Ascend Covenings

A decade into 2Gen 2.0, what have we learned about family outcomes, and what’s the research roadmap for organizations moving forward? This session will provide a sweeping analysis of what we’ve accomplished and what the agenda looks like for 2Gen...

Lift up your heads and lower your shoulders: these Ascend Fellows will provide a dose of inspiration and action as they share their big ideas for intergenerational opportunity in 2023 and beyond.

Since 2012, Ascend has nurtured 2Gen solutions in Aspen’s own neighborhood, growing a Network of leaders and partners in Colorado and the District of Columbia with a focus on capacity-building, collaboration, and community impact. Here, leaders...

A new generation of leaders are innovating with the North Star of intergenerational prosperity and well-being. Leaders inside state agencies, informed by family voice and guided by ensuring equity, are joining with trusted community partners and...

Airea Matthews is the 2022-23 Philadelphia Poet Laureate – but she’s not the first poet laureate in her household. Her son Wes Matthews was the 2018-19 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, and together Airea and Wes will close out with a tribute...

Over the course of a year, leaders from across the country came together for the Aspen Two-Generation Prenatal to Three Learning and Action Community (2GP3 LAC). Today, you will hear key findings from their work and explore lessons for truly...