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New Website, Investment Priorities and More

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Ascendium Education Group Announces New Philanthropy Website, Investment Priorities

The new website points partners to critical information on how Ascendium is working to change postsecondary and workforce training systems so that learners from low-income backgrounds can achieve upward socioeconomic mobility.

Emergency Grant Guidance

• Emergency Aid Grants? We Have Guidance to Share
• Essential Service: Tools of the Trade
• New Resource: Trends & Challenges in Financial Aid Awards

A Sharper Focus: 2019 Education Philanthropy Report

• Refined strategy focuses on increasing equity for learners from low-income backgrounds

New Grants Support a Spectrum of Student Success Initiatives

• ASU Local: Creating a New Model of College Success
• On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field

New Initiative Will Help "Optimize" HEP Delivery in MN, IA and NY

• CAPR Conference Reflects on Developmental Education Reform Research and Next Steps
• Reflections on the First Year of the Ascendium Fellowship Program
• New Book from the NAS Spotlights Strategies for Helping Those Not Benefitting from Developmental Math

Ascendium Announces Funding for Three Sites in Major Higher Education in Prison Initiative

Madison, WI— Ascendium Education Group has committed up to $5 million in funding for its new initiative, “Optimizing Delivery Systems for Higher Education in Prison: Postsecondary Pathways for Re-Entry Transition.” This initiative represents Ascendium’s first major project in the higher education in prison (HEP) space since unveiling a new funding strategy featuring HEP as one of four key focus areas earlier this year.

Fall 2019 Grantmaking Update

• Celebrating a New Campus in Our Own Community
• Danielle Vetter to Join Education Grantmaking Team
• On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field

GFE Annual Conference to Highlight Ascendium Grant Partners’ Great Work

• Mesa, Arizona Wins the FAFSA Completion Challenge
• New NAS Report Explores Strategies for Helping More Students Succeed in Math
• On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field

We’re Looking Forward to Connecting, Learning and Sharing at NCAN’s Annual Conference

• How to Build a High-Quality Higher Education in Prison Program
• Tools of the Trade Scholarship Helps Keep Wisconsin Apprentices on the Job
• Recent Grants