article thumbnail

New InterGen Lab promises to address labour supply issues with innovative solutions to support an ageing workforce

Charity Village

Amidst Canada’s ageing population, increasingly tight labour markets from coast to coast to coast, and a changing world of work, employers, workers, and job seekers require urgent and evidence-based solutions. Challenge Factory and the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) announced a new collaboration: The Intergenerational (InterGen) Lab.

article thumbnail

NextGen philanthropists and the transfer of intergenerational wealth

ASU Lodestar Center

In the coming decades, over 40 trillion dollars will change hands. They are not only willing but enthusiastic about ways of creating change on today’s fast paced and evolving world.". As part of a. continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

When we become a generation of people who really go out there and seek healing, I think we’ll see such a change in our communities, because I think there’s so many different things that can be directly attributed to unresolved trauma,” he said.

article thumbnail

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. That’s a great place to start. To learn more about this topic, read the chapter by Phyllis N.

article thumbnail

Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers. Only us Khmer can bring forth the change needed in Cambodia. He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge. He quickly found me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and my blog. Not the Sharing Foundation's web site ).

article thumbnail

Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

Museum 2.0

Simon knew something had to change. “We She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

article thumbnail

The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

You know those research studies that make you want to immediately change your practice in some way? This qualitative, exploratory study involved tracking and interviewing 32 Spanish-speaking intergenerational groups in fully bilingual exhibits at four different science centers/museums. comfort design exhibition guestpost research'