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Dr. Daniel Porterfield
The Aspen Institute Board of Trustees named Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D., as the organization’s next president and CEO. Dan is president of Franklin...
BlogNovember 30, 2017
Family-Centered Coaching
“The beauty of [family-centered] coaching is that it can be ongoing or a one-time deal depending on the family’s goals and the place that they are...
BlogNovember 30, 2017
The past few months have been a whirlwind of policy proposals and deliberations at the Congressional level. Most recently, the House of Representative...
BlogNovember 21, 2017
Golden, Colorado is a quintessential main street community with boutiques that encourage browsing, yummy wood-fired pizza, and the stunning backdrop o...
BlogNovember 14, 2017
On September 14, 2017, Ascend joined The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, State of Minnesota, City of Saint Paul, the Saint Paul Foundation, and Future S...
BlogSeptember 18, 2017
Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released new data on income and poverty in the United States. The nation’s poverty rate fell to 12.7 percent in 20...
BlogSeptember 13, 2017