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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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 reality


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ASCEND BEYOND EMPOWERS AAPI YOUTH TO INNOVATE THROUGH CREATIVITY, CULTURE, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

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Hands-on learning

Startup labs, financial literacy, design thinking, coaching, and AAPI founder mentorship

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Career pathways

Tech, social enterprise, small business, and emerging industries

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Build belief

Entrepreneurship as identity, resilience, storytelling, and possibility

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COMPONENTS

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Startup & business model workshops


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Pitch coaching

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Innovation labs


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Financial literacy & budgeting


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Mentorship from AAPI founders


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Career exposure in emerging industries

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OUTCOME

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 AAPI youth ready to build ventures rooted in identity, creativity, and possibility.


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OUR IMPACT

Confidence to launch

creative ventures

Practical financial knowledge

A community of entrepreneurial support

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Hands-on business skills

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WHO D0 WE SERVE?

AAPI teens and young adults with entrepreneurial interest.

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THE NEED

AAPI youth often lack access to mentors, networks, and culturally relevant entrepreneurship training.

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EMPOWER THE NEXT BIG IDEA

You’re helping young people build the next big idea — and build generational wealth.

Your support fuels a pipeline of AAPI innovators, creators, and future business leaders.
Every dollar helps provide youth with startup training, mentorship, and financial literacy education.


3% Cover the Fee

“Move with purpose. Lead with heart.”

- Ascend Beyond

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“Beyond today. For the future”
— ASCEND BEYOND
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