[1] ASAP is currently engaged in a range of efforts aimed at leveraging the resources of academia toward poverty alleviation around the world.

Like the former, it does so by moral and political argument, using the distinctive skills of academics.”[3] ASAP's mission is to help scholars, teachers, and students enhance their impact on poverty.

The one-on-one partnership takes place over the course of one year and involves both parties engaging in regular contact and continual progress assessments on the achievement of pre-agreed upon mutual goals.

Prominent participants who have been part of the program include: Jayati Ghosh, Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, Adam Chmielewski, Clemens Sedmak, Alberto Cimadamore, Ernest Marie-Mbonda, Bina Agarwal, Marcos Nobre, Barbara Harriss-White, Shalini Randeria, Else Øyen, Gerry Mackie, Thomas Pogge, João Feres Júnior, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Sonia Bhalotra, David Hulme.

ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award 2023: Else Øyen 2022: Henry Shue ASAP Book of the Year Award (Monograph) 2023: Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio, Eric Marlier for The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage (Policy Press) 2022: Darrel Moellendorf for Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty (Oxford University Press) ASAP Book of the Year Award (Edited Book) 2023: Clemens Sedmak, Gottfried Schweiger for Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty (Routledge) 2022: Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Anna Tarrant and Rosalie Warnock for COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic (Policy Press) ASAP has secured funding from numerous sources, such as the British Council, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) of the International Social Science Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

[2] A special issue of the Carnegie Council's Ethics & International Affairs focuses on ASAP's potential, and the contribution academics in general might make toward poverty alleviation.

[13] In his article in the special issue, Martin Kirk, global campaigns director for The Rules, argues that the network has the potential to influence NGOs to adopt more effective and less paternalistic approaches to development and improve their engagement with the communities they serve.

[14] “A critical barrier to change within NGOs is the fact that existing approaches are locked into a single paradigm for what counts as required knowledge for communications and campaigns in their home markets.

Roger Riddell (Oxford Policy Management) notes the contributions academics can and have made, and he urges those in groups such as ASAP to be aware of past efforts and their failures as well as successes.