We're thrilled to share our new Impact & Inspiration Report! These 15 stories highlight how we:.✅ Transform the Landscape of Leadership.🤝 Catalyze Radical Collaboration.💸 Unlock Capital.🙌 Co-Create and Accelerate Solutions.

What does leadership for and with families look like in 2025? Join @FutureCaucus and Ascend Jan 16 from 4:00 – 5:00p.m. ET for “Courageous Leadership For and With Families: Policy, Systems & Structural Change in a New Era.”

RT @AspenInstitute: @aisha_nyandoro, an @AspenAscend Fellow and founder of @SpringboardToOp, has been named to the @TIME 100 Next list, rec….

RT @CloverNola: Clover's Strategy & Impact Officer, Arnel Cosey, Ph.D., will be taking the stage at @AspenAscend ThinkXChange! Dr. Cosey wi….

RT @AspenInstitute: Did you know that 1 in 5 college students are parents? Research from @AspenAscend shows that 40% of student parents fin….

We're looking forward to welcoming over 200 leaders to Aspen ThinkXChange: The National Forum on #2Gen Approaches! We're gathering this October 15-18 on the Aspen Meadows Resort to dive into policies and practices that advance intergenerational family well-being. #TXC24

22 Leaders. 14 States. 1 Goal: Transforming systems so that all children and families can thrive. Meet the 2024 @AspenInstitute Ascend Fellows!.

We're proud to partner with @mhmstx to launch Futuro Juntos (Future Together), a new #2Gen Learning Community that equips participating organizations with the knowledge and resources to increase families’ economic mobility in South Texas! .

RT @fcdusorg: Countdown to the kick-off of @readingby3rd's #GLRWeek 2024 and this session on promising #2Gen strategies for kindergarten re….

We’re excited to partner with @AECFNews on the release of its 2024 KIDS COUNT Data Book! This yearly report tracks the latest data on child well-being around the country. Download the full report:

To kick off the 20th @AspenIdeas Festival, we had the privilege of speaking with Ascend Fellow Leseliey Welch, MBA, MPH, Co-founder of Birth Detroit, and Grace Bastidas, Editor-in-Chief of Parents, on the importance of social capital. Learn more at:

RT @AspenInstitute: This Father's Day, let's take a moment to discuss how new dads need mental health support too. Read more in this interv….

Join us + @LEOatND on Thur, 6/13! LEO matches top researchers with leaders in the social service sector to conduct impact evaluations that help people move permanently out of poverty. Tune in! .

RT @AspenInstitute: “Culturally reverent care matters,” says Leseliey Welch, an @AspenAscend Fellow pioneering efforts to reverse the mater….

RT @HTLegalCenter: Dele Olojede, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, gave brilliant remarks reflecting on democracy, Nelson Mandela, and mor….

Check out our newest case study 📄,  A 2Gen Approach in Wisconsin! State leaders have undertaken a high level of work so that its systems reflect the reality that families’ lives and outcomes are interconnected.

RT @elissaavery: I'm so excited for this! Come hang out with me and two brilliant women to hear more about how to make care work in America….

Join us virtually on Mon, 5/13 for this #BookTalk! 📚 Elissa Strauss, Josephine Kalipeni, and Marjorie Sims will discuss the power of #caring for others and the role our policies have to address the cultural roots of the #caregiving crisis. RSVP ⬇

RT @SupportGenHope: “You may never know the impact you can have if you don’t try.”. In their new blog series, @AspenAscend gives the mic to….

Congratulations to our 2023-24 #ParentPowered Solutions Fund Partner, @TheOR_NOLA! 👏 Operation Restoration will strengthen its education department, which provides postsecondary & workforce development pathways for women & girls impacted by incarceration:

RT @ImaginableFut: There is so much to gain when #studentparents enrolled at #highered campuses are recognized & supported. New on our bl….