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Volume 10, Issue 38
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September 23, 2015
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Generations United in the News
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Do Something Grand for Grandparents Day and Every Day
Grandparents and other older adults raising children, according to
Donna Butts'
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New Report Highlights the Need for Policies that Help Improve the Financial Lives of Grandfamilies in Lower-Income Communities
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Our oldest and youngest speaker greet each other at our Best Intergenerational Communities Award event last year. |
R.I.P. Robert Simon (1914-2015)
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Photo Highlights from our Intergenerational Action on a Global Scale Conference
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Take a Few Minutes to Help Generations United
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by Fri., Oct. 9. Learn more
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The Journal of Intergenerational Relationships Now Accepting Submissions
The Journal of Intergenerational Relationships - which reaches an international audience of intergenerational scholars, practitioners, and policy makers - is now accepting submissions for their "From the Field" section.
Introduce your programs, activities and projects, which have promoted
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CLC's Fall Fiscal Showdown Webinar
Join the Children's Leadership Council and the Partnership for America's Children for a webinar on Fri., Sept. 25, 4pm-5pm EST. The discussion, What is at Stake for Children and Families, will teach you about the ins-and-outs of the budget and tax proposals currently before Congress and what they mean for children, their families and the communities in which they live. Learn more, then RSVP today! |
Culture United
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we highlight a prequel to Eric Velasquez's biographical picture book,
Grandma's Records. Grandma's Gift
is a
story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional Puerto Rican celebration, Eric and Grandma visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a school project, where he sees a painting by Diego Velasquez and realizes for the first time that he could be an artist when he grows up. Grandma, witnessing his fascination, presents Eric with the perfect Christmas gift - a sketchbook and colored pencils - to use in his first steps toward becoming an artist. A heartwarming story of self-discovery,
Grandma's Gift
is a celebration of the special bond between a grandparent and grandchild.
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. See disclaimer.
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Cool Ideas
Human Services Academy
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A Huge Thanks to Our Members and Supporters
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Think Intergenerational - Funding Opportunities
2016 U.S. School Gardens.
FoodCorps and the School Garden Grant program provides a $2,000 monetary grant to a K-12 school, or a nonprofit working in partnership with a K-12 school, to support a new or existing edible garden on school grounds. Deadline: Oct. 31, 2015. Learn more
If you have - or know of - any intergenerational funding opportunities, please send them to Alan King at [email protected]
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Great Resources
Research
Don't Quit on Me: What Young People who Left School Say about the Power of Relationships. Building on previous studies, this report by
America's Promise Alliance offers new insights about how support from adults and peers can help to close the remaining gaps between those who graduate from high school on time and those who don't.
Learn more
Race/Ethnic Differentials in the Health Consequences of Caring for Grandchildren for Grandparents. Feinian Chen, Christine A. Mair, Luoman Bao, and Yang Claire Yang examine the influence of childcare provision on older adults' health trajectories in the United States with a particular focus on racial/ethnic differentials.
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Events
Conferences
2015 GIA Annual Conference. Grantmakers in Aging. Washington, DC.
October 28-30, 2015.
Learn more
LeadingAge HackFest. LeadingAge. Boston, MA. Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2015. Learn more
LeadingAge Annual Meeting and Expo. LeadingAge. Boston, MA. Nov. 1-4, 2015. Learn more
International Youth Earth Summit. Montessori Model United Nations. New York, NY. Nov. 11-14, 2015. Learn more
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"If you go out in the countryside someplace and build a thousand residential units and have them cheap enough, you'll probably fill the place up. But that's not going to make a community. I think having facilities readily available for people of all kinds, from little kids to the elderly - that's the most important thing of all."
~Robert Simon (R.I.P., 1914-2015), founder of Reston
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