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Generations Over Dinner: How many generations can you bring to the table?

Generations Over Dinner: How many generations can you bring to the table?

By Michael Hebb | Oct 5, 2022

Last week, I sat at a dinner table with an 82-year-old motorcycle-riding Texan and a 17-year-old prodigy in astrophysics who had never met before. I watched as the elder’s eyes grew wide when the teenager spoke passionately about Einstein’s theory of relativity. The...
Announcing a new partnership with Campus Compact

Announcing a new partnership with Campus Compact

By Eunice Lin Nichols, co-CEO at Encore.org, and Bobbie Laur, president at Campus Compact | Sep 20, 2022

“We believe college campuses are fertile ground for advancing cogeneration.” We’re excited to announce the launch of Campus Cogenerate, a new initiative developed by Encore.org and Campus Compact focused on the power generated when older and younger people come...
These organizations just won $25K each to bring generations together in service

These organizations just won $25K each to bring generations together in service

By Stefanie Weiss | Jul 25, 2022

What if older and younger national service members and volunteers had more chances to work together to solve problems and bridge divides? That’s the question our eight Generations Serving Together grantees (below) will answer in the coming year, as they launch,...
Watch this: These 15 innovators are bridging generational divides to solve our biggest problems

Watch this: These 15 innovators are bridging generational divides to solve our biggest problems

By Janet Oh | Jun 28, 2022

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...
What makes an intergenerational dance company special? These photos explain in a way words can’t.

What makes an intergenerational dance company special? These photos explain in a way words can’t.

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Apr 18, 2022

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...
Can a look at the history of nonviolent resistance offer hope in Ukraine?

Can a look at the history of nonviolent resistance offer hope in Ukraine?

By Kevin Rabinovich | Mar 22, 2022

A few years after the fall of the Soviet Union, my family immigrated from Ukraine to the US, and I was born soon thereafter. As a result, much of my knowledge about my family’s homeland is secondhand. I grew up speaking Russian, the language of the USSR, with help...
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