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Calling all innovators tapping the power of intergenerational connection!
Applications are now open for the 2021-22 Gen2Gen Innovation Fellowship. We’re seeking social innovators of all ages who: run ambitious initiatives to bridge generational divides; work at the intersection of intergenerational connection, collaboration and social...
Watch this: 15 innovative organizations that tap the power of intergenerational connection
The first 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...
This public park was designed to be a multigenerational hub for inclusion. It’s working.
All ages gathered recently at the Sara J. González Memorial Park in Atlanta to honor shooting victims and pledge to #StopAsianHate.
These Minnesota teens joined forces with local AARP members to fight outdated unemployment laws
When Cole Stevens learned that it wasn’t just teenage workers like himself being cut off from receiving unemployment benefits and pandemic unemployment assistance in Minnesota, but also older people who are recipients of social security, the 19-year-old had an aha...
Why invest in connecting the generations?
For those who offer funding and those who seek it, a new paper commissioned by Encore.org and written by business journalist Sarah Murray makes the case for intergenerational solutions. In this blog post, Sarah explains what she uncovered in her research.As a...
Meeting the Multigenerational Moment
An exciting, 13-part essay series from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, in partnership with Encore.org and The Eisner Foundation, starts now. Photo credit: Gracia Lam “Brilliant inventors and good intentions created one age-segregated institution after...
Encore Fellow develops an age-friendly action plan for the City of San José
San José had become an age-friendly city back in 2016, but they needed someone to help them prepare an age-friendly action plan. It seemed like an interesting way to leverage my research and interviewing skills while focusing on older people. I spent 35 years in law,...
“We’re Both There for Companionship”
Lori’s Hands connects college students with mostly older people living with chronic illness, helping ease loneliness for both groups while building bridges across generational, racial and cultural divides.It’s a Sunday night and we’re gathered to prepare and eat...
In the classroom or over Zoom, these tutors created a bond across generations
Charlene Young, a retiree, and Jordan Fong, a recent college graduate, probably wouldn’t have crossed paths if not for a mutual interest in helping kids learn to read. Before the pandemic, Young, 69, and Fong, 33, were Reading Corps tutors in the same elementary...
The Encore Intergenerational Vaccine Corps
Encore.org is mobilizing retired medical professionals — and volunteers of all ages working alongside them — to help vaccinate 300,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area who need it most. We’re working with nine Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that serve...