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4 Reasons to Embrace Gen-Mix Volunteerism

VQ Strategies

Simply put, co-generational teamwork will not only strengthen the outcomes of the program in the communities it serves but also foster greater intergenerational respect among volunteers. Program Stability. Of course, designing an age-diverse volunteer program is not without its challenges.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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America's Giving Challenge Official Results: We Came In First! Thank You Everyone!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cambodian Bloggers Want To Support Our Cause. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation Eugene Chan's New Year's Resolution. As Wanna Finishes His Thesis, He Supports The Sharing Foundation from Vietnam with Love. A Youtube Message of Support from Finland. My America's Giving Challenge Dairy. Sina's Story.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Both emphasize museums reaching out into the community to support, understand and experience what the community is already doing. This participatory event led by emerging artists from all backgrounds, engages communities by encouraging a culture of making, doing, creating and collaboration rather than spectatorship.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color. For example, policies like AB22, which is a family cap policy that basically restricts the amount of aid that a family can get after they have one child in the house who is getting welfare support.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

So with millennials, you’re going to see that millennials tend to support organizations that are focused on issues of human international development, child development, and victims of crime and abuse. So wildlife conservation, they’re also interested in arts and culture, humanities and [inaudible 00:27:21].

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