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Ascendium Education Philanthropy is a division of Ascendium Education Group.

Media Partnerships

Our philanthropy amplifies important information across the nation, helping good ideas become systemic change for learners from low-income backgrounds.

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WHY MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS?

High-quality reporting and storytelling are vital for investigating, proposing, and disseminating systemic solutions to challenges faced by learners from low-income backgrounds. When media highlight problems alongside evidence-based solutions, successful practices have the potential to scale up. Media amplification can also encourage individual policymakers, communities, and government agencies to address critical issues in improving postsecondary education and workforce training outcomes. By framing and amplifying the issues critical to improving postsecondary education and workforce training outcomes, media partners get important information in front of those who can advocate for and make real, systemic change.

Learn more about how our media partnerships support learners from low-income backgrounds.

2021 Rural Matters Podcast

Michael Levin-Epstein|$56,000|4/2021 - 6/2022
This grant supports Michael Levin-Epstein in producing an eight-part podcast series focused on postsecondary education and workforce training in rural communities on the Rural Matters podcast.

Maintain Momentum: Supporting Postsecondary Education Membership Organizations and Networks

Yes We Must Coalition|$80,000|7/2020 - 6/2022
This grant supports the Yes We Must Coalition and its members in continuing to advance student success reforms despite COVID‐19‐related impacts.

Ascendium Practitioner and Research Fellows

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness|$55,710|6/2021 - 6/2022
This grant supports the attendance of 10-15 postsecondary researchers at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness 2021 Annual Conference and three summer research fellows.

Maintain Momentum: Supporting Postsecondary Education Membership Organizations and Networks

Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area|$300,000|12/2020 - 6/2022
This grant supports the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area and its members in continuing to advance student success reforms despite COVID‐19‐related impacts.

Convening a Student Success Advisory Council

Southern Regional Education Board|$30,000|7/2021 - 6/2022
This grant supports the Southern Regional Education Board in convening a student success advisory council focused on supporting students from rural and low-income backgrounds.

Co-Designing Equitable Pathways in Appalachia

The Institute for Educational Leadership Inc|$50,000|11/2021 - 6/2022
This grant supports the Institute for Educational Leadership in exploring the implementation of a framework for career partnerships with a cohort of community colleges across the Appalachia region. They plan to leverage their robust Appalachian Workforce Network and use this convening to build buy-in and solidify goals for future work across the region.
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