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These organizations just won $25K each to bring generations together in service
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
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...
Do older and younger people want to solve the nation’s problems together?
In these divided and difficult times, we wanted to know what Americans think about cogeneration — a strategy to bring older and younger people together to solve problems and bridge divides. So we commissioned NORC at the University of Chicago to survey a nationally...
Exciting news about Encore’s leadership
It’s my great honor to chair the Encore.org board and to share this exciting news. Starting today, Encore.org 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? These photos explain in a way words can’t.
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?
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...
New $25K grants available to bring generations together in service. Funds will be awarded to existing AmeriCorps grantees or sponsors.
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...
Big talents add new capacity at Encore.org
We’re excited to introduce you to five new hires. Together, they bring a wealth of ideas, talents and creative energy to our work bringing younger and older changemakers together to solve problems and bridge divides.Carlin Johnson Politzer Inspirational,...
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...