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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Displaying What We Do: Field Building
Roundtable on Community Change
The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change produces a number of books, reports and working papers each year. Here you can find Roundtable publications and research, and check out our current...
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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=30April 2013"Working Together to Bridge the Skills Gap"...
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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...
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Publication | February 28, 2013 | Matt Helmer
Economic Opportunities Program
This issue of Update looks at the challenges adult learners face as they attempt to enter community college, persist to completing a certificate or degree, and successfully transition to employment....
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Publication | September 30, 2012 | Luz Gomez & Joyce Klein
Economic Opportunities Program
This guide illustrates a step-by-step process that organizations engaged in microlending can use to generate benchmarking data related to lending on the microTracker site.
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Publication | February 1, 2013 | Elaine Edgcomb and Tamra Thetford, with Ilgar Alisultanov
Economic Opportunities Program
This report, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as part of the “Big Ideas for Jobs” project, details the role that microbusinesses – firms that employ five of fewer workers – play in supporting...
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