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 Institute to Host Third Annual Symposium on the State of Race in America

Communications and Society Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Kiahna WilliamsSenior Project ManagerCommunications and Society Program202-736-5818kiahna.williams@aspeninstitute.orgASPEN INSTITUTE TO HOST THIRD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM... Read More

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus: Social Business to End Poverty, Unemployment, and Lack of Health: Investing in What Really Matters

Event | April 19, 2013 |
Washington, DC
Aspen Global Health and Development
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus will receive the Congressional Gold Medal on April 17th in Washington, DC and will be the seventh person in history to have received the Congressional Gold... Read More

Winter Words 2013 - Gretel Ehrlich

Video | April 17, 2013
Gretel Ehrlich on "Facing the Wave." The Environmental Writer discusses her book inspired by survivors of the 2011 Japanese tsunami.Winter Words is a series of readings and talks featuring some of... Read More

Winter Words 2013 - Gretel Ehrlich

Event | February 20, 2013 |
Aspen, CO
Aspen Writers' Foundation
Gretel Ehrlich on "Facing the Wave." The Environmental Writer discusses her book inspired by survivors of the 2011 Japanese tsunami.Winter Words is a series of readings and talks featuring some of... Read More

Leonard Lauder's Other Art Collection

Blog Post | April 10, 2013 | Anonymous
While Aspen Institute Trustee Leonard Lauder made news for his recent contribution of a $1 billion Cubism collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the high art of his Picassos and Braques is but... Read More

Business Schools Embrace the Liberal Arts

Business and Society Program
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Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund

Forum for Community Solutions
There are currently 6.7 million opportunity youth – defined as young people between the ages of 16 – 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor participating in the labor market – who represent... Read More

About The Business and Society Program

Business and Society Program
MISSIONThe Business and Society Program builds on 60 years of Aspen Institute programming to help established and emerging business leaders put values at the heart of practice. Through dialogue... Read More

Three LA Teams Win Aspen Challenge Competition for Their Innovative Solution to Global Challenges

The Aspen Challenge
Contact: Lydia RamosLos Angeles Unified School District213-241-7000lydia.ramos@lausd.net THREE LA TEAMS WIN ASPEN CHALLENGE COMPETITION FOR THEIR INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO GLOBAL CHALLENGESStudents... Read More

Yo-Yo Ma Named 2013 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence

Blog Post | April 9, 2013 | Anonymous
"As a musician, I'm trained to do two things at the same time: work toward a goal larger than myself and pay attention to the smallest possible detail,” said recently named 2013 Harman-Eisner Artist... Read More

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