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
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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Publication | September 30, 2012 | Elaine Edgcomb & Tamra Thetford
Economic Opportunities Program
This guide illustrates a step-by-step process that organizations providing business development services can use to generate benchmarking data related to these services on the microTracker site, and...
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Publication | January 30, 2013 | Tamra Thetford
Economic Opportunities Program
How are microentrepreneurs combining self- and wage employment in today’s economic context? This issue of our Trendlines series uses data from FIELD’s microTracker client outcomes survey to analyze...
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Education and Society Program
This component of our site is under revision, so please contact educationinfo@aspeninst.org for a comprehensive overview of our work.The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program (Aspen Education...
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Education and Society Program
Want to Build a Better Teacher Evaluation? Ask a Teacher by Ross Wiener and Kasia Lundy, Education Week (April 29, 2013).Helping Teachers Learn by Brent Staples, The New York Times (April 13, 2013)....
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Our nation is facing some of the greatest challenges in a generation. And while our nonprofits, philanthropists and other social sector leaders have stepped-up to fill gaps, increase their...
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Forum for Community Solutions
Melody C. BarnesChairMelody Barnes is CEO of Melody Barnes Solutions LLC, a domestic strategy firm, and Vice Provost for Global Student Leadership Initiatives and Senior Fellow at the Robert F....
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