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Civic Engagement on the Move
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Civic Engagement on the Move looks at how leading edge practitioners are using mobile media to engage citizens to solve problems, bridge differences and strengthen community. The report details the hallmarks of successful mobile campaigns around civic engagement and provides case studies of several successful and emerging initiatives, including those above that came out of the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.

Media and Values: Issues of Content, Community and Intellectual Property
(a Communications & Society and Energy & Environ. program publication)
Media and Values: Issues of Content, Community and Intellectual Property is a report of the 2007 Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS). It suggests how changing media affect the ability of communities to govern themselves, and people’s concepts of property for non-physical goods. It includes a set of principles for copyright “fair use” and contains a number of other policy recommendations. FOCAS 2008 "Media and Democracy" will explore how new media environments will serve citizens in a democracy. We invite you to attend to observe and interact with participants from two consecutive roundtables: "Media & Elections" and "Media & Engagement." Visit www.aspeninstitute.org/focas for fees and registration information.

Living Cities and Civic Capacity: Leadership, Leverage, and Legitimacy
a Roundtable on Community Change publication)
The report includes recommendations for how foundations, intermediaries, local governments, and a variety of neighborhood-based organizations can help build civic capacity.

Where Will They Lead? 2008
(a Business & Society Program publication)
Where Will They Lead? 2008 summarizes the results of the Business and Society Program's third survey of MBA students on their attitudes toward the role of business in society. It presents highlights of the survey’s findings, including students' attitudes toward the role of companies in society, their definitions of a well-run company, their expectations about values conflicts in the workplace, and the extent to which these ideas influence their personal choices. It spotlights some disparities in the ways in which male and female respondents view these issues, and raises questions for business schools and corporations alike to consider in responding to these findings.

Structural Racism and Community Building
a Roundtable on Community Change publication)
This publication describes the problem of structural racism in the United States and highlights its implications for community building.

Structural Racism and Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Implications
a Roundtable on Community Change publication)
This publication describes the problem of structural racism, particularly as it relates to youth, and highlights implications for youth development work.

Building Knowledge About Community Change: Moving Beyond Evaluation
a Roundtable on Community Change publication)
This publication describes and critiques evaluation strategies for comprehensive community initiatives, and advocates a more complex and collective knowledge development strategy.

Theory of Change as a Tool for Strategic Planning: A Report on Early Experiences
a Roundtable on Community Change publication)
This publication introduces a "theory of change methodology" for planning community based initiatives, and includes a case study of the methodology in application.

The Community Builder's Approach to Theory of Change: A Practical Guide to Theory Development
a Roundtable on Community Change publication)
This publication explains how to develop a community building theory of change, which draws the links between early and intermediate steps and long range results.

Where Will They Lead? 2008 Executive Summary
(a Business & Society Program publication)
Where Will They Lead? 2008 summarizes the results of the Business and Society Program's third survey of MBA students on their attitudes toward the role of business in society. It presents highlights of the survey’s findings, including students' attitudes toward the role of companies in society, their definitions of a well-run company, their expectations about values conflicts in the workplace, and the extent to which these ideas influence their personal choices. It spotlights some disparities in the ways in which male and female respondents view these issues, and raises questions for business schools and corporations alike to consider in responding to these findings.

A Framework for a National Broadband Policy
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Condensing discussions from the 2008 Conference on Communications Policy and Aspen Institute Roundtable on Spectrum Policy (AIRS) into a single report.

Women World Leaders
(a Council of Women World Leaders publication)
In an unprecedented journey which took her into corridors of power around the world, Laura Liswood conducted one-on-one interviews with fifteen women presidents and prime ministers.

The Rise Of Collective Intelligence: Decentralized Co-Creation of Value as a New Paradigm of Commerce and Culture
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Describes how collective intelligence affects business value creation and passion-based collaborative learning resulting in new user generated business and media models. The Report includes an account of "The Cloud” or utility computing.

Toward a Global Gas Market
(an Energy and Environ. program publication)
The 2007 Forum, “Toward a Global Gas Market,” considered how increasing trade in liquefied natural gas is changing regional gas markets into global markets. Chaired by former Secretary of Energy and Defense James R. Schlesinger, the diverse group also explored projections of gas demand, the global resource base, the impacts of technological advances on future production, and the geopolitical and national political issues that can affect supply.

Energy: Old Challenges, New Opportunities
(an Energy and Environ. program publication)
The 2007 Forum, "Energy: Old Challenges, New Opportunities," focused on energy decisions facing the United States, including vulnerabilities caused by increasing oil and gas imports, how to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, and the move toward greater competition in electricity markets. Under the chairmanship of Walter M. Higgins, CEO of Sierra Pacific Resources, and William W. Hogan, Professor of Public Policy & Administration at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the group also explored solutions including demand reduction, nuclear power, renewable fuels, carbon capture and storage, and improved auto fuel efficiency.

Minds on Fire: Enhancing India's Knowledge Workforce
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
In February 2007, the Aspen India/ C&S Joint Roundtable on Communications Policy convened business executives, academics and leading thinkers from the United States and India to discuss ways to increase the educated workforce to keep up with India's economic boom. The report Minds on Fire: Enhancing India?s Knowledge Workforce authored by Richard Adler deftly includes a description of promoting Learning 2.0 in India or open source learning made possible by the web. The report contains a proposal for Knowledge Learning Centers within Special Economic Zones in India.

Media, Creativity and the Public Good
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Changing media technology and fresh concerns from citizens have brought new attention to a long-standing question: is it possible for media to serve the public good while also preserving artistic creativity and freedom? This report will examine both the problems facing today’s media, from indecency and violence to under-representation of marginalized groups, and potential solutions as discussed by the participants of the Roundtable on Leadership and the Media, which was convened last March in Santa Barbara in association with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. 2007.

Towards a Sensible System for Saving
(an Initiative on Financial Security publication)
Today, American savers are confronted with a dazzling array of savings choices?how to save, what savings plans fit their goals, and what types of savings and investment products suit them. Yet despite the proliferation of savings vehicles, the US personal savings rate became negative in 2005. This paper charts the development of savings plans and describes current plans and their usage. It concludes that a new agenda will be required to build the next generation of savings plans. Step one in that process means striving for simplification. Step two means building better plans. Step three means recognizing that what really matters the most for saving in the long run are outcomes. Traditionally, savings plan design has focused almost entirely on the first stage of saving: contributions and their tax incentives. But contributions alone do not make savings plans effective. A more sensible system for saving would set specific savings objectives and design plans capable of achieving them.

Seen but Not Heard: Strengthening Nonprofit Advocacy
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
Seen but Not Heard: Strengthening Nonprofit Advocacy provides new research findings about the extent of nonprofit advocacy while also detailing the barriers and incentives for nonprofits seeking to engage in various types of policy activities, including lobbying. The book, written by Gary D. Bass, David F. Arons, Kay Guinane, and Matthew F. Carter, with assistance from Susan Rees, is the culmination of survey research, focus groups and interviews with nonprofit executives and board members around nonprofit policy engagement. It is a comprehensive analysis of advocacy ? which includes lobbying ? by charities and provides recommendations for strengthening nonprofit policy participation.

Savings for Life: The Pathway to Financial Security for All Americans
(an Initiative on Financial Security publication)

China's March on the 21st Century
(an Aspen Strategy Group publication)
The publication features an executive summary of the Aspen Strategy Group 2005 workshop participants' recommendations and contains commissioned papers from Middle East and terrorism experts, such as President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass, former Director of the CIA R. James Woolsey, Daniel Benjamin, author of The Age of Sacred Terror, and several others. These papers cover various aspects of the jihadist threat, including the use of new technologies ? such as the Internet ? as weapons and recruitment tools for terrorists; a potential Sunni/Shia break in the Middle East as a result of the war in Iraq; the spread of Islamist fundamentalism around the world; and the political and military strategies available to the United States and its allies in this ongoing struggle.

Next-Generation Media: The Global Shift
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Next-Generation Media: The Global Shift examines the growth of the Internet and its effect on a rapidly changing topic: the impact of new media on politics, business, society, culture, and governments the world over. The report also sheds light on how traditional media will need to adapt to face the competition of the next generation media.

The final report from the Commission on No Child Left Behind (a Commission on No Child Left Behind publication)
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the Promise to Our Nation's Children

The Mobile Generation: Global Transformations at the Cellular Level
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
The 2006 Roundtable examined the profound changes ahead as a result of the convergence of wireless technologies and the Internet. The Roundtable addressed the technological and behavioral changes already taking place in the United States and other parts of the world as a result of widespread and innovative uses of wireless devices, the trends in these behaviors especially with the younger generation, and what this could mean for life values in the coming decade. The Roundtable tackled new economic and business models for communications entities, social and political ramifications, and the implications for leaders in all parts of the world. The 2006 Roundtable included 28 distinguished leaders from the fields of government, business, finance, academia and media. The 2006 convening committee, comprised of John Seely Brown, Bill Coleman of Cassatt, James Manyika of McKinsey, Shona Brown of Google, Aedhmar Hynes of Text100 and roundtable co-founder Jerry Murdock.

Community Change: Theories, Practice, and Evidence
a Roundtable on Community Change publication)

The Future of Video: New Approaches to Communications Regulation
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Philip J. Weiser, rapporteur. As the converged worlds of telecommunications and information are changing the way most Americans receive and relate to video entertainment and information, the regulatory regimes governing their delivery have not changed in tune with the times. These changes raise several crucial questions: Is there a comprehensive way to consider the next generation of video delivery? What needs to change to bring about a regulatory regime appropriate to the new world of video? The report of the 21st Annual Conference on Communications Policy in Aspen, Colorado, outlines a series of important issues related to the emergence of a new video marketplace based on the promise of Internet technology and offers recommendations for guiding it into the years ahead.

Next Generation Inter-organizational Emergency Communications
(a Homeland Security Initiative publication)
Thanks to a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, the Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Initiative convened a series of meetings last year among leaders in government, industry, the first responder community, and the non-profit sector to recommend a solution to the problem of the lack of interoperable communications among police, fire fighters, and emergency medical personnel in crises. People died on 9/11 and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina who might otherwise have been saved had "first responders" been able to communicate with each other. People will continue to die in future natural disasters and terror attacks unless and until this problem is finally solved. In the attached report, the task force proposes an 18 month pojrect to achieve three short-term goals that will move the nation closer to the day when first responders can communicate with one another fully, quickly, and easily.

Unmassing America: Ethnic Media and the New Advertising Marketplace
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
The Aspen Institute Forum on Diversity and the Media met at the Aspen Wye River Conference Center in May 2005 to explore the changing nature of advertising and the impact that these changes would have on thecontinued growth and development of enthic media in the United States.

Energy Markets & Global Politics
(an Energy and Environ. program publication)
Growing energy demand, competition for scarce oil and gas supplies, instability in some producing regions, and the use of energy as a political weapon were the focus of the Program on Energy and Environment?s second annual Global Forum on Energy, Economy and Security. A group of energy industry leaders and policy experts concluded that complacency and business-as-usual policies could lead to even higher prices and less secure markets.

Framing the Other: Bias or Imbalance?
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Bias or Imbalance: Essays and commentary by Arab and U.S. journalists about bias in the media and recommendations towards better, more balanced coverage.

Energy: The New Normal?
(an Energy and Environ.program publication)
High energy prices, coupled with intensified fighting in the Middle East and broader acceptance of the need to act on global climate change, have suggested to many in the past year that the world of energy has changed.

A High Growth Strategy for Ethanol
(an Energy and Environ.program publication)
A distinguished group of business, government, environmental and academic leaders developed a series of recommendations to stimulate the widespread commercialization of both corn and cellulosic ethanol as a replacement for gasoline.

First Informers in the Disaster Zone: The Lessons of Katrina
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Hurricane Katrina taught some hard lessons that a year later still reverberate through government, media and society. In the wake of America?s worst modern disaster, a steady flow of news stories, articles, books, government reports, and public forums have built a literature that provides guidance to vital institutions in coping with future calamities. The goal of this report is to add to that knowledge by exploring how the disaster transformed the gathering and dissemination of crisis information. This topic was confronted by participants in a conference hosted by the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program on May 17-19, 2006, in Queenstown, Maryland.

Clearing the Air: Convergence and the Safety Enterprise
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Outlines the problems now plaguing the safety enterprise and offers recommendations for integrating a communications network among its members.

Connect and Catalyze: Can India Leverage ICT for Inclusive and Sustained Growth?
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Connect and Catalyze succinctly describes many of India's economic challenges and opportunities and includes suggested implementations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a means to sustained economic development.

Mapping the Jihadist Threat
(an Aspen Strategy Group publication)
The publication features an executive summary of the Aspen Strategy Group 2005 workshop participants' recommendations and contains commissioned papers from Middle East and terrorism experts, such as President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass, former Director of the CIA R. James Woolsey, author of The Age of Sacred Terror, Daniel Benjamin, and several others. These papers cover various aspects of the jihadist threat, including the use of new technologies ? such as the Internet ? as weapons and recruitment tools for terrorists; a potential Sunni/Shia break in the Middle East as a result of the war in Iraq; the spread of Islamist fundamentalism around the world; and the political and military strategies available to the United States and its allies in this ongoing struggle.

Copy of Mapping the Jihadist Threat
(an Aspen Strategy Group publication)
The publication features an executive summary of the Aspen Strategy Group 2005 workshop participants' recommendations and contains commissioned papers from Middle East and terrorism experts, such as President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass, former Director of the CIA R. James Woolsey, author of The Age of Sacred Terror, Daniel Benjamin, and several others. These papers cover various aspects of the jihadist threat, including the use of new technologies ? such as the Internet ? as weapons and recruitment tools for terrorists; a potential Sunni/Shia break in the Middle East as a result of the war in Iraq; the spread of Islamist fundamentalism around the world; and the political and military strategies available to the United States and its allies in this ongoing struggle.

Transforming High School Teaching and Learning: A District-wide Design
(an Education & Society Program publication)
Provides new insights on how to substantially improve high school teaching and learning across an urban school district. Drawing on the expertise of teachers, principals, superintendents, policy makers and researchers, the new Aspen Institute Program on Education and Society report offers both an analytic framework and concrete suggestions for a new approach to high school improvement.

Slow Fuse
(a Communications & Society and Energy & Environ. program publication)
Written by Larry Pryor, the report suggests 10 steps that newsroom leaders should consider to help their organizations develop a franchise around innovative and compelling reporting on climate change and similarly complex, long-term issues.

Savings in America: Building Opportunities for All
(an Initiative on Financial Security publication)
This white paper, a collaborative effort with the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs and The Urban Institute, explores barriers to savings and fresh policy approaches to help lower- to middle-income Americans save.

Soft Power, Hard Issues
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Shanthi Kalathil, rapporteur. In these two reports, the author explores the growing importance of soft power by looking at two crucial areas of international tension, the U.S. role in the Middle East and Sino-American relations. The role of information and communications technologies in American public diplomacy in the Middle East and American?s relations with China is a central theme in the reports.

Strong Foundation, Evolving Challenges
(an Education & Society Program publication)
A Case Study to Support Leadership Transition in the Boston Public Schools.

Policy Issues for Telecommunications Reform
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Robert Entman, rapporteur. In these two reports, the author considers the changes that are necessary and appropriate to the Communications Act in view of technological convergence in the digital and network sectors, the changing economic and business circumstances of telecommunications users and providers, and the preservation of ongoing social policy. The reports also touch on how spectrum policies can address problems in rural telecommunications and broadcast services, and offer policy options for consideration in both the legislative and regulatory arenas.

When Push Comes to Pull: The New Economy and Culture of Networking Technology
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
David Bollier, rapporteur. The author considers how communications, economics, business, cultural and social institutions are changing from mass production to an individualized ?pull? model. When Push Comes to Pull describes the co-existence of both push (top down or hierarchical) and pull (bottom up or networked) models?how they interact, evolve, and overlay each other in the networked information economy. The report explores the application of ?pull? to the worlds of business and economics, the content and intellectual property industries, the emergence of an economy of the commons, and personal and social dynamics including leadership in a pull world. It also touches on the application of the pull model to learning systems, the military in the form of network centric warfare, and the provision of government services.

The New Energy Security
(an Energy and Environ. program publication)
The Program on Energy, the Environment, and the Economy has released The New Energy Security, the report of its first annual Global Oil and Gas Forum held in Aspen October 14-17, 2005. Co-chaired by James R. Schlesinger, former US Secretary of Defense and Energy, and Luis Giusti, Senior Advisor at CSIS and former CEO of Petroléos de Venezuela, experts discussed recent increases in oil and gas prices, global competition for reserves, debates about whether oil production will peak soon, growth in demand in China and India, prospects for increased production in Saudi Arabia and Russia, US reliance on LNG imports to meet gas demand growth, and the links between globalized energy markets and perceptions of national security.

Electricity: Who Will Build New Capacity?
(an Energy and Environ.program publication)
The 2005 Forum, chaired by Cinergy Corp. Chairman and CEO James E. Rogers, considered who will build needed new power generation and transmission facilities in light of a hybrid regulatory structure, industry reorganization, financing uncertainties, and concerns about fuel availability and regulation of carbon emissions. The Forum report, Electricity: Who Will Build New Capacity?, is organized around recommendations on market design, energy efficiency, innovation and technology choice, carbon management, and infrastructure security.

Artistic Freedom and Social Responsibility
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Artistic Freedom and Social Responsibility, written by Kathryn Harris, provides insight into the inner thoughts and attitudes of media players ? creators, distributors and consumers ? concerning what is appropriate to bring to market and what is not. To what extent should media executives consider the potential impact of the programming over the perceived wants and desires of the audience? Where in the calculus of financing, producing and distributing content does one consider social responsibility?

A Silent Tsunami: The Urgent Need for Clean Water and Sanitation
A Silent Tsunami: The Urgent Need for Clean Water and Sanitation notes that ?for lack of clean water and sanitation, as many poor people are dying each month as perished during the Southeast Asian tsunami.? Based on a 2005 dialogue sponsored by the Aspen Institute?s Program on Energy, the Environment, and the Economy and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, this report provides a series of recommendations on this challenge for governments, businesses, and other organizations. Co-chairs William K. Reilly and Harriett C. Babbitt highlight the urgency of the challenge and the array of public and private initiatives to tackle it. A letter from the co-chairs to the organizers of the March, 2006, Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City is also included.

Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems
Can local community-based models of ownership work? As this path-breaking report demonstrates, in cities and towns across the United States, they already do. The past few decades have seen rapid expansion of new forms of local ownership to develop business, create jobs, foster local democratic practices, generate tax bases to support public services, and promote stability and community development. In combination with related wealth-building approaches employed by both foundations and governments, these efforts constitute part of an emerging paradigm of employing assets to address social and economic problems. This book, published by the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, marks the first across-the-board attempt to survey the development of these approaches ? and their strategic interaction ? in a comprehensive fashion.

Opening the Realm: The Role of Communications in Negotiating the Tension of Values in Globalization
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Opening the Realm: The Role of Communications in Negotiating the Tension of Values in Globalization, by Michael Suman, addresses how the communications media and information technologies can be used to ameliorate or exacerbate the tensions among the values of peace, prosperity, and good governance, or among the forces of security, capitalism, and democracy. That is, can the media help a society gain the simultaneous benefit of all three values or forces? How does one prioritize how the media go about doing that in a free society? What is the role of the new media, which has so much promise to involve the individual in new ways?

Information Technology and the New Global Economy: Tensions, Opportunities, and the Role of Public Policy
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
David Bollier, rapporteur. The report provides context and insight into the unfolding of new economic realities arising from the information revolution?how the world?s players will live, learn, innovate, offer, consume, thrive, and die in the new global economic landscape. Information Technology and the New Global Economy draws a portrait of a changing global economy by describing new business models for the networked environment, exploring topics of innovation and specialization.

Reforming Telecommunications Regulation (a Communications & Society Program publication)
Robert M. Entman, rapporteur. Reforming Telecommunications Regulation describes how the telecommunications regulatory regime in the United States will need to change as a result of the technological advances and competition among broadband DSL, cable modems and other players such as wireless broadband providers. Proposing major revisions of the Communications Act and FCC regulations, the report suggets an interim transitional scheme toward ultimate deregulation of basic telecommunications, revising the current method for universal service subsidies, and changing the way regulators look at rural communications.

Deriving Value from Corporate Values
(a Business & Society Program publication)
Deriving Value from Corporate Values identifies the results of a global study to bring greater clarity around how companies define corporate values, to expand on research about the relationship of values to business performance, and to identify best practices for managing corporate values. The report is based on a major study of corporate values, including the results of surveys of senior executives at 365 companies in 30 countries in five regions, almost one-third of whom are CEOs or board members. Deriving Value from Corporate Values is a publication of Booz Allen Hamilton and the Aspen Institute. 2005.

Journalism, Transparency and the Public Interest
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
The report offers firsthand accounts of how a new ethic of transparency-enabled by developing communications technologies and driven by heightened audience expectations for openness and accountability-is taking hold in American journalism. It also examines the continuing fragmentation of media and media audiences and the effect of fragmentation on journalistic quality as products are tailored toward more individualistic and interactive market niches. Finally, the report urges the field of journalism toward as practical a level of transparency as possible. In doing so, the report offers a set of best practices for media to use as a resource in developing strategies that enhance their relationships with readers, viewers and users, and strengthen their newsroom operations and professional performance.

Conserving Biodiversity
Conserving Biodiversity is the report of a Biodiversity Policy Forum held in Aspen in April, 2004. It includes ?Gardening the Earth,? a summary of the group?s conclusions by Forum Co-chairs Bruce Babbitt, former U.S. Secretary of Interior, and José Sarukhán, Professor of Ecology and former President of the National University of Mexico (UNAM). They stress the importance of protecting biodiversity in human-dominated environments in addition to setting aside protected areas. The report also includes nine discussion papers commissioned for the Forum.

Challenging the Theology of Spectrum: Policy Reformation Ahead
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Authored by Robert M. Entman, Challenging the Theology of Spectrum: Policy Reformation Ahead is a report of the inaugural Aspen Institute Roundtable on Spectrum Policy, held in Spring 2004. The report examines the theology of spectrum? that is the assumptions and mythology surrounding its management and use. The author looks at how new technologies affecting spectrum, such as software defined radio, are able to challenge the conventional wisdom of how spectrum should be managed. 2004.

American Media and the Quality of Voter Information
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
In the spring of 2004, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program in collaboration with the Center for Governmental Studies, and the support of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, convened leading journalists, public officials, political activists, critics and academics to discuss the role of the media in providing adequate levels of political information to the American public. The discussion centered on the role of new media in improving the quality of voter information from coverage of local elections to presidential debates. Authored by Robert Entman, American Media and the Quality of Voter Information details the consideration leading to a number of proposals formulated by the conference participants.

Through the Looking Glass: Arab and American Media Leaders Debate, Dialogue and Rededicate
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Through the Looking Glass: Arab and American Media Leaders Debate, Dialogue and Rededicate is a compelling piece about current U.S. and Arab editorial practice and its impact on the headline events regarding terrorism and Iraq. The publication offers commentary, data and reflection on the topics discussed at the Aspen Institute Arab-US Media Forum, a convening of top Arab and American journalists, editors and columnists. The primary pieces were written by WorldPaper founder, Crocker Snow, Jr. and our moderator, Arab journalist Hisham Melham.

U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues with Americans ? A Practical Guide
U.S. in the World is a tool designed to help experts, professional communicators, elected officials, candidates, journalists, advocates and any individual who wants to talk with other Americans about US foreign policy. The guide is based on a two-year, extensive, nonpartisan collaborative process that involved hundreds of experts on U.S. foreign policy, public opinion and communications. Its 140 pages feature communications pointers as well as core arguments and facts framed in ways that research suggests are more likely to engage a large segment of the public. U.S. in the World is a publication of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Global Interdependence Initiative of the Aspen Institute. U.S. in the World is available for order in hard copy or for free download: http://www.usintheworld.org.

A Guide for Student Change Agents
(a Business & Society Program publication)
A Resource for MBA Change Agents by The Aspen Institute and Net Impact. This is a July 2004 report.

In Service of the Truth and the Common Good: The Impact of Media on Global Peace and Conflict
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
In Service of the Truth and the Common Good: The Impact of Media on Global Peace and Conflict is the product of a meeting held in June 2003 among distinguished executives and journalists from American media, prominent religious leaders from the Catholic, Jewish and Islamic faiths, and leading scholars and analysts of international affairs. The author examines the complexities that are inherent in the practice of journalism, particularly as they relate to matters of war and peace. The report examines four topics: the news and the truth, journalism?s unwritten creed, news coverage of conflict, and concerns common to religious and media based organizations. 2004.

Tackling the Critical Conundrum: How Do Business, Government and Media Balance Economic Growth and a Healthy Environment?
Former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and former Undersecretary of State Frank Loy co-chaired a Forum in Aspen on balancing economic growth and a healthy environment. This report includes their conclusions and discussion papers exploring the tradeoffs from the perspectives of business leaders, elected officials , investment firms, journalists, and economists. 2004.

A Matter of Degree: The Role of Journalists as Activists in Journalism Business and Policy
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Explores to what extent should or could journalists be involved in these decisions at the policy levels of government and business.

An American Grand Strategy for the Middle East
(an Aspen Strategy Group publication)
This report reveals the contours and complications of American grand strategy in the Middle East. Commissioned for the August 2003 Aspen Strategy Group workshop in Aspen, Colorado, papers by nine experts examine the most troubling policy challenges of the Middle East ?reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, Arab-Israeli peace, region-wide political and economic reform, and other issues. The report includes a section by ASG Director Kurt Campbell summarizing the main take-aways from the meeting discussion. 2004

People / Networks / Power: Communications Technologies and the New International Politics
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Authored by David Bollier, People / Networks / Power: Communications Technologies and the New International Politics explores the sweeping implications of information technology for national sovereignty, formal and informal diplomacy and international politics. Bollier describes the special challenges and new rules facing governments and non-governmental organizations in projecting their messages globally. The book explores the relationships between the soft power of persuasion and the more traditional hard power of the military, and discusses how governments will have to pay close attention to newly burgeoning social communities in order to prosper. 2004.

A Climate Policy Framework: Balancing Policy and Politics
The Aspen Institute, in association with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, convened a diverse group of leaders to develop a politically feasible framework for a mandatory U.S. climate change policy. The group did not discuss whether mandatory action is now warranted. It did, however, reach consensus on several fundamental elements of a national policy, if one is adopted. 2004.

Capital Plus: The Challenge of Development in Development Finance Institutions
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
"Capital Plus" recognizes that the work of development finance institutions often includes not only intermediation of financial capital but also the intermediation of complex social and civic relationships. Development finance institutions can serve as catalysts for the creation of unique coalitions of public agencies and private institutions to address the constellation of constraints that must be tackled in order to have significant impact on poverty alleviation and long-term economic development. By mobilizing the array of institutional actors needed to address the complexity of issues, development finance institutions play a key role in building and supporting not only financial capital but also social capital - inter-personal and inter-group networks and relationships that are reliable, reciprocal, and trustful - among DFI clients and between clients and the broader economy. 2004.

Spectrum and Network Policy for Next Generation Telecommunications
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
The report of the 18th Annual Aspen Institute Conference on Telecommunications Policy, offers policy alternatives in both spectrum and network policy to achieve new gains for the telecommunications field. The first essay suggests new management approaches to encourage more efficient uses of the spectrum while preserving the commitment to reliability of service and public safety values. The second essay debates the competitive structure of the telecommunications industry and its implications for building Next Generation Networks (NGN) and identifies three areas to encourage optimal development of the NGN: (1) operate the NGN on a price deregulated basis and begin addressing access regulation issues, (2) secure intellectual property rights of content suppliers, and (3) adjust the system of subsidized pricing to bring about competitively neutral pricing. 2004.

Fundusz Mikro: An Experiment In Partnership-Based Microfinance 1998 - 2002
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
An Experiment In Partnership-Based Microfinance explores the manner in which Fundusz Mikro has used product development and relationship building to develop an innovative suport system for Polish entrepreneurs, who are learning to work within a capital markets framework. 2004.

The Informal Economy: Experiences of African Americans
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This publication, written by the Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED) Solutions, explores the experiences of 55 African Americans who either operate their own informal businesses or are employed informally ? working for companies that pay them in cash. The 71-page report looks at the pros and cons of participating in the informal economy and the implications for programs encouraging entrepreneurship.

The Informal Economy: Latino Enterprises at the Margins
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
Based on research involving 38 informal, Latino businesspeople - both documented and undocumented - this 90-page report reflects on their experiences while also tackling such issues as: what are the barriers Latino entrepreneurs face as they operate their small businesses and how might they be helped to move from the informal to the "formal" economy.

Organizing Foundations for Maximum Impact: A Guide to Effective Philanthropy
This book delineates the process by which foundations can be more effective in their philanthropy endeavors and successfully pursue their goals. Written by Denis Prager, president of Strategic Consulting Services and a former funder, it provides valuable information on the organizational and managerial aspects of how to increase the operational effectiveness of foundations. Published by the Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, it's intended for board members, executive management, staff, and students in the nonprofit and philanthropy field. 2003.

Electricity Restructuring, 2003
In 2003 the Forum focused on electricity restructuring. Chaired by former Director of Central Intelligence and Undersecretary of Energy John Deutch, participants discussed the advantages and disadvantages of national rules governing transmission, economic and market power issues affecting ownership, whether the market?s choice of fuel is in the national interest, whether natural gas supplies are adequate, and how restructuring will affect the future of nuclear power, renewables, efficiency, and distributed generation. A series of Electricity Recommendations were sent to Congressional and Administration leaders following the Forum. 2003.

Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook
A highly readable manual on surveying nonprofits. The description of each step in the survey process, with examples and a review of alternative approaches, is particularly useful for practitioners without academic training in survey research. The section on how to ask about sensitive topics is especially helpful. Everyone interested in understanding more about what we know - and don't know - about nonprofits should have a copy as a reference guide. 2003.

Journalism, Security and the Public Interest: Best Practices for Reporting in Unpredictable Times
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
The conference report, "Journalism, Security and the Public Interest: Best Practices for Reporting in Unpredictable Times," written by Adam Clymer, includes best practices for journalists, editors and media executives to consider when reporting on a story with national security implications. The publication also includes prepared remarks made by Attorney General John Ashcroft at the conference. 2003; 64 pages.

Democratic Enterprise: Sustaining Media and Civil Society
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
This report of the Third International Roundtable on Journalism and Freedom of Expression examines international perspectives on civil liberties and press freedom in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Authored by Craig L. LaMay, associate professor and former associate dean of the Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, the report questions certain assumptions made regarding the inevitability of a country?s march toward democracy and press freedom, including an interesting case study on "Democratization and Asian Values". The report considers a more pragmatic approach to journalism, media sustainability, and building civil society. 2003, 51 pages, ISBN #0-89843-381-9.

Grow Faster Together, or Grow Slowly Apart
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This Domestic Strategy Group report outlines alarming trends that are shaping the size and characteristics of America's labor force: labor and skills shortages and stagnant wages. The report recommends that worker training, job security and stability, and immigration policy should be national priorities and proposes concrete initiatives for government and the private sector. 2003.

Coaching: A Strategy for Developing Instructional Capacity-Promises and Practicalities
This paper focuses on coaching as an effective professional development practice to improve teaching and learning.

Health ? Chapter 2 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on voluntary hospitals, nursing homes, and other nonprofit health organizations in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Education and Training ? Chapter 3 of The State of Nonprofit America
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
This is a chapter focusing on private nonprofit K-12 schools, colleges, and universities, as well as nonprofit job training organizations in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Social Services ? Chapter 4 of The State of Nonprofit America
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
This is a chapter focusing on nonprofit social service providers in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Arts and Culture ? Chapter 5 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on nonprofit theaters, symphonies, operas, and museums, in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Housing and Community Development ? Chapter 6 of The State of Nonprofit America
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
This is a chapter focusing on the nonprofit organizations which build and maintain low- and moderate-income housing in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

International Assistance ? Chapter 7 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on the non-governmental organizations engaged in international relief and development in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Religious Congregations ? Chapter 8 of The State of Nonprofit America
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
This is a chapter focusing on the activity of religious congregations in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Civic Participation and Advocacy ? Chapter 9 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on the nonprofit organizations that encourage civic engagement and advocate on behalf of groups of citizens in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Infrastructure Organizations ? Chapter 10 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on a variety of support organizations that offer membership, advocacy, research, and management assistance services to other nonprofit organizations and seek to improve their effectiveness, in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Foundations and Corporate Philanthropy ? Chapter 11 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on foundations, corporate giving programs, charity federations such as the United Way, and donor-advised gift funds in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Individual Giving and Volunteering ? Chapter 12 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on giving and volunteering trends in the United States in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Commercialization, Social Ventures, and For-Profit Competition ? Chapter 13 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on the growing commercial pressures facing nonprofit organizations in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Devolution, Marketization, and the Changing Shape of Government-Nonprofit Relations ? Chapter 14 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on the changing relationship between nonprofit organizations and government in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

Accountability and Public Trust ? Chapter 15 of The State of Nonprofit America
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
This is a chapter focusing on governance, regulation, and accountability of nonprofit organizations in The State of Nonprofit America.

Demographic and Technological Imperatives ? Chapter 16 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on the demographics and technological changes facing American society and what these changes mean for nonprofit organizations in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

For Whom and For What? The Contributions of the Nonprofit Sector ? Chapter 17 of The State of Nonprofit America
This is a chapter focusing on the role nonprofit organizations play in serving disadvantaged populations in The State of Nonprofit America (Lester M. Salamon, editor), published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution Press in collaboration with the Aspen Institute.

United Way of Chicago: Perspectives on Key Planning Issues by Major Constituency Groups
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
This report represents findings from interviews with major constituency groups of United Way of Chicago (UWC) and analysis of the UWC data files on allocations and agency resources. The findings raise a number of key planning issues. 2003.

Rethinking High School: The Next Frontier For State Policymakers
By Patricia W. McNeil, High School Solutions, Estes Park, CO. Was commissioned for the Aspen 2002 High School Transformation Workshop and updated (Jan 03) for the Aspen-Chief State School Officers winter retreat. Provides a useful comparison of four state high school reform efforts. 2003.

Transforming American High Schools: Early Lessons and New Challenges
Prepared by Rob Reich, senior fellow for the Education and Society program, is an overview of the conclusions and recommendations of the three Aspen workshops. The paper serves as a companion to the Overview of Selected Reform Strategies prepared by Husbands and Beese. 2003.

Media Convergence, Diversity, and Democracy
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
This publication, authored by journalist Neil Shister, examines the concern of many over the shrinking electorate in American elections and the possible role the mass media play in that trend, the debate over whether consolidation in old and new media raises ?democratic? as opposed to antitrust concerns, and opportunities for new media to enable citizens to communicate -- both in terms of gaining new information and exchanging their own opinions with others. He also addresses the concern that new media will become bottlenecked rather than continue the open architecture of the Internet, and the apparent choices available to government at this time. 2003, 56 pages, ISBN: 0-89843-374-6.

Biological Security and Public Health: In Search of Global Treatment
(an Aspen Strategy Group publication)
An outgrowth of the August 2002 Aspen Strategy Group meeting in Aspen, Colorado, the report contains eight articles by leading experts on biosecurity and global health, including Margaret Hamburg of NTI, David Heymann of WHO, and Kenneth Shine of RAND. The report provides an update on U.S. vulnerabilities to naturally-occurring and terrorist health threats as well as policy suggestions to mitigate biosecurity risks. Written before the outbreak of the SARS epidemic, the volume foreshadows global deficiencies in countering such a communicable and lethal epidemic. 2003.

The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy: A Report of the Eleventh Institute Roundtable on Information Technology
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
David Bollier, rapporteur. The report begins with a look at how the velocity of information and diversification of information sources are complicating international diplomacy. It further addresses the geopolitical and military implications as well as how the Internet is affecting cross-cultural and political relationships. It also emphasizes the role of storytelling in a world where the Internet and other technologies bring our competing stories into closer proximity with each other, and where stories will be interpreted in different ways by different cultures. 2003, 69 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843368-1.

Where Will They Lead? MBA Student Attitudes about Business & Society 2003
(a Business & Society Program publication)
This research report includes findings from a survey conducted in November 2002 with 1700 first and second year MBA students at 12 leading international graduate schools of business. It is a follow-up to a longitudinal survey of MBA students released in December 2001. Like the earlier survey, the current study probed students' views on the role of the company in society. It also sought to learn how those views may have changed in the midst of a dramatically different political, social and economic landscape.

Balancing Policy Options in a Turbulent Telecommunications Market
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
This report assesses the future of communications regulatory paradigms in light of desirable changes in spectrum policy, telecommunications market environments, and regulatory goals. It suggests four models of regulation, including government allocation, private spectrum rights, unlicensed commons, and a hybrid system of dynamic spectrum access. It also addresses how changes in spectrum and other telecommunications policies, and new business realities, might affect current regulatory regimes for the telecommunications industries. The publication includes an excellent background paper on spectrum policy by Dale Hatfield. 2003, ISBN#: 0-89843-370-3; 79 pages.

For Good Measure: Performance of the U.S. Microenterprise Industry
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This report from FIELD is the first in a regular series of publications that provide and analyze performance data on a large set of U.S. microenterprise programs. It is a product of the MicroTest project to improve microenterprise services by promoting the use of measures to regularly assess performance.

Industry-Based Employment Programs: Implications for Welfare Reauthorization and Key Survey Findings
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This brief highlights some of the key findings from the SEDLP participant survey and describes some of the outcomes that were found specifically among welfare recipients. The authors then discuss the implications for public policy, particularly welfare policy.

Sector Policy Project Report No. 3-Measuring Up and Weighing In: Industry Based Workforce Development Training Results in Strong Employment Outcomes
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This is the third report in a three-part series, the purpose of which is to make both the general concept of sector strategy and the particular outcomes of sector programs accessible to policymakers in easy-to-understand terms. To this end, the authors benchmark SEDLP findings against those from well-respected workforce development demonstration projects, particularly the National Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA) Study. The report provides a full analysis of the final outcomes at 24 months, and presents policy implications of the study.

Sector Policy Project Executive Summary No. 3-Measuring Up and Weighing In: Industry Based Workforce Development Training Results in Strong Employment Outcomes
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This executive summary is the third in a three-part series, the purpose of which is to make both the general concept of sector strategy and the particular outcomes of sector programs accessible to policymakers in easy-to-understand terms. To this end, the authors benchmark SEDLP findings against those from well-respected workforce development demonstration projects, particularly the National Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA) Study. The executive summary provides an analysis of the final outcomes at 24 months, and presents policy implications of the study.

SEDLP Research Report No. 3: Gaining Ground: The Labor Market Progress of Participants of Sectoral Employment Development Programs
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
Gaining Ground is the third and final report in the SEDLP research series. These reports have documented the labor market experiences of 732 participants in six industry-based workforce development programs over time. This report presents findings on participants two-years after the end of training and describes such information as participants' earnings, employment, experience in the job market, job satisfaction and access to employer-provided benefits. In addition to discussing outcomes of training for all participants, the report presents outcomes of training for participant subgroups, including participants who were on welfare at the start of training.

Working with Value: Industry-specific Approaches to Workforce Development
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This report presents a synthesis of findings from the recently completed Sectoral Employment Development Learning Project (SEDLP). SEDLP was a multi-year learning evaluation conducted by the Economic Opportunities Program that was designed to investigate the key characteristics, operating features, and effectiveness of six employment development programs that utilize industry-specific strategies to help low-income populations obtain skills and career opportunities that enable self-sufficiency.

Cooperative Home Care Associates: A Case Study of a Sectoral Employment Development Approach
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
The Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) is a worker-owned cooperative and employer-based training program that provides home health aide services in New York City's South Bronx and Northern Manhattan. The cooperative was launched in 1985 as part of a strategy to improve the low-wage occupation of the home health aide. This case study documents the organization's evolving approach to operating as part of the home health industry, noting its strategies and accomplishments in the areas of improving the quality of jobs, developing career ladders, influencing industry practice and effecting policy change. Details on the organization's operations and approach to training are also provided.

Legacy of Abuse
Alice H. Henkin, Editor. Explores transitional justice, in particular the ways in which a society that has endured gross abuses of human rights can come to terms with the past and move on to become a rights-respecting community. Reviews the detention of General Pinochet, indictment of President Milosovic by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and claims for reparations for events long past in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and the United States. 96 pages, 2002.

Dam Removal - A New Option For a New Century (2002)
Once perceived as almost entirely beneficial, dams are seen more realistically today as having both positive and negative effects. Some of the tens of thousands of dams in the United States are aging beyond their expected lifespan, and some are causing a variety of safety, environmental, and other problems. Dealing with these situations can be a costly and controversial task. One possible solution to these dilemmas - and in some cases the best solution - is dam removal. The removal of some dams can be straightforward and inexpensive. But for many dams, evaluating and implementing this option can be difficult. Both the report and the pamphlet are available in hard copy.

In Search of the Public Interest in the New Media Environment
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
In 2001, the FOCAS session addressed how we might fund "public interest" content when all media are moving toward digital transmission. It centered on a proposal by Lawrence Grossman and Newton Minow called "A Digital Gift to the Nation" to apply proceeds of US spectrum auctions to fund cultural and educational content and transmission. The Conference had to define public interest in the new digital context, and this yielded a report that not only critiqued the Grossman/Minow proposal, but also suggested innovative alternatives. The publication also includes afterthoughts from an international perspective by British historian Asa Briggs. 2002.

Mission-Driven Media: Not Just Survival, But Success
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
by Titus Levi. Mission-driven media-for the sake of definition-is a term coined for the group of ethnic, cultural, community, and social justice media whose purpose drives them beyond the profit motive or being a general news source for a heterogeneous community. This report offers measures to improve the financial and business workings of mission-driven media.

Rethinking Boundaries in Cyberspace
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
by Erez Kalir and Elliot E. Maxwell. This report addresses difficult questions surrounding a state's control over the relationships among its citizens, citizens of other countries, and the Internet. A product of Aspen Institute's Internet Policy Project, this publication is a synthesis of three days of conversations among leading technologists, entrepreneurs, academicians, and policy makers looking at current trends in which states are seeking to extend their jurisdiction in cyberspace.

Telecommunications Competition in a Consolidating Marketplace
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
In the telecommunications world, what would a fully competitive environment look like? What communications initiatives should policymakers develop -- considering the ultimate welfare of the consumer -- to implement change in the regulatory climate? This report explores ways to reshape the current regulatory environment into a new competitive space. It addresses competition not only within but across separate platforms of communications such as cable, wireline telephony, wireless, satellite, and broadcast. This publication also includes an essay on an innovative approach to wireless regulation, "Opening the Walled Airwave," by Eli M. Noam. 2002.

The Internet Time Lag: Anticipating the Long-Term Consequences of the Information Revolution
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
By Evan I. Schwartz. This report takes a wide-ranging look toward the economic, business, social, and political consequences of the Internet, as well as its wide-ranging ramifications for the process of globalization. 2002.

Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion
By Ilana Shapiro, PhD. Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion is an in-depth review and comparison of 10 anti-racism programs from across the US.

Social Impact Management and Social Enterprise: Two Sides of the Same Coin or a Totally Different Currency?
(a Business & Society Program publication)
As attention to these interrelated topics grows in business schools, Aspen ISIB examines how curricular, research and institutional initiatives in each area can reinforce initiatives in the other.

Journalism and Commercial Success: Expanding the Business Case for Quality News and Information
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Is great journalism compatible with great business in the context of the current media marketplace? Authored by Neil Shister, this report of the sixth annual Aspen Institute Conference on Journalism and Society offers a starting point in the search for understanding how to realize both goals in the face of market trends and pressures that have roiled the journalism profession in recent years. This publication also includes a proposal by Charles M. Firestone, "Inform America" - a collaborative project on citizen responsibilities among media entities, journalists, educators, and the public at large. 2002, 72 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-365-7.

Global Interdependence in Agriculture: A User's Guide for Effective Communication
This guide summarizes and highlights some of the key information from the full GII toolkit for use by US Department of Agriculture and its university partners as they seek to infuse a global perspective into agricultural teaching, research, and extension programs across the nation.

From Values to Advocacy: Activating the Public's Support for U.S. Engagement in an Interdependent World
GII's three-year report looks at the values Americans believe we should live by in addressing global issues -- and why those values are rarely reflected in policy actions. Includes a summary of research commissioned by GII and examples of how the research is shaping more effective communications to the public and to policymakers. 2002.

Energy Supply Increase and Demand Reduction: Searching for Strategies (2002)
The April 2002 Pacific Rim Energy Workshop was held in Seoul, Korea, hosted and co-sponsored by Seoul City Gas Company and the Council on Energy and Environment - Korea. Participants from 14 countries explored policies to ensure adequate and affordable energy supplies while moderating demand for energy in an economically and socially acceptable fashion. Moderator and Rapporteur, Loren Cox.

U.S. Policy on Climate Change: What Next? (2002)
Presents the papers of the 2002 Aspen Environmental Policy Forum. Co-chairs Frank Loy, former Undersecretary of State, and Bruce Smart, former Undersecretary of Commerce, conclude that the scientific case for action is clear, voluntary actions alone are insufficient, new technology is critical, and the U.S. economy needs an early, credible signal from government that a cost will be imposed on greenhouse gas emissions.

Religious Organizations and Government
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)

What Do We Teach When We Teach Social Impact Management?
(a Business & Society Program publication)
Business schools are under increased pressure to demonstrate that they are preparing their students to be more "ethical" managers. But what exactly should schools be teaching - and how do we know it when we see it? This is a Fall 2002 Report.

Foundation Accountability and Effectiveness
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)
The NSSG is an initiative of The Aspen Institute?s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, which seeks to improve the operation of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy through research and dialogue focused on public policy, management, and other important issues affecting the nonprofit sector. This pamphlet provides an introduction to the work of the NSSG, followed by the group?s statement, Foundation Accountability and Effectiveness. 2002

Business Leaders Dialogue 2002
(a Business & Society Program publication)
The theme of the 2002 Dialogue was "Business and Trust: The Role of Global Business in the 21st Century." This is a July 2002 report.

Raising the Stakes or Finally Seeing Them Clearly
(a Business & Society Program publication)
Is "balanced leadership" a luxury affordable only in bull economies? By examining several apparent "leadership paradoxes," the authors assert that "the true stakes of corporate leadership are being revealed and the true responsibilities and functions of corporate leaders are being defined, even as the impacts on all stakeholders are heightened by economic upheaval" This is a January 2002 report.

The Nonprofit Sector and Government: Clarifying the Relationship
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)

Vulnerability & Resilience (2002)
Report from the 2002 Energy Policy Forum. The book takes its theme from concerns about various forms of security following terrorist attacks, anxiety about Mideast oil supplies, worries about the sustainability of energy systems, and uncertainty about the restructuring of the electricity industry.

Project QUEST: A Case Study of a Sectoral Employment Development Approach
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This case study provides a detailed account of Project QUEST, a workforce development program in San Antonio, Texas that works closely with industry and community partners to create training and career opportunities that help low-income people move out of poverty. Project QUEST is unique among the programs participating in the SEDLP in that it operates in multiple industry sectors within San Antonio's economy. The study describes the benefits and challenges of undertaking a multi-sector strategy.

Sector Policy Project Executive Summary No. 2-Measure for Measure: Assessing traditional and sectoral strategies for workforce development
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
In Executive Summary No. 2, the 12-month employment and earnings outcomes from the Sectoral Employment Development Learning Project participant survey are presented alongside benchmarks from other job training and welfare-to-work evaluations, especially the National JTPA Study (NJS). The Sector Policy Series benchmarks findings from SEDLP against those from other employment training demonstration projects in order to make the outcomes of sector programs accessible to policymakers in easy-to-understand terms.

Sector Policy Project Report No. 2-Measure for Measure: Assessing traditional and sectoral strategies for workforce development
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
In Report No. 2, the 12-month employment and earnings outcomes from the Sectoral Employment Development Learning Project participant survey are presented alongside benchmarks from other job training and welfare-to-work evaluations, especially the National JTPA Study (NJS). The Sector Policy Series benchmarks findings from SEDLP against those from other employment training demonstration projects in order to make the outcomes of sector programs accessible to policymakers in easy-to-understand terms.

SEDLP Research Report No. 2: Closing the Gap: How Sectoral Workforce Development Programs Benefit the Working Poor
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This publication examines data from a longitudinal survey of participants in six sectoral employment training programs, and documents what participants report, one year after completing training, about their earnings, employment situation and experiences with the programs. This is the second in a series of reports developed through the Sectoral Employment Development Learning Project (SEDLP), which collects data on participants at four intervals: baseline, 90 days after training ends, one year after training completion and two years after training completion. This series should be especially useful to: practitioners designing training programs; policy makers shaping our workforce development system; and researchers interested in learning more about innovative approaches to workforce development.

Where will They Lead? Executive summary of Aspen ISIB's Student Attitudes Survey
(a Business & Society Program publication)
The survey, published in December 2001, is the first ever longitudinal survey of MBA student attitudes on the relationship of business to society. The results show that MBA programs do influence attitudes and that business schools are not adequately preparing students. 2001.

Transforming the American High School: New Directions for State and Local Policy
An occasional paper prepared by Michael Cohen, Senior Fellow, and jointly published with Jobs for the Future. "At a time when high schools must be pathways to college for all students, they are pathways to nowhere for many."

Recommendations on Human Services Policy for the Next New York City Mayor and Council
RCCI Working Paper Series. by Jack Krauskopf, Senior Fellow. The Aspen Institute November 2001.

The Nonprofit Sector and the Market: Opportunities & Challenges
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)

Mission Possible? Incremental and Radical Action Agenda for Transforming the American High School
Summarizes the outcome of the second Aspen Workshop on the American High School, held in July 2001. It charts two separate but complementary strategies of transformation, each with specific action steps for local and state leaders.

Review of Selected High School Reform Strategies
Jennifer Husbands and Stacy Beese, Stanford University. Identifies five approaches to high school reform - small schools, applied learning, professional development, youth development, and whole school reform - and canvasses the available empirical evidence on their respective effects on students' academic achievement.

The Nonprofit Sector and Business: New Visions New Opportunities New Challenges
(a Nonprofit Sector & Philanthropy Program publication)

Community Involvement in Partnerships with Educational Institutions, Medical Centers, and Utility Co
A paper prepared by the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Community Involvement in Partnerships with Educational Institutions, Medical Centers, and Utility Companies
RCCI Working Paper Series. A paper prepared by the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for the Annie E. Casey Foundation; January 2001. By Karen Fulbright-Anderson, Patricia Auspos, Andrea Anderson.

Energy Supply and Infrastructure (2001)
In 2001, in the wake of a year of energy price volatility, serious electricity supply and price problems in California, and new proposals for energy legislation, the 25th annual Energy Policy Forum examined factors affecting energy supply and infrastructure. Former Energy and Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger chaired the Forum, which included sessions on natural gas supply, the California electricity crisis, the future of electricity restructuring elsewhere, and domestic and world oil markets. Rapporteur, Paul Runci.

Misery Loves Companies
(a Business & Society Program publication)
With the support of Aspen BSP, Joshua Margolis of Harvard Business School and James Walsh of University of Michigan Business School conducted a comprehensive literature review of research investigating the link between corporate social performance and financial performance.

Developing Balanced Leaders 2001: Summary Report
(a Business & Society Program publication)
The Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program's 2001 convening of executive educators focused on "Balanced Leadership During Turbulence and Crisis."

American Journalism in Transition: A View at the Top
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
by Amy Korzick Garmer. In an age of expanding media, relentless competition, and demanding public markets, what are the incentives to produce quality journalism? And, if journalism is truly a unique and important form of communication for American democracy, what can contemporary media leaders do to sustain a tradition of great journalism for the future? These are a few of the questions addressed by some of the nations leading media chief executive officers, senior news executives, and journalists in American Journalism in Transition: A View at the Top, a cogent and timely exploration of the challenges of producing quality journalism in a rapidly evolving and expanding media marketplace. Authored by Amy Korzick Garmer, director of the Communications and Society Programs Journalism Projects, this report is a product of the fifth annual Aspen Institute Conference on Journalism and Society. 2001, 64 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-327-4.

Coming Together?Bridging the Gap between Investors and Minority Internet Entrepreneurs
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Robert M. Entman, rapporteur. This report is a thought-provoking presentation of the problems minority Internet entrepreneurs face in their quest for venture capital funding. It also recommends some initiatives for overcoming the paucity of funding opportunities. 2000, 38 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-298-7.

Sustaining Media Pluralism in Democratizing Societies
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
The questions confronting many nations transitioning from nondemocratic rule are whether their transitions are permanent or passing and what obstacles lie in the way of democratic consolidation. This report of the Second International Roundtable on Journalism and Free Expression explores the role of a pluralistic press as a means for sustaining civil society and democracy, and the difficulties of achieving a pluralistic press that is sustainable over time. Authored by Craig LaMay, associate dean of the Northwestern University School of Journalism, it is a coherent examination on how free and responsible media are supposed to sustain themselves particularly in countries facing a hostile legal or political regime on the one hand and the demands of the consumer marketplace on the other. 2001, 59 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-324-X.

Changing Rules In the Market for Attention: New Strategies for Minority Programming
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Richard P. Adler, rapporteur. A report of the Aspen Institute Forum on Diversity and the Media. This report addresses new strategies and business models for producing and distributing news, entertainment, and general programming in traditional and digital media with the goal of increasing minority participation in all levels of the media. 2000, 68 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-293-6.

Uncharted Territory: New Frontiers of Digital Innovation
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
David Bollier, rapporteur. This report on the Ninth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology looks critically at key insights on the new economy and its implications in light of the digital revolution. The report begins with an interplay between the current economy and the capital economy and then probes into the emerging world of mobile commerce and its potential for driving the next great boom in the economy. It further explores new business models resulting from the combination of mobile communications and the new economy. 2001, 68 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-307.

Campaigns in Cyberspace: Toward A New Regulatory Approach
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Anthony Corrado, rapporter. This report provides an overview of online campaigning, the current regulatory environment, and sets forth participant-developed proposals for addressing several of the most troublesome issues. 2000, 44 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-290-1.

Business Leaders Dialogue 2001: Executive Summary
(a Business & Society Program publication)
The theme of the 2001 Dialogue was "Wealth Creation and the Global Community: The Role of Corporations in the 21st Century."

Ecologies of Innovation: The Role of Information and Communications Technologies
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
David Bollier, rapporteur. This report on the Eighteenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology explores the nature of innovation and the role of information and communications sectors in fostering ecologies of innovation. In this context, the report examines the ways that the creation of new ecologies are impacting significant societal institutions and policies, including foreign policies, industry and business structures, and power relationships. 2000, 44 pages.

Preparing Business Leaders to Manage Social Impacts: Lessons from the Field
(a Business & Society Program publication)
A systematic look at both the "demand" for, and the "supply" of, business education that addresses the complex interdependency between business needs and wider societal concerns. 2001.

Six Degrees of Competition: Correlating Regulation With the Telecommunications Marketplace
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Explores to what extent should or could journalists be involved in these decisions at the policy levels of government and business.

American Military Strategy: Memos to a President
(an Aspen Strategy Group publication)
Zelikow, Philip D. (Ed.)- see also Zoellick, Robert B., May, Ernest ; Naftali, Timothy and below (2001) ISBN: (0-393-97711-0) paper. The Aspen Policy Books is a series of brief books devoted to developing new thinking on U.S. national security, cooperative measures to reduce conflict, and international policies of the United States, from national defense strategy to issues of international political economy. The books are collections of "memos to the president" on selected global policy issues. Public policy practitioners, students, and the general public are target audiences for these books.

Values For the Digital Age: The Legacy of Henry Luce
(a Communications & Society Program publication)
Gerald M. Levin, keynote address. Disruption and Disorientation: American Journalism in Transition. David Bollier, rapporteur. This report on the Third Annual Conference on Journalism and Society is the third publication of an ongoing Aspen Institute project designed to explore the role of journalism in a democratic society. Values for the Digital Age includes the keynote address to the conference by Gerald Levin, chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc., and a report of the conference by David Bollier. 2000, 63 pages, ISBN Paper: 0-89843-284-7.

SEDLP Research Brief No. 1: Key Findings from the Baseline Survey of Participants
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
In an effort to document and learn about the effect that sectoral employment development programs have on the income and employment opportunities of poor Americans, SEDLP's Participant Study gathers extensive pre- and post-training information from a 732 person sample. This publication summarizes important demographic, economic, and employment characteristics that were collected during the study's baseline survey.

Sector Policy Project Report No. 1-Measure for Measure: Assessing traditional and sectoral strategies for workforce development
(an Economic Opportunities Program publication)
This executive summary is the first in a three-part series, the purpose of which is to make both the general concept of sector strategy and the particular outcomes of sector programs accessible to policymakers in easy-to-understand terms. This report examines the findings from the Sectoral Employment Development Learning Project alongside research and documentation from the Na