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
