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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.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

For example, it may prioritize organizations with leaders who have lived experience in the communities they work with, organizations of a certain size, or those with the potential to sustain long-term change.

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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.". Time, talent, treasure and ties Yes, ties. They want to be hands on and linked in.

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4 Reasons to Embrace Gen-Mix Volunteerism

VQ Strategies

From lockdowns to mask-wearing to vaccination, COVID-19 has been one of the most polarizing issues of our time. 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. Knowledge spillover”.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

They were too busy working and keeping a roof over our head to have time to deal with their mental and emotional issues,” he said in episode five of the Force Multiplier podcast. Our parents, they were scratching and surviving. Like, they were just trying to make it. So what does healing look like?

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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.

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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'