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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Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
    "I used the ANDE Careers web job board for a recent hire. The quality of applicants was amazing and in fact, I ended up hiring the very first one who replied to our posting.  For... Read More

GLC Resolve Award Innovation Profile: The Gambia

Publication | May 21, 2013
Aspen Global Health and Development
View or download this brief to learn more about why the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health selected the Gambia as a winner of the 2013 Resolve Award.  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

Teaching to the Core: Integrating Implementation of Common Core and Teacher Effectiveness Policies

Publication | May 14, 2013 | Ross Wiener
Education and Society Program
To strengthen state implementation of Common Core State Standards and meaningful teacher evaluations, the Aspen Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in this policy brief... Read More

Helping Adult Learners Navigate Community College and the Labor Market

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.... Read More

Leading the Pack, On Par, or Shaky? Benchmarking Loan Program Performance

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. Read More

Microenterprise Development as Job Creation

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... Read More

Benchmarking the Performance of Business Development Services

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... Read More

Income Patching among Microentrepreneurs

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... Read More

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