This week, we introduce our Brabazon Award for Evaluation Research recipients (Alan Lai and Matt Kaplan), Generations United Pioneer Award recipient (Sandy Kraemer) and Generations United Intergenerational Champion Award recipient (Nancy Henkin)! If you're at our conference, remember to tweet at #GensUnited15.

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Professors Matt Kaplan and Alan Lai developed an intergenerational English as a second language (IG-ESL) guidebook and curriculum that enlists older adult volunteers to be instructors in college-based ESL classes. The curriculum was implemented at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, taking advantage of the area's high number of highly educated older adults. Learn more

Sandy Kraemer founded the Intergeneration Foundation 27 years ago. The foundation's most significant accomplishment was in creating Intergeneration Day in 2000. Intergeneration Day is now celebrated in communities across the country as part of Intergeneration Month in September. Learn more

Nancy Henkin is the founder and former executive director of the Intergenerational Center at Temple University. Under her leadership, the center developed a wide range of innovative cross-age programs, from older adult mentoring programs targeting a wide variety of groups including refugees, teen mothers, and oral historians to youth ESL and respite care programs. Learn more 

Cinema Paradiso

"A middle-aged film producer, Salvatore, reviews his life as a child in post-World-War II Italy. He recalls his friendship with an old man, the town projectionist, and this man's influence on his life both as a child and as an adolescent. The old man, Alfredo, was blinded in a fire in the cinema when Salvatore was still a child. Alfredo is a surrogate father to Salvatore, whose father died fighting on the Russian Front. When Salvatore is an adolescent, Alfredo continues to advise him and urges him to escape the confines of the small town and establish his independence. Salvatore receives a final insight into this intergenerational relationship in his middle age." -Robert E. Yahnke

Do you know of any films, books, music and TV shows with an intergenerational theme? Share them with us and we'll share in the weeks and months to come. Disclaimer: Inclusion in this section is not an endorsement from Generations United. Rather, it is a way of showing the multiplying impact when the arts and pop culture are age-advantaged.

Free Bridges Together Intergenerational Program. Thanks to Massachusetts Council On Aging, Bridges Together is providing grants for five communities in Massachusetts to be trained on implementing an award-winning Bridges intergenerational program! Deadline: Rolling. Watch the video on Bridges program curricula. Learn more about the grant's eligibility and requirements.

Generations United encourages you to submit intergenerational projects. If you have - or know of - any intergenerational funding opportunities, please send them to Alan King at [email protected]