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Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount todays industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation.
Advia Credit Unions mission is to provide financial advantages. We look to proactively seek the quickest and easiest solutions available for members to maximize the financial value provided to them. Our name means something – we provide advice, we are member advocates, and we offer advantages. We do this via innovative financial solutions. Advia Credit Union became official on January 1, 2014, but our story began long before that. Advia Credit Union is the result of a powerful partnership between two very healthy and thriving credit unions - formerly First Community Federal Credit Union (originated in 1938) and E & A Credit Union (originated in 1935). Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, our 28 full-service branch locations and over 35,000 CO-OP and Alliance One fee-free ATM & Video Teller Machines keep growing. Advia offers easy-access financial solutions to to anyone who resides, works, worships, or attends school within the lower peninsula of Michigan as well as a growing number of counties in Wisconsin (Dane, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Rock, Walworth, and Waukesha) and Illinois (Boone, Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Winnebago). Our credit union is chartered by the state of Michigan. Living to Advia Credit Unions core values has helped to position us within the top 3% of credit unions nationally in terms of financial soundness and asset size. Now serving over 200,000 members with assets over $2 Billion, we are poised to bring even better advantages to our communities and members. Experience the advantage via innovative financial solutions. Advia is an Equal Opportunity Lender. Federally Insured by NCUA. Core Values: Act with Integrity - Drive Progress - Build & Strengthen Relationships - Keep People at the Core
People always ask, what does strategic communications mean? For us, it means finding interesting, smart, and inventive ways to get information to the right people. It means streamlining programs that are cumbersome, messy, and confusing and making them easy to use. It means identifying dated layout and design and creating content that is stunning and engaging. Based in Natick, MA, Strategic Communications, Inc. (StratComm) has served the marketing, communications, training, and project management needs of nationwide Fortune 500 companies, many federal agencies, and all branches of the Armed Forces for over 45 years. Our team works with a variety of clients and delivers an array of services. We create high-quality publications, both print and electronic, and training platforms for leading corporations and organizations such as IBM, VMware, the United States Navy and Air Force, the U.S. Department of State, Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Treasury, and many other important agencies and organizations. We also manage large programs for the federal government utilizing emerging technologies. Two examples are online training and testing programs for U.S. Embassies worldwide and program management for the Social Security Administration. Many high profile clients contract with StratComm to update the design and content of their websites, brochures, annual reports, and web apps. Our team is constantly seeking newer technologies and developing efficiencies to better serve our clients. Within our headquarters, we house a core team of dedicated professionals who administer our programs. Together, we manage varied projects and communications challenges for both large and small clients. Strategically, of course.