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: Tools & Resources
Publication | August 1, 2008
Education and Society Program
Publication | February 25, 2009
Community Strategies Group
Publication | February 25, 2009
The goal is to help educators and policymakers adopt statewide standards for youth entrepreneurship education, and revise existing education statutes, such as the No Child Left Behind Act, the Higher...
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Publication | January 15, 2008
Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI)
Online platforms like GlobalGiving, Kiva, Network for Good, GiveIndia, HelpArgentina, and so many more – hold the potential to transform both the quality and quantity of resources available for...
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Publication | February 25, 1998
Community Strategies Group
This report on the proceedings from a 1996 workshop focusing on entrepreneurship highlights the rich discourse on the culture of change necessary to create entrepreneurial economies able to compete...
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Publication | February 25, 2009
Entrepreneurship Education provides an effective response for a number of converging issues now facing us both in the policy world and in the classroom. From American competitiveness, workplace...
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Publication | | Clark Kent Ervin
Homeland Security Program
Read the Washington Post book review, America the Unprepared: The Department of Homeland Security's first inspector general warns that we are far from safe. Purchase from Amazon.
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Publication | November 5, 2008
Initiative on Financial Security
With a new President preparing to take office and a new Congress about to be sworn in, the Initiative on Financial Security has laid out a comprehensive savings agenda for policy makers to pursue in...
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Publication | February 25, 2009
Initiative on Financial Security
America is facing a savings and asset crisis. The savings rate has been hovering around zero since 2005 and, even with the expected uptick in savings in 2008, we are experiencing a period of lower...
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