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What do dialogue, leadership, and action look like when the world is in the
midst of a pandemic? It’s entrepreneurs aided by the [2]Aspen Global
Leadership Network focusing on the COVID-19 crisis. Or, [3]Aspen Digital
zeroing in on the media to understand the forces driving our country in a
year of unprecedented change. And it looks like [4]Aspen Challenge youth
tackling issues in their neighborhoods even when the platform went virtual.
All this and more was the work of the Aspen Institute in 2020. [5]Read more
about our impact.

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[7]Finding Hope In Community

The [8]Aspen Challenge brings together 20 teams of students from across a
selected city to pitch sustainable solutions to the issues facing their
communities. These pitches aren’t just abstract concepts, they reflect
weeks of collective effort. This work results in dozens of mini-revolutions
across each city—demonstrating the power of youth voice, agency, and
leadership. This year was a little different. The competition kicked off in
Louisville in January, and then pivoted to a digital experience during the
pandemic.
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[11]The Urgency of Now, Nationally and Internationally

What does the [12]Aspen Global Leadership Network do in a global pandemic?
It responds to the moment. Fellows used their businesses and networks to
get food, medicine, and other essential supplies to communities
disproportionately affected by the pandemic. One fellow in the Middle East
set up a food bank to feed thousands. In South Africa, a group of fellows
mobilized faith groups to create safe spaces for victims of gender-based
violence. And that was just the beginning.
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[15]A[16]n Economy for All

The intersecting brutalities of COVID-19 and entrenched systemic racism
have stripped bare any illusion that the economy is just or fair. The
[17]Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy, launched with its founding
partner the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, aims to change this.
APIE connects people realizing breakthroughs at the community level with
those crafting policy at the national level to ensure that change is
informed by what works and what is just. This Institute-wide approach is
already having an impact.
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[20]A Digital Response to Crisis

[21]Aspen Digital’s strategy in a time of crisis has been simple: use
expertise to shed more light than heat on the issues. That expertise lies
in three complex areas: technology, cybersecurity, and media. During both
the pandemic and the election cycle, Aspen Digital experts explained how
misinformation spreads, and offered solutions for what newsrooms, social
media platforms, businesses, and health authorities should do to respond.
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