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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...
Big Idea Winner: Humans of VUU: Conversations Across Generations
At Virginia Union University (VUU), an HBCU founded in 1865 to educate formerly enslaved people, Dr. Hollee Freeman had a powerful observation: The university is full of untapped knowledge. That knowledge, she feels, doesn’t come in the form of lectures or textbooks...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Hope Chicago
Aaron Kuecker thinks the economics of higher education are broken. As CEO of Hope Chicago, he's on a mission to fix that. Founded in 2022, the nonprofit sends two generations — a student and a parent, guardian or grandparent — to college at the same time, offering...
BIG IDEA WINNER: The Cogeneration Lab at Bennington College
What would it look like to design a truly co-generational campus from the ground up? Laura Walker is determined to find out. After five and a half years as president of Bennington College, Walker stepped down to focus primarily on a single goal: determine how to...
BIG IDEA WINNER: Art Speaks at Penn State
Adult education programs and near-campus retirement communities often bring older adults to campuses full of 18- to 22-year-old students, but the two groups rarely get the chance to talk, share opinions, or learn from one another. An intergenerational duo is out to...
Overheard on Text: The Sandwich Generation Gets the Robots
As colleagues from different generations (x and millennial), Marci Alboher and Duncan Magidson have been leading talks and workshops sharing their insights about working across generations. As they plan, they usually text furiously, sharing ideas and reflections. In...
Event Recording: Designing Age-Friendly Communities That Connect Generations
Problems like social isolation, the youth mental health epidemic and the caregiving crisis can look like separate emergencies, but they share at least one root cause: communities built to keep generations apart. Join CoGenerate Senior Research Fellow and associate...
Event Recording: Teen Leaders Speak Up About Intergenerational Collaboration
If you work with teens, or want to, this session is for you. If you are a teen who works with older people, or wants to, this session is for you, too. CoGenerate’s newest report, What Teens Want — And Don’t Want — From Older Allies, is based on conversations with 26...
2025: A Year in Review
Together, we’ve taken big strides this year toward our goal of making cogeneration credible, doable, and scalable. As this year ends, will you make a donation to support our urgent, bridge-building work? ...