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Women in Leadership

Make Way for These Changemakers

What does it look like when people rise to the challenge and lead the charge to tackle some of the world's toughest problems?

BY Zach St. Louis

Podcast

04.19.2018
Civic Action

Watch This Year's Aspen Challenge Winners

Students from Philadelphia and Chicago will be presenting at the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer thanks to these initiatives.

BY Nicole Corea

Blog Post

06.16.2017
Civic Action

Watch This Year's Aspen Challenge Winners

Students from Philadelphia and Chicago will be presenting at the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer thanks to these initiatives.

BY Nicole Corea

Blog Post

04.18.2017
Civic Action

America's Youth Deserve Tomatoes, Not Twinkies

Chicago high school Students are taking a real food challenge.

BY Joan Haug

Blog Post

04.03.2017
Civic Action

Include Young People in the Budgeting Process

Participatory budgeting can give communities control over where their money goes.

BY Shari Davis

Blog Post

03.31.2017
The Environment

Saving the World Isn't Just a Fantasy

The next generation holds hope for the environment.

BY JT Reager

Blog Post

03.28.2017
Health Care

Health Care Solutions Need to Come from the Ground Up

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel challenged Philadelphia high schoolers to help solve health care access problems in their city.

BY Ezekiel Emanuel

Blog Post

03.27.2017
Civic Action

Five Challenges for Philadephia High Schoolers

For this year's Aspen Challenge event, 160 teens were challenged by five business and community leaders.

BY Zach St. Louis

Blog Post

02.09.2017
Around the Institute

Rising to the Challenge

The Aspen Challenge asks students to design solutions to the problems within their own communities. Below, three participants from MoneyLYFE, one of the 2016 winning teams, and the man who issued their challenge, share their stories of how they improved financial literacy in their community—and took a trip to Aspen along the way.

BY Gina Caneva, & 3 more

IDEAS Article

11.17.2016
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