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Ascendant Strategy Management Group is a professional services firm dedicated to helping associations, foundations, government agencies, and non-profits drive breakthrough results with the Balanced Scorecard. Founded by professionals with over 30 years of direct work experience with Kaplan and Norton, Ascendant is uniquely qualified to help organizations manage strategy.

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From the Ascendant SMG Blog

The Future of Social Enterprise
I first wrote about this topic in a blog post Is Consolidation the Answer - more thoughts. Since I made that post in June, some rather interesting comments have been posted on the Harvard discussion site....

Ascendant is Sponsoring a Leadership Breakfast in Washington
Based on our successful breakfast in Boston, we are pleased to announce that we have begun inviting nonprofit and government leaders in the greater Washington area to attend an executive breakfast on managing performance with...

Does Advocacy Matter?
The majority of charities devote less than 2% of their budgets to advocacy or lobbying. Does it matter? Should Charities take on the mantle of Advocacy as an element of their mission?Most charities have a two pronged missio...



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