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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...
This Encore Fellow Is Helping a Nonprofit Serve 60,000 Children a Year
Helping Mamas provides essential baby items and period products to women and children in need throughout the state of Georgia and in Knoxville, TN. The nonprofit was started in 2014 by Jamie Lackey, a social worker who saw moms use plastic grocery store bags as...
Innovation Fellow Receives Funding To Develop Dementia-Friendly App
Clockwise from top left: Lauren, Rosemarie, Mickey, and Gabby sharing their artwork inspired by Jim Dine’s hearts over Zoom. Opening Minds through Art (OMA) at Scripps Gerontology Center has received a $58,678 grant from NextFifty Initiative, a Colorado-based...
Mentoring, Sondheim Style
The stories are coming out of the woodwork. He sent a short note on his letterhead, he signed the Playbill, he came to a local production, he offered to talk on the phone. Some who have these memories are famous – Lynn Nottage, Lin Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Larson —...
Hey Boomers: Here’s How To Pay It Forward on Climate Change
“Your generation caused this whole mess.” Our daughter’s summary of the climate crisis hit me hard. Of course, it wasn’t the first time I’d heard Boomer blame when it came to climate issues. A few years ago, philosopher and gerontologist Rick Moody summed up the...