The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program presents this dialogue, which explores "Mistakes to Success: Learning and Adapting When Things Go Wrong," an important new book by Robert Giloth and Colin Austin.
Learning how to access, analyze, and create digital and media content with thoughtfulness and social responsibility is one of the key recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, whose landmark report, Informing Communities, was issued last year.
Since 1985, the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group has helped community leaders connect with and motivate each other. We help equip these leaders with the best ideas, tools and strategies to improve community and economic development, strengthen families, sustain natural resources, create locally controlled philanthropic assets, and build vital and just civic cultures.
Leaders on the ground know more - and can do the most - to make positive change happen in their communities. But community leaders too often operate in isolation. Distance, time and overload separate them from the helpful ideas and examples of their peers. Moreover, when they take on hefty community and e
“Neither traditional aid nor philanthropy will solve problems of poverty—nor will the market itself,” declared Jacqueline Novogratz, Henry Crown Fellow and founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund. Novogratz went on to assert that, when it comes to solving the problems of global poverty through philanthropy, “This is the moment to experiment.
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Select Racial Equity and Society Seminar Readings
From the January 2005 Racial Equity and Society and July 2006 Racial Equity and Youth Development Seminars.
