Fostering Hope wins $50,000 Gen2Gen Encore Prize

Fostering Hope wins $50,000 Gen2Gen Encore Prize

By | Sep 4, 2018

Young people growing up in foster care face tremendous challenges, but a Colorado nonprofit is proving that older adult volunteers can provide the web of support that kids need to heal and that foster families need to keep going. For its groundbreaking work tapping...
Can You Imagine an Elder Superhero?

Can You Imagine an Elder Superhero?

By | Aug 28, 2018

When two titans — both long-time leaders of the longevity revolution — meet for a cup of coffee, what do they talk about? Over the course of an hour last month, Ken Dychtwald, founder and CEO of Age Wave, interviewed Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of...
If You Mentor Me…

If You Mentor Me…

By | Oct 10, 2017

 Source: MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership   It’s National Mentoring Month — time to celebrate the power of mentoring to change lives. Researchers have found that young people with mentors are: less likely to skip school less likely to start using...

Teaching Every Child to Love Books

By | Sep 19, 2017

New Volunteer Toolkit Helps Adults 50+ Support Early Literacy Development Almost 60 percent of children from low-income families start kindergarten unprepared, lagging behind their peers in critical literacy skills. Research shows that simple, back-and-forth...

Is Opportunity Knocking for Today’s Young People?

By | Dec 13, 2017

Access to opportunity – that’s what our nation stands for, what many of us have fought for, and what a lot of us over 50 want most for the next generation. So how are young people in the U.S. doing on this year’s Opportunity Index, which measures 20 economic,...