We’ve changed our name from Encore.org to CoGenerate! Join us at cogenerate.org to bridge generational divides and co-create the future.

We’ve changed our name from Encore.org to CoGenerate! Join us at cogenerate.org to bridge generational divides and co-create the future.

Got an idea for a problem you want to solve in the world? Consider partnering with someone from another generation as a way to add fresh perspectives and bring on complementary skills. I explored this concept in a piece that was published in the New York Times this Saturday that focused on two such ventures.

The first, Just Shea, is a for-profit business marketing fair trade shea products, with a related nonprofit dedicated to improving working conditions for shea farmers in Ghana. When Danielle Grace Warren started the venture, she was in her late twenties; she picked up steam when she met Wickham Boyle, a sixty-something nonprofit veteran who was pondering her next act. The pair attribute much of Just Shea’s success to their intergenerational partnership.

The other organization, “Housecalls for the Homebound,”? was born when three generations in one family came together to reimagine a model for delivering medical attention to elderly homebound patients. Read the story to learn more about these collaborations.

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