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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The Business and Society Program is dedicated to developing leaders for a sustainable global society. Through dialogues and path-breaking research, we create opportunities for executives and...
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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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Middle East Programs include Partners for New Beginning, the Emirates-Aspen Forum on Innovation, and the US-Lebanon Dialogue Program. These programs and initiatives work to catalyze and convene...
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Business and Society Program
For Corporate Responsibility Executives The Aspen Business & Society Leaders Forum engages, by invitation, senior executives pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a socially...
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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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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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