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Serena Bian and Ernest Gonzales Join CoGenerate’s Board
Last year, Serena Bian and Ernest Gonzales became Encore Public Voices Fellows, a group of more than 60 activists and experts working with Encore.org and The OpEd Project to shape public conversation at the intersection of aging, longevity, intergenerational...
Explore These 10 Simple Ways to Cogenerate
On October 12, Encore.org is changing its name to CoGenerate and doubling down on a strategy for social impact we call cogeneration — where older and younger generations work together to solve our nation’s most pressing problems. If you’re involved or interested in...
Generations Over Dinner
Last week, I sat at a dinner table with an 82-year-old motorcycle-riding Texan and a 17-year-old prodigy in astrophysics who had never met before. I watched as the elder’s eyes grew wide when the teenager spoke passionately about Einstein’s theory of relativity. The...
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...