Income Inequality

In an Early Learning Nation article – alongside profiles of five 2022 Ascend Fellows – Ascend’s Anne Mosle shares the vision for leadership amplification with the newest cohort of leaders in the Ascend Fellowship.

In an op-ed for Philanthropy News Digest, Ascend’s Anne Mosle explains the power and importance of engaging parents in order to build paths of prosperity for children and families.

In an EdSurge article – alongside profiles of four Ascend Fellows – Ascend’s Anne Mosle shares insights into the Ascend Fellowship’s focus to shine an extremely bright light on the nation’s youngest children and families.

In an article for Inside Higher Ed, Ascend’s Anne Mosle shares insights into the value of education for family economic mobility, financial security and ultimately well-being.

The pandemic and associated crises bring new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

David Croom and our Postsecondary Success for Parents partners were featured in a Hechinger Report article raising awareness of the student father population in higher education and the essential resources and supports to increase graduation rates.

David Croom and our Postsecondary Success for Parents partners were featured in NPR discussing the opportunities for colleges and universities to make higher ed more accessible for parenting students.

David Croom was quoted in U.S. News discussing the stigma student parents face that prevent them from fully participating in higher education communities.

In an Alabama NewsCenter article, Anne Mosle comments on the thought leadership of Melanie Bridgeforth, president and CEO of Women’s Foundation of Alabama, who is one of the 2021 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows.

In Pascale Sykes Foundation’s “Working Together for Working Families” podcast series, Ascend’s Marjorie Sims discusses the evolution of the two-generation approach (2Gen), shares why this approach to family empowerment works, and presents why resources allocated toward these efforts are as relevant as ever: Funding What Works: How Donors Can Invest in While Family Programs