WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS

Your support fuels:

  • Mental health healing circles

  • Women’s leadership pipelines

  • Youth entrepreneurship labs

  • Sports mentorship and resilience training

  • Civic leadership and democracy education

When you invest in Ascend Beyond, you are investing in the next generation of AAPI leaders. Every donation helps us create culturally grounded, healing-centered spaces where youth build confidence, belonging, identity, and power.


3% Cover the Fee

“Move with purpose. Lead with heart.”

- Ascend Beyond

  • Mental Health & Well-Being

    Ascend Beyond’s Mental Health & Well-Being Program provides healing-centered spaces for AAPI youth to strengthen emotional resilience and reduce stigma. Youth participate in culturally grounded peer circles, interactive workshops, and wellness experiences that affirm identity, belonging, and community connection.


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  • Women’s Leadership

    The Women’s Leadership Program uplifts AAPI young women through mentorship, leadership circles, confidence-building workshops, and career readiness training. We create environments where young women can take up space, own their voice, and lead with authenticity.


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  • Entrepreneurship & Innovation

     This program equips AAPI youth with the tools, skills, and support to build businesses, launch ideas, and explore creative pathways. Through startup training, business labs, pitch development, and financial literacy workshops, young people learn how to turn imagination into impact.


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  • Sports Leadership & Development Program

     Sports Leadership & Development uses athletics as a catalyst for leadership, confidence, and wellbeing. Youth engage in team-based training, mentorship, resilience-building workshops, and character development — learning skills that translate beyond sports.


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  • Civic Leadership & Advocacy

     The Civic Leadership & Advocacy Program activates AAPI youth as changemakers. Through government education, organizing training, public speaking practice, and hands-on civic work, youth learn how to use their voice to shape their communities and democracy.


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