A community nonprofit organization frequently hosted a business development course for new small business owners. The organization partnered with ASCEND to offer a business writing workshop to help the new business owners write a one-page business plan. The workshop exercises provided fun, step by step activities that helped the business owners answer questions about the purpose of their business, their customers, and the products they offered. 

By the end of the workshop, the business owners had completed their one-page business plan, which they used to place on their website, in their marketing material, and use as their business pitch during their business launch. The nonprofit organization later added ASCEND’s business writing workshop into their curriculum as a mandatory session for participants to complete the course. 

A community leader launched a nonprofit organization to serve underprivileged families in his community. He had been in business for several years and was not satisfied with the organization’s performance, desiring to expand and offer more services. The community leader partnered with ASCEND to help capture his ideas from scratch. During the process, ASCEND met the leader, interviewed him, asked questions, and had him to clearly define his desires, purpose, and visualizations for the organization. ASCEND transformed his random thoughts into a formal business document and converted his ambitious ideas into feasible short and long term goals. Within two days, ASCEND emailed the Word file to the community leader for his review.

The next day, the leader enthusiastically contacted ASCEND to inform them that while visiting his local bank, he began conversing with another customer in line. As they engaged, he began informing the gentleman of the non-profit organization’s services to the community. The gentleman was intrigued and asked the community leader if he had information about the non-profit that he could share with him. The leader quickly showed him the Word file ASCEND had sent to him only the day prior. The gentleman requested that he forward the information to him, which he did. The leader was excited to learn that the gentleman was an investor looking to invest in a nonprofit.

From that moment, the community leader used the material written in the business document to apply for multiple grants and received funding to acquire a food truck as well as more refrigerators and freezers to help his nonprofit organization expand its reach.

An economist needed a prototype custom-developed software to present to a subcommittee consisting of representatives from federal financial agencies for approval. The economist partnered with ASCEND to capture his ideas and convert them to a technical document. ASCEND created a technical document and presented it to the software engineers to develop the prototype.

The engineers accurately developed the prototype based on the clear technical directives drafted by ASCEND. The economist was so pleased that he trusted ASCEND to present the proof of concept to the subcommittee on his behalf. ASCEND converted the technical information into a high-level presentation for the subcommittee. After hearing the presentation, the subcommittee unanimously agreed to approve the proof of concept and develop the software.

By the end of the workshop, the business owners had completed their one-page business plan, which they used to place on their website, in their marketing material, and use as their business pitch during their business launch. The nonprofit organization later added ASCEND’s business writing workshop into their curriculum as a mandatory session for participants to complete the course. 

A community nonprofit organization frequently hosted a business development course for new small business owners. The organization partnered with ASCEND to offer a business writing workshop to help the new business owners write a one-page business plan. The workshop exercises provided fun, step by step activities that helped the business owners answer questions about the purpose of their business, their customers, and the products they offered. 

By the end of the workshop, the business owners had completed their one-page business plan, which they used to place on their website, in their marketing material, and use as their business pitch during their business launch. The nonprofit organization later added ASCEND’s business writing workshop into their curriculum as a mandatory session for participants to complete the course.