The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit educational institution dedicated to enhancing the quality of leadership through informed dialogue. It convenes men and women who represent diverse viewpoints and backgrounds from business, labor, government, the professions, the arts, and the nonprofit sector to relate timeless ideas and values to the foremost challenges facing societies, organizations, and individuals. The Bertelsmann Foundation was founded in 1977 to perceive problems within society, to help solve them by developing exemplary models with experts from practical and theoretical fields, and to put these models into effect in certain areas of society. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was established in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie. The Endowment conducts research, discussion, publication, and education programs in international affairs and American foreign policy.
Activities cover a broad range of military, political, and economic issues.
Carnegie is the publisher of Foreign Policy magazine. The Centre for Economic Policy Research is a network of over 200 research fellows, based primarily in European universities. The Centre coordinates its fellows' research activities and communicates their results to the public and private sectors. Established in 1983, CEPR is a European economics research organization with uniquely wide-ranging scope and activities. The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonprofit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving understanding of American foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas.