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A major strategy of Ascend is to elevate two-generation programs, which provide opportunities for and meet the needs of vulnerable children and their ...

Numerous studies over the past two decades show that parents’ educational attainment and their involvement in their child’s education leads to gre...

Follow @SarahCHaight Above, participants at the Summit discuss public-private partnerships in rural America A few months after his January 1964 State ...

Follow @MekaeliaD   Above, Ascend Fellows share their leadership values   Last month, I spent three days with a diverse group of leaders at ...

Follow @NickyGoren The 2013 Washington Area Women's Foundation Visionary Award Honorees from left to right: Anne Mosle, Marion Ballard, Sharon Wil...

From left: Jonathan Njus; Denise Hebner; Leasie Clark; Elyse Rosenblum; and Kavitha Cardoza There are currently 6.7 million opportunity youth, ages 16...