Service Members Leaving the Military Per Year

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Unemployment Rate of Military Spouses

Skills Profiles Created Since 2018

Interviews Secured

*Each skills-first profile represents potential unlocked, and each interview represents a door opened to a strong career and a brighter future.

Donors Making a Difference

Where Collaboration Meets Impact

Your brand can power economic mobility for veterans and military spouses. Whether your goal is to drive social impact, strengthen brand equity, or build deeper community connections, we’ll help you fulfill your purpose through partnerships that make a lasting difference.

Making A Difference

Partnering with The ASCEND Collective allows employers to demonstrate leadership where it matters most — people, purpose, and progress. By hiring or sponsoring ASCEND programs, organizations visibly invest in veterans, military spouses, and underserved talent while advancing a skills-first, future-ready workforce model. This partnership strengthens employer brand reputation, reinforces commitments to equity and social impact, and positions companies as innovators who don’t just talk about opportunity — they build it.

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Your contribution plays a vital role in enabling us to continue our work across our key programs—Veterans ASCEND, MilSpouse ASCEND, Ability ASCEND, and Mission2 ASCEND. These initiatives are dedicated to transforming the employment landscape for Americans facing barriers to employment by aligning their skills with meaningful career opportunities.

Skills Training and Development: Offering cutting-edge, AI-driven training sessions that prepare our participants for the workforce, ensuring they are not only employable but also poised for career advancement.
Community Outreach: Increasing our capacity to reach more individuals who can benefit from our programs, thereby enhancing their employment prospects and quality of life.
Program Expansion: Helping us to grow existing programs and develop new initiatives that address the evolving needs of our community.

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Our Collective. Our Community.

The ASCEND Collective is a community based effort to bring advocacy and awareness to underserved talent.

90% of your donation goes to fueling futures by equipping military veterans, military spouses, diversely abled, justice-impacted talent and small business founders with voice, visibility, and readiness. Advocating for Potential. Equipping them for success through mentorship, career readiness tools and online learning courses for personal branding, resource referrals, and AI-enabled skills-based career matching.

Your support is Elevating Talent. Empowering Futures. Building Communities to ASCEND.

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How You Can Get Involved

Volunteer Program

Volunteers are the heartbeat of The ASCEND Collective. When you give your time, you give something far more powerful than advice to individuals navigating some of the most pivotal transitions of their lives. Veterans, military spouses, and other underserved talent.

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Join the Mission

Corporate Partners can sponsor our Northern Compass Academy, Vanguard Rising Lab, H.O.P.E. for HR Leadership course or our ASCEND HQ app. There are many ways to contribute to thriving communities and build brand awareness.

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Personal Donations

90% of your generous donation goes to creating career pathways for veterans, military spouses and other deserving communities. By supporting our mission, you support their success. After all that they’ve given our nation, your gift doesn’t just fund programs — it transforms lives, strengthens communities, and builds a future-ready workforce.

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Working together, we can make a difference in our communities.

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How Supporters Can Make an Impact

A corporate partnership helps us:

Expand access to free career readiness programs
Scale skills-first hiring solutions for employers
Build technology that removes systemic barriers
Elevate the voices of underserved talent
Strengthen small business leadership and workforce inclusion

Every contribution — financial, strategic, or advisory — creates real, measurable change.

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A single opportunity can change everything.

And that’s where you come in. Your support means:

Career pathways for military spouses, helping them achieve stable, portable employment that reduces food insecurity for their families.
Skills-based job matching for veterans, so they are recognized for their abilities — preventing underemployment and reducing the risk of homelessness.
Empowering justice-impacted and underserved talent, giving individuals a fair chance to rebuild and contribute.
Expanding employer education, helping businesses embrace inclusive, skills-first hiring that changes lives and strengthens communities.

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Learn more, donate or volunteer. Our Collective is YOUR community.