Aspen Ideas: Economy convening brought together leaders, scholars & innovators to explore how cities and networks can shape economic futures

These are the OYF Common Measures for collaboratives with larger geographic footprints.

Power of Place 2021 Digital Learning Series The Power of Place series focused on structural racism in the systems that touch opportunity youth (OY) and the interventions that best support youth and young adults to achieve their goals, including programs and systems that advance meaning-making, foster belonging, purpose and well-being, and deepen healing practices. The…

This month, with support from JPMorgan Chase and additional funders, including Prudential Financial and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions (AIFCS), a program of the Aspen Institute, awarded $1.6 million to innovative community collaboratives that seek to dramatically reduce the number of opportunity youth in communities across the country by…

2020 Brought New Investments and New Communities to the Aspen Institute Opportunity Youth Forum.

These are the members of the Opportunity Youth Forum community network.

by Monique Miles (Photo Credit: istockphoto.com) In communities across the country, demonstrators have peacefully organized to protest against violence. Protesters have been seeking justice for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner — among others — in an effort to demonstrate that all lives matter, especially the lives of young Boys and Men of Color…