Welcome to your Change Lab dashboard — your central hub for civic tools, local impact, and connection. Whether you’re dipping your toe in or doubling down on change, this is the space to begin, grow, and organize your momentum.
Choose from four Engagement Levels that meet you where you are — from getting curious to organizing for impact. Explore eleven civic Pathways rooted in what matters: food, housing, justice, education, systems change, belonging, and more.
Use the Content Types to filter by what moves you: stories, events, toolkits, podcasts, books, partners, and more. The control panels on the sides help you navigate, explore, and plug in.
WEAVE, a social fabric project
Founded by New York Times columnist David Brooks in 2018, WEAVE: The Social Fabric Project is an initiative of the Aspen Institute working to address America’s crisis of broken trust and social fragmentation. Born out of a national listening tour and guided by a deeply relational ethos, WEAVE exists to support people who prioritize connection, community, and belonging in their daily lives.
From neighborhood leaders and faith organizers to barbers, coaches, and volunteers, WEAVE uplifts these “weavers”—people who stitch their communities together through acts of trust and care. WEAVE supports them through storytelling, skill-building, funding, and connection, helping foster a culture that values relationships as much as results.
The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit think tank and leadership organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. Founded in 1949, the Institute convenes leaders across sectors to tackle the world’s most complex challenges through dialogue, research, and action. With a strong belief in values-based leadership, the Aspen Institute creates space for bold ideas, civil discourse, and meaningful impact.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with locations across the U.S. and abroad, Aspen serves as a neutral ground where changemakers collaborate on solutions across lines of difference.
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