Aspen Institute
For Support Of The Rodel Fellowship And Its Efforts To Strengthen Governing Institutions
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/15/2014
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Aspen Institute’s Rodel Fellowship program was launched in 2005 to bring together the "rising stars" of American politics—mayors and other local officials, statewide elected officeholders, leading state legislators—to forge new relationships designed to transcend partisanship and help build a cohort of young leaders committed to finding common ground to deal with pressing national problems. Underwritten by the Rodel Foundations and directed by former Congressman Mickey Edwards, the program now has upwards of 200 fellows nationwide, many of whom have moved on to even higher public office. This project grant will enable the program to establish pilot projects to examine how it can amplify its impact by better connecting its fellows in a broad new systematic network.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.aspeninstitute.org/programs
Address
2300 N Street NW, #700, Washington, DC, 20037-1122, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change
The Aspen Institute, in partnership with Ananta Aspen Centre in India, manages the India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change. This sponsorship grant helped the institute assemble a group of experts from government, NGOs, academia, and the business community to help define a constructive bilateral agenda on critical energy and climate concerns. The Track II Dialogue aims to foster trust and cooperation, and uses targeted analyses to suggest concrete pathways for collaboration between the governments and relevant subnational and nonstate actors. (Substrategy: Multilateral)
for membership support of the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation
Hewlett Foundation membership.
for the project Advancing a New Paradigm for Public Education
The Aspen Institute is a nonpartisan forum for values-based leadership and the exchange of ideas. Its Education & Society Program seeks to improve public education outcomes by informing, influencing, and inspiring education leaders across policy and practice, with an emphasis on achieving equity for students of color and students from low-income families. The Aspen Institute asserts that in today’s complex educational landscape, the country lacks a unifying vision for its public schools. This grant supports a series of exploratory conversations to reconceptualize public education’s purpose, discuss plausible definitions of success, and consider the measures of progress that would accompany a new paradigm for public education. (Strategy: K-12 Teaching and Learning)
