Aspen Ideas Festival: Speakers for the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival, which is produced in partnership with The Atlantic, are now featured online at www.aifestival.org. Festival passes are sold out, but single event tickets will go on sale in late June 2008. Aspen, CO – June 30–July 6, 2008

His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Aspen: A Celebration of Tibetan Culture: The Aspen Institute's 15th Annual Summer Celebration Dinner is now sold out. For details and to be added to a waiting list for the dinner, please contact Becky Ward at becky.ward@aspeninstitute.org or (970) 544-7925.

"His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Aspen: A Celebration of Tibetan Culture" symposium is now sold out. To be added to a waiting list for this event, please send an e-mail to katie.donnelly@aspeninstitute.org with your name, phone number, and e-mail address. We will contact you by phone and e-mail if space becomes available.

Tickets for the July 26th Talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Benedict Music Tent will go on sale in early May. If you would like your name added to an email list to receive notification announcing sale date and price, please send an email to katie.donnelly@aspeninstitute.org.

The Aspen Institute and co-chairs Margot Pritzker and Richard Blum, in collaboration with the Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture, are proud to present a substantive symposium that embraces Tibetan and Himalayan art, culture, science, medicine, spiritual practice, and history from July 24 to 26 in Aspen, CO. For more information and to register, visit www.aspeninstitute.org/tibet. Aspen, CO – July 24–26, 2008

Hot Off the Presses:

A Framework for a National Broadband Policy: Condensing discussions from the 2008 Conference on Communications Policy and Aspen Institute Roundtable on Spectrum Policy (AIRS) into a single report, Professor Philip Weiser of the University of Colorado at Boulder offers a series of specific and concrete policy recommendations for expanding access, affordability, and adoption of broadband in the US.

The State of Black America 2008: In the Black Woman’s Voice (PDF): This National Urban League publication features an essay on Putting Homeownership Back Within Our Reach penned by Lisa Mensah, executive director of the Institute’s Initiative on Financial Security.

Advancing Entrepreneurship Education: A Conference Report (PDF): An outcome of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group’s inaugural meeting in September 2007, this report pulls together ideas and strategies from the national leaders on how to bring the promise of entrepreneurship education to greater numbers of students, especially from low-income communities.