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Generational Harmonies
After severe bullying from her high school classmates, violist Isabella Mier was suicidal and losing hope when she discovered the Eisner Intergenerational Orchestra. “Why don’t I just go play for one of my last times?” she asked herself. “And I went, and I just felt...
How Social Connection Drives Economic Opportunity in This Rural Community
In Hemphill, Kentucky, a region once sustained by coal mining, the landscape has dramatically changed. Today, locals face high unemployment, outmigration, and the opioid crisis. Amid these challenges, Mamaw Mentorship, a cogenerational program designed to foster...
Event Recording: A Conversation With Kasley Killam
https://youtu.be/O-7ttRLtp5k Kasley Killam’s new book, The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier puts forward “a groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy.” “Physical and mental...
Event Recording: Music Across Generations — Insights From An Intergenerational Orchestra!
Music can bring generations together for connection and collaboration, inspiration and celebration. Join us as we explore the power of cogeneration by learning more about an intergenerational orchestra, big band, and choir. This hour-long event features the Heart of...
The Best 13 Minutes You’ll Spend This Week
Just after the Oscars, I wrote about The Last Repair Shop, the 2024 Academy Award-winning documentary about four older people who repair the 80,000 free musical instruments used by public school students in Los Angeles. It’s a beautiful film about a vital...
Better Together: The 5 Best Intergenerational Music Documentaries of All Time!
I recently wrote about the Oscar-winning documentary, The Last Repair Shop, which got me thinking about other masterful, intergenerational, music docs. Spanning jazz, classical, country, rock, and blues, my favorites make the case for the universality of music as a...
The Impact of Intergenerational Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCElJjBO8Zo National service in this country is predominantly age-segregated. AmeriCorps largely enrolls young adults, while AmeriCorps Seniors exclusively recruits older ones. As a result, we’re missing big opportunities to pair the...
Event Recording: The 2024 CoGen Innovation Showcase — Advancing Economic Opportunity
The 2024 CoGen Innovation Showcase — our signature event of the year — is your chance to hear from 10 front-line innovators who are bringing older and younger people together to open the doors to a more inclusive, prosperous future. Hear from leaders bringing...
These 10 Innovators Use Cogeneration to Advance Economic Opportunity
Our first group of CoGen Challenge awardees are bringing older and younger people together to boost the economic prospects of substitute teachers, artists with disabilities, people without homes, girls facing hardship in Appalachia, and so much more. To learn more...