News for Advocates of Children, Youth and Older Adults from Generations United |
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Join Our Team During an Unprecedented Time of Growth |
Generations United has openings for seasoned senior managers in communications and grandfamilies. We also have several new positions to help us build the first-ever federally funded technical assistance center to support grandfamilies. If you’ve ever thought about joining the unique Generations United team, this is the time! Learn more. |
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The new issue of GRAND Magazine is out! It includes an article from our Deputy Executive Director Jaia Peterson Lent on grandparenting in the time of COVID-19. It highlights a national survey of families with young children. Learn more. |
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Latino Grandfamilies: Helping Children Thrive Through Connection to Family and Cultural Identity |
Join Generations United on Nov. 18, at 3 PM ET, for the virtual release event of a new resource designed to give resources and tips to child welfare agencies, other government agencies, and nonprofit organizations so that they can better serve all Latino grandfamilies regardless of child welfare involvement. Learn more and register today. |
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A Huge Thanks to Our Members and Supporters |
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Reframing Aging Pre-Conference Workshop |
Join the conversation at the Gerontological Society of America’s Pre-Conference Workshop Applying Reframing Aging Communication Strategies in Your University Program on Nov. 10 at 10 am ET. This event will explore ways to address ageism on university campuses and improve the ways that older people and the aging process are regarded. Learn more and register. |
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Teeniors
Teeniors was created as a startup business in 2015 with the goal of empowering older adultsto understand technology while providing paid, meaningful jobs to youth. In 2017, theycreated a non-profit arm to support coaching for older adults who cannot afford to pay. Learn more. |
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Gather
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river. Learn more.
Culture United highlights films, books, music, and TV shows with an intergenerational theme. Do you have any suggestions? Share them with us, and we'll share in the weeks and months to come. We welcome responses or reactions. We'll possibly feature them on our blog. See disclaimer.
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Think Intergenerational - Funding Opportunities |
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NEW! Public Humanities Projects Program. This initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities supports efforts to bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Deadline: Dec. 8, 2021. Learn more.
NEW! State and National Public Health AmeriCorps Program. Grants are awarded to organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members. The program helps provide needed capacity and support in state and local public health settings and advance more equitable health outcomes for communities that are currently or historically underserved. Deadline: Nov. 8, 2021. Learn more.
NEW! JAMS Foundation/ACR Initiative for Students and Youth. The JAMS Foundation/ACR Initiative for Students and Youth provides grants—ranging from $15,000 to $40,000—for conflict prevention and dispute resolution programs for pre-K-12 students and for adults working with youth populations in ways that directly transfer conflict resolution education (CRE) skills from adults to youth. The focus for 2022 is on utilizing conflict resolution education and training for youth to create opportunities to prevent and manage conflict in the following settings: foster care, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, school and after-school programs, and youth correctional facilities. Deadline: Jan. 14, 2022. Learn more.
Environmental Protection Agency. The Environmental Education Grants Program supports education projects that promote environmental awareness and stewardship and help provide people with the skills to take responsible actions to protect the environment. The Program offers financial support for projects that design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques. Deadline: Dec. 6, 2021. Learn more.
African American Civil Rights Grant Program. This program of the National Park Service documents, interprets, and preserves sites and stories related to the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens. For this initiative, Preservation and History grants are available. These grants are not limited to any specific group and are intended to include the broadest possible interpretation of sites associated with efforts to achieve equal rights. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2021. Learn more.
Fuel for 50 Initiative. Robin Hood will award 50 nonprofits supporting parents and caregivers with $25,000 in unrestricted funding, access to workshops and support, and opportunities for up to $1 million in future funding. Deadline: Nov. 19, 2021. Learn more.
If you have—or know of—any intergenerational funding opportunities, please send them to gu@gu.org.
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Think Intergenerational - Great Resources |
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New Intergenerational Resources. This latest set of free resources, developed by Generations United with support from the RRF Foundation for Aging, aims to strengthen and expand intergenerational programs. The new publications—Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs, Fact Sheet: Intergenerational Programs Benefit Everyone, and Staying Connected While Staying Apart: Intergenerational Programs & the COVID-19 Pandemic—support the growing field of practice by increasing the knowledge and skills of people working to connect and support older adults, children, and youth. Learn more.
Sharing Our Space: A Toolkit for Developing and Enhancing Intergenerational Shared Sites is designed for individuals and organizations interested in creating an intergenerational shared site or enhancing services at their current site. Divided into 10 sections, the toolkit details every step of the development and operation process, from initial planning to sustaining long-term shared site programs. Each section includes effective practices, challenges, tips, examples, and concrete tools gathered from researchers and practitioners from across the field, organized towards the goal of assisting readers in planning and implementing high-quality shared sites. Learn more.
Federal Funding Opportunities for Intergenerational Shared Sites Chart is designed to share some federal funding sources that include—or could include—support for intergenerational shared sites. Learn more.
Generations United's 2020 State of Grandfamilies Report—Facing a Pandemic: Grandfamilies Living Together During COVID-19 and Thriving Beyond. Grandfamily caregivers are the first line of defense for children during the pandemic, having stepped in when parents cannot raise them for many reasons, including cases where children's parents have died from the COVID-19 virus. Download the full report, watch Senator Sherrod Brown's award acceptance speech, and listen to stories of grandfamilies impacted by COVID-19. Learn more.
Staying Healthy Across Generations: Vaccines are Essential for All Ages. Generations United's new infographic illustrates that vaccines aren't just for kids-they protect all generations- especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Staying up to date on vaccines for the flu, pneumonia and whooping cough is important to protect both older adults and children. Check it out.
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"Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils, and we are all teachers."~Gilbert Highet
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We want Generations This Week to be a real resource for you. Please send us any national news on intergenerational issues in addition to upcoming conferences, funding opportunities, reports, and webinars. You can share local and state events in our Facebook group. Please also let us know how we can improve! Email us at gu@gu.org. We'd love to hear from you!
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