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This FEMA-Sponsored Program Is Strengthening Community Resilience While Building Intergenerational Connection
What is your program called, and how does it work? Be Ready Alliance Coordinating for Emergencies (BRACE) trains volunteers to help in disasters. BRACE serves as the Escambia County Certifying Agency for the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a FEMA-sponsored...
Spark the Change Colorado Brings Generations Together to Fight Food Insecurity and Social Isolation
What is your program called, and how does it work? Listen Learn Act Academy brings together a team of fifth graders and adults aged 55+ to learn about food insecurity and social isolation. They talk to get to know each other, research the issues in their community,...
Cogenerational Social Healing With The On Being Project
Over the last year, CoGenerate and The On Being Project have been partnering on the curation of a digital media collection featuring creative works — music, essays, poetry, video, audio and more — that highlight the value of cogenerational approaches to social...
15 Innovators Solving Problems and Bridging Generational Divides
Our newest Innovation Fellows are fighting for racial and environmental justice, empowering immigrant communities, healing trauma, registering young people to vote, reducing ageism and loneliness, and more. And they’re all using cogeneration — bringing older and...
PBS airs ‘Brief But Spectacular’ segment featuring Co-CEO Marc Freedman
I’m so excited to report that PBS NewsHour featured our founder and Co-CEO Marc Freedman in a segment they call Brief But Spectacular. As you know, we’re living in the most age-diverse time in human history. In just three minutes, Marc gives his “brief but...
Hats Off to AmeriCorps Members Working to Bring Generations Together in Service!
Happy AmeriCorps Week! I’m celebrating with congratulations to all the trailblazing AmeriCorps members bringing older and younger generations together in service. I’m just back from a visit with Raquel Padia and Leah Struck, who work at the Fresno (CA) Economic...
Beyond Passing the Torch
I’m pleased to share a new report, Beyond Passing the Torch: Recommendations on Leveraging Age Diversity to Build a Stronger Democracy Now — a landscape analysis of 25 civic organizations. Its goal: to document and learn from their cross-generational activities and...
What Makes College-Based Intergenerational Programs Successful?
“Generation Z is desperate to change the world we’ve inherited,” an undergraduate said. “When will older leaders get out of the way?” That question prompted N.J. Pierce — an experienced management consultant and Fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative — to...
This College Class is Bringing Generations Together To Reduce Loneliness
Photo caption: Nina Kleinberg (left) and Liya Liang (right). “I think we all experienced some degree of loneliness during the pandemic,” says Liya Liang, a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “But I had no idea that loneliness can have such a...