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For the launch of the Arts Resilient 305 program, the City of Miami Beach and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs invited local artists to commission new and repositioned site-specific temporary public art installations and performances highlighting issues related to climate change and sea level rise.

The award, which is one of the largest literary prizes of its kind in the United States, was established by the Aspen Institute to honor a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.

Lucy Perez, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, Woody L. Hunt, Senior Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hunt Companies, Inc.; and Nathalie Rayes, President and CEO of the Latino Victory Project, are the newest Advisory Board members of the Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program.

The prize competition, announced in November, seeks to fund unique and innovative projects that combat mis- and disinformation, building on the work of the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder. Semi-finalists will compete for a 75k grand prize at a live event on May 3rd.

The inaugural event in Miami Beach will bring some of the most exciting innovators and leaders together with the public to engage with local and global climate solutions with the potential to reshape our world.

“Reducing the Health Harms of Incarceration” is the result of a year-long study involving 18 nationally recognized leaders and experts across sectors, with input from the general public.

The James Irvine Foundation has awarded a $150,000 grant for the Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Program (AILAS) to bring nationally known consultant Bruce Katz of New Localism Associates to the city of San Bernardino to develop an investment playbook for the city.

The Health, Medicine & Society Program releases a new report recommending structural changes to current federal estimating and scorekeeping practices.

With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Gender Lens Investment Pay for Results Fund targets investors who are seeking to increase the gender impact of their portfolio. Each recipient will receive $20,000-$50,000 to develop the systems and processes necessary to employ a gender lens in investment.

With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Gender Lens Investment Pay for Results Fund targets investors who are seeking to increase the gender impact of their portfolio. Each recipient will receive $20,000-$50,000 to develop the systems and processes necessary to employ a gender lens in investment.