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: Community & Family Prosperity
Event | May 8, 2013 |
Washington, DC
Forum for Community Solutions
This convening will focus on the models and strategies being implemented across the country that are helping to build community self-reliance and leadership, while creating pathways to college and...
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Forum for Community Solutions
The Aspen Forum for Community Solutions is excited to announce the 36 communities that have been selected to apply to the Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund. These 36 communities have been recognized...
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Forum for Community Solutions
For more than 30 years, nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, government officials, representatives from the business sector and many others have been serving our nation's most vulnerable youth. Over...
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Blog Post | March 20, 2013 | Nayna Sasidharan
US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have acquired wide-ranging skills in technology and security, as well as leadership and project management, and yet they encounter a huge gap in...
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Blog Post | March 15, 2013 | Nayna Sasidharan
Every year, at the close of the Aspen Ideas Festival, a handful of speakers and attendees are asked to give the gathered one big idea—an idea inspired by the many moments blooming on the Aspen campus...
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Event | April 17, 2013 |
Aspen, CO
Youth sport now sits at a crossroads, amid the competing interests of entertainment, education, and public health. The evening will address new threats and opportunities to school sports, and explore...
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Blog Post | March 14, 2013 | Anonymous
On Monday, March 18, the Aspen Institute will launch its first-ever program dedicated to veterans issues, the Aspen Institute Veterans Initiative. The program aims to take on the challenge of...
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Video | March 19, 2013
The Aspen Institute proudly announces the launch of its Aspen Veterans Initiative, in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, DoD, HHS, Blue Shield of California Foundation, IAVA,...
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Video | March 20, 2013
A conversation with army combat veteran, businessman and youth advocate Wes Moore. He is author of "The Other Wes Moore."ModeratorWillie Geist, Co-host, NBC's TODAY, MSNBC's Morning Joe.
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