Plans for our Non Profit

We are thrilled to share we received our official 501(c)(3) status this week 🥳 Thank you to everyone who has supported and cheered us on these last 3 years. This is a big deal and we cannot wait to continue our mission to make pole and aerial more accessible, to build self esteem, and empower artistic expression in a supportive and safe environment 💙 As far as we know, we are the FIRST non profit pole dance studio in the country. Woweee! 🤩

In a lot of ways, our newly minted 501(c)(3) status doesn’t change a whole lot about our day to day, or our core mission. That said, we have a ton of big ideas we want to grow into in the coming months and years. Our status and the benefits of being a non profit will make some of this more possible, now that we have opportunities to apply for grants to support this work.

We are so excited about what is on the horizon!

Here are a few of the dreams we want to develop and grow in the coming months and years. 

• Expand our scholarship fund beyond our current need-based model. We hope to have programs and funds allocated for specific underrepresented groups

• Reinvigorate the Holding Space Program to have more regular events and extend the program to even more groups than we have served so far. 

• Create an Artist’s Studio Program to support artists/industry professionals with discounted studio time to grow and hone their crafts. 

• Sponsor traveling/guest instructors to bring into the studio. This idea is two fold - to support traveling guests (specifically BIPOC artists) and to increase the movement vocabulary coming into the studio. 

• Stand up a Training Reimbursement Program for the Ascendance staff. We want to keep our knowledge current, topical, safe, and ever-expanding. We hope that being able to subsidize some of our team’s outside training, workshops, and classes, we can inject that knowledge back into Ascendance and keep everyone growing!

• Launch a mentorship/coaching program to support others seeking to stand up non profit pole/aerial studios. We’re one of the firsts and we don’t want to be one of the last. 

It’s a big list and we know we have a lot of work ahead of us. We’ll keep you posted with our progress.

Do you have any big ideas or programs you’d like to see Ascendance launch? Tell us about it!

If you’d like to donate to our cause, visit our Fractured Atlas instance to setup a one time or a recurring donation!