The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.

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Skills for America's Future

Economic Opportunities Program
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Economic Opportunities Program
May 2013"Inaugural Luminant Power Track Class Graduates", Luminant Power Track, May 10http://www.luminantpowertrack.com/news.php?NID=30"Baltimore's Investment in Job Creation", Baltimore Sun,... Read More

Models of Success

Economic Opportunities Program
There are many employers that have successful partnerships with community colleges. These partnerships take many different forms. Businesses and community colleges collaborate on curricula... Read More

Skills for America's Future Our Vision and Purpose

Economic Opportunities Program
America’s 21st century competitiveness depends on a workforce that can contribute up-to-date skills, which is why Skills for America’s Future believes worker training and development is one of the... Read More

Skills for America's Future What We Do

Economic Opportunities Program
In an increasingly competitive global economy, America’s economic strength depends on the education and skills of its workers. Skills for America’s Future, an employer-led initiative of the Aspen... Read More

Food Security Strategy Group

The Food Security Strategy Group is a multi-program collaboration between the Energy & Environment, Global Health and Development, and Middle East Programs at the Aspen Institute, focused on long... Read More

Reinventing Low Wage Work

Reinventing Low Wage Work: Ideas That Can Work for Employees, Employers and the Economy.” Low wage jobs are a growing part of the U.S. economy, and AspenWSI is excited to continue this conversation... Read More

Working in America

The rewards of hard work the U.S. prides itself upon are increasingly absent for many of today's workers as they face low wages, limited employee benefits,  few training and advancement... Read More

Education and Society Program

The Aspen Education & Society Program provides an informed and neutral forum for education practitioners, researchers, and policy leaders to engage in focused dialogue regarding their efforts to... Read More

Staff

Roundtable on Community Change
Keith Lawrence, Co-Director. Keith has been a leading contributor to the Roundtable's work on structural racism and author of several related publications including Structural... Read More

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