The Aspen Institute is a nonpartisan forum for values-based leadership and the exchange of ideas. From the stimulation of the Ideas Festival, to the projects conceived at the Resnick Aspen Action Forum, to deep policy studies done at our roundtables, the Aspen Institute brings together people with different outlooks to search for common ground and make the world a better place.
Lupe Ruiz, co-owner of Wing Champs in Raymondville, TX, discusses the benefits of the financial, technical, and moral support he received when starting his small business.
Ines Polonious, Communities Unlimited, and Dennis West, Northern Initiatives, discuss the challenges that rural entrepeneurs face accessing capital and management support with Joyce Klein of FIELD...
Ines Polonious, CEO of Communities Unlimited, explains the benefits of local business ownership in terms of job creation, sales taxes, and workforce development.
The third America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focuses on rural innovators who steward the nations’ natural resources and use those resources to create jobs and businesses. The presenters are amo...
Alumni of Summer Words conference alumni Stephanie Danler, Anna Noyes, and Molly Prentiss return to Aspen to discuss their newfound literary acclaim, the challenges of the publishing process, and t...