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The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. [2] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. , but also has a campus in Aspen, Colorado , its original home.
At the Aspen Institute, Porterfield has led an era of organizational development and growth. The Institute’s operating budget has increased from $158 million in 2018 to more than $260 million in 2025, and its endowment has tripled to more than $350 million.
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Corby Kummer is executive director of Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor of The Atlantic, and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science. Kummer is the author of The Joy of Coffee and The Pleasures of Slow Food , the first book in English on the Slow Food movement , He has been called "a dean among ...
The Aspen Institute was founded by Walter Paepcke in 1950 in Aspen, Colorado. [10] Paepcke was a Chicago businessman and the founder of the Container Corporation of American (CCA). As a Germanophile, he and his wife, Elizabeth Paepcke, actualized a celebration and gathering in Aspen in June 1949 to mark the two-hundredth birthday of Johann ...
Kirk J. Schneider is a psychologist and psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement of existential-humanistic therapy, [1] [2] [3] and existential-integrative therapy. [4] Schneider is also the current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology . [ 5 ]
The Franklin Project was a policy program of the Aspen Institute from October 2012 to December 2015, that focused on advancing national service in the United States. Walter Isaacson called the project the "biggest idea" to come out of the Aspen Ideas Festival during his tenure as CEO of the Aspen Institute. [1]
Sidney Mortimer Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American polymath whose varied intellectual interests enabled him to flourish during a sixty-year career as an engineer, businessman, manager and philanthropist active in electronics, education, government, industry, and publishing.