The Institute’s small but passionate Aspen Institute Kyiv team has had some striking accomplishments recently. This fall, they held their second Ideas Festival. (Aspen Kyiv and Aspen India are the only two international branches of the Institute that host an Ideas Festival.) It was a resounding success, with more than 3,000 registrants and 160 speakers. That achievement is perhaps unsurprising given the importance of the people connecting with the Institute in Ukraine. There are an incredible number of young Aspen Kyiv alumni in the new government, including the newly named prime minister, 23 of the 230 ministers in Parliament, and five Cabinet members. It is a striking endorsement of Aspen Kyiv’s reach. Demand for their various seminars is through the roof, averaging a 14-person deep waitlist for every slot in their basic Executive Leadership Seminar. In the last decade, seminar attendance has gone from 24 total seminar participants to almost 600. Aspen Kyiv also has five policy programs, including their Good Governance Forum, which explores critical issues of trust and democracy, social media, and Russian propaganda.
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Publications Section 4: Strengthening Practices to Improve Job Quality
Tools: Employee Ownership
View tools and resources related to employee ownership.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Centering Workers in Workforce Development
The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance collaborates with employers and stakeholders to boost employment, earnings, and equity for local workers.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Lessons and Leadership To Foster Economic Justice for Illinois Workers
LEP trains workers to promote equity, enforce rights, build unions, develop leaders, ensure workplace safety, and advance economic justice.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Worker Owned and Worker Driven
While the rideshare apps have increased convenience, they’ve eroded job quality. See how the Drivers’ Cooperative is helping to end exploitative conditions.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Creating Employee-Owned Businesses That Provide Good Jobs and Succeed
Through employee ownership, The Industrial Commons is building a new Southern working class that erases the inequities of generational poverty.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Strengthening the Hidden Resilience Workforce
We see the effects of climate change, but we rarely see the people who help to rebuild — and they often lack safe conditions, decent pay, or benefits.
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Advancing a Pro-Worker, Pro-Climate Agenda in Texas
The Texas Climate Jobs Project advances a pro-worker, pro-climate agenda — helping to solve the climate crisis while creating millions of good jobs.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Organizing and Coalition Building for Structural Change
LAANE, led by Job Quality Fellow Roxana Tynan, is fighting to build an economy rooted in good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.
Job Quality Fellows Profile Series Longform
Organizing Unemployed and Underemployed Workers
UWU, led by Job Quality Fellow Neidi Dominguez, engages unemployed/underemployed workers, a population that has not been mobilized at scale since the 1930s.
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How Local Journalism Can Bring Communities Together
MIT Center for Constructive Communication Director Deb Roy explains how the caricatures Republicans and Democrats paint of each other diverge from reality, and the ways local newsrooms can leverage their “trust capital” and emerging technology to promote listening and understanding amid disagreement.