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Putting Two Things Together
On Friday, May 15, I had the great honor to address the 2026 graduates of Drew University, including the undergraduate College of Liberal Arts, the Theological School, and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. I'm very grateful to Drew's remarkable President...
Introducing the CoGen Voices Fellows
Across the country, young people and older people are stepping up as civic leaders. But too often, they do this critical work with peers, in age-segregated spaces. Young people work without the benefit of older generations who bring lived experience, networks, and a...
Event Recording: Age Diversifying Your Board
Is your organization ready to tackle one of the toughest but most transformative shifts in intergenerational collaboration? In this session, you’ll hear from three leaders spearheading efforts to diversify board involvement. This will be a learning-in-public...
7 Tips for Age-Diversifying Nonprofit Boards
Building a board that spans generations is one of the toughest—but most transformative—shifts in intergenerational collaboration. The practices below are drawn from leaders actively doing this work in real time. 1. Being the Only is Lonely Avoid bringing on a single...
Event Recording: The Multigenerational Campus: Six Big Ideas Changing Higher Ed
What if we… Turned unused campus space into hubs for intergenerational innovation? Sent two generations in one family to college at the same time, debt-free? Redefined who holds knowledge and how it is shared? Moved classrooms into communities? Leveraged the arts to...
Taking Cogenerational Co-Leadership to the Next Level
We’re taking cogenerational co-leadership to the next level. Meet the new co-chairs of our board of directors: David Hsu and Raymond A. Jetson. Both have served on the board for years. We are so grateful to outgoing Board Chair Susan Gianinno, who led our transition...
What If Higher Education Worked for All Ages?
Today CoGenerate and the Stanford Center on Longevity announce six visionary ideas that promise to transform campuses into thriving centers for intergenerational collaboration and learning, while fostering economic opportunity, lifelong learning, and institutional...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Community Learning Labs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Marius Boboc thinks that if higher education institutions truly want to serve their community, they must think beyond the four walls of a lecture hall – and move into neighborhoods where people actually live and work. As Dean of the College of Education at the...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Live Together, Inc.
When the interim president of Frostburg State University in Western Maryland asked Jane Rohde to tour an empty residence hall in 2023, he posed a question facing many rural campuses across the country: “What do I do? Do I tear it down? Refurbish it?” Rohde – founder...