News for Advocates of Children, Youth and Older Adults from Generations United |
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ACL Awards National Technical Assistance Center on Grandfamilies and Kinship Families to Generations United |
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Register Now for Sharing Our Spaces: How Intergenerational Shared Sites Maximize Infrastructure Investments and Benefit All Generations |
Join Generations United and The Eisner Foundation on Oct. 14, 2021, at 3 pm ET, for a virtual briefing on intergenerational shared sites. Participants will learn the value and importance of shared sites and how policies can encourage their development and enhancement. Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. |
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A Huge Thanks to Our Members and Supporters |
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Senior Adults for Greater Education (S.A.G.E.™)
S.A.G.E.™ custom-matches community members, aged 55+, with fulfilling volunteer opportunities within their local school districts throughout Bucks County, PA, and transitioned to virtual volunteering this school year. Learn more.
Got something cool you tried that was successful? Why not tweet your cool intergenerational ideas to #cooligideas. You can also post them to our Intergenerational Connections Facebook Group. We want to highlight innovative age-optimized programs and practices through our blog, social media and weekly e-newsletter!
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Gentefied (TV Show/Netflix)
In Los Angeles, three Mexican-American cousins chase the American Dream, even while that dream threatens the things they hold most dear, including their neighborhood, their immigrant grandfather, and the family-owned taco shop. The Morales cousins scramble to save their grandfather's taco shop as gentrification shakes up their neighborhood. 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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Update to Letter of Inquiry Process. RRF Foundation for Aging announces a change to their Letter of Inquiry (LOI) submission deadlines. To provide invited applicants more time to prepare a full proposal, RRF is moving LOI submission deadlines two weeks earlier. Deadlines for full proposals and funding decisions remain unchanged. The next LOI deadline is Nov. 15, 2021. Learn more.
Quality Improvement Project. Opening Minds through Art (OMA) has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Medicaid to expand its program in the state. The grant enables Ohio nursing homes to apply for startup funding to adopt the program. Selected nursing homes will receive $1,500 scholarship for two staff members ($750/person) to attend the OMA Facilitator Training program and $2000 for art supplies. Deadline: ongoing. Learn more.
Grants to Address Social and Economic Injustice. The Fund for a Just Society, a program of the Unitarian Universalist Association, provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The average grant is $8,000 (the maximum grant amount is $20,000) to organizati ons that use community organizing to bring about systemic change leading to a more just society. Deadline: ongoing. 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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Webinar: Taking Care of Yourself During COVID. Date: Oct. 13, 2021. Learn more.
Dear Black Male. Dates: Oct. 26 and Nov. 2, 9, and 16, 2021. Learn more.
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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 (the late Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary historian)
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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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