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Announcing a new partnership with Campus Compact
We’re excited to announce the launch of Campus Cogenerate, a new initiative developed by CoGenerate and Campus Compact focused on the power generated when older and younger people come together to engage with communities in solving problems, bridging divides, and...
Do Older and Younger People Want to Solve the Nation’s Problems Together?
In these divided and difficult times, we wanted to know what Americans think about cogeneration — a strategy to bring older and younger people together to solve problems and bridge divides. So we commissioned NORC at the University of Chicago to survey a nationally...
Looking for Your Next Chapter?
If you’re interested in finding an encore career, exploring new opportunities for intergenerational collaboration or simply curious about midlife career pivots, this list offers some good ways to get started. Read these books. The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a...
These Organizations Just Won $25K Each to Bring Generations Together in Service
What if older and younger national service members and volunteers had more chances to work together to solve problems and bridge divides? That’s the question our eight Generations Serving Together grantees (below) will answer in the coming year, as they launch,...
Watch This: These 15 Innovators are Bridging Generational Divides to Solve Our Biggest Problems
These 15 Gen2Gen Innovation Fellows are practical visionaries with ambitious initiatives to bridge generational divides. Over the course of the nine-month fellowship, each created a three-minute video that explains how they’re bringing younger and older people...
Exciting News About CoGenerate’s Leadership
It’s my great honor to chair the CoGenerate board and to share this exciting news. Starting today, CoGenerate will shift to a cogenerational leadership model, steered by two CEOs, both of whom you know well — Marc Freedman and Eunice Lin Nichols. Given our increasing...
What Makes an Intergenerational Dance Company Special?
Dance Generators is an intergenerational dance company housed at the University of San Francisco. With participants ranging in age from 17-89 and representing a mix of undergraduate students, elders and professional dancers, Dance Generators works to shatter...
New $25K Grants Available to Bring Generations Together in Service
Now, more than ever, we need new ways to bring older and younger people together to solve problems and bridge divides. National service, which has traditionally been age-segregated, can play a critical role in bringing older and younger corps members and volunteers...
In a World Experiencing Unprecedented Age Diversity, How Should We Think About Age?
We are living in the most age-diverse society in human history. At the turn of the last century, almost half (44 percent) of the United States population was under 20 years old, and only about one in 20 (6 percent) was over age 60. The age distribution of the...