Past Events

Economic security shouldn’t be a lottery. Yet for millions of working families, stagnant wages and precarious jobs collide with the daily grind of managing money on shaky ground — leaving stability feeling less like a plan and more like a gamble.

Learn the basics of the policy process through our expansive framework for understanding policy change.

The Leadership Group on Scam Prevention will come together for a three-day retreat.

Get a glimpse into what the Aspen method of text-based dialogue can do to strengthen the connection between your leadership and your values

A live conversation on faith, pluralism, and the American experiment.

This webinar will explore Aspen FSP’s essential wealth metric, showing how it can help leaders across philanthropy, research, policy, and the private sector deepen their impact.

This session explores how reimagining ownership—from broad-based worker equity to public-interest frameworks—can ensure that the AI-powered economy generates a true “social dividend” rather than a private windfall. This event is part of the 2026 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, happening June 2-3 in Washington DC and online.

Set within an immersive indoor-outdoor environment, the experience will pair Socratic discussion with time spent exploring the Elk Mountains and the great outdoors. Drawing on a multidisciplinary canon from Thoreau and Darwin to contemporary voices, moderator veterans Elliot Gerson and Paul Andersen will help the group explore how humans have sought to tame, protect, and reshape nature while examining enduring questions about our place within it and how we define wilderness today.

Learn how to draft an op-ed to advance a broader goal of policy change in this 1-hour webinar.

This inaugural invite-only convening brings together cross-sector leaders to tackle the complete financial realities of older Americans.

Hear from builders and thinkers reimagining what data centers could be, from tiny distributed networks to public-owned utilities.

The AIDE Summit took place on September 9th in Austin, TX, where practitioners and leaders across state and local government, technology, private sector, civil society, volunteer organizations, community groups, and academia gathered to discuss the future of AI and emergency management.

For decades, economists and policymakers have debated how to help workers get better jobs. But what if the more fundamental problem is that employers have systematically redesigned work itself to make a third of the workforce expendable? In his forthcoming book, “Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment,” MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman examines this idea and what it would take to reverse it.

Learn the types of jobs in the policy space along with tips for applying to policy jobs and networking in this 1-hour webinar.