Global Conference Updates - Awards Nominations Due March 7th

Know a person, program, or organization doing outstanding work? Nominate them for a Generations United Award! We're celebrating outstanding leadership and innovation at the 23rd Global Intergenerational Conference. Submit your nomination today! Nominations are due by March 7, 2025, at 11:45 p.m. ET.

The Global Intergenerational Conference will be held June 25-27, 2025 in Louisville, KY! Register Today!

Generations United Featured in GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice, and Policy

Generations United is thrilled to have an article published in the 10-year anniversary issue of GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice, and Policy! This landmark issue celebrates a decade of impactful contributions and collaboration in the field of grandparenting and family caregiving. Read the full article written by Generations United's Ana Beltran and Jaia Lent, and Melinda Perez-Porter from The Brookdale Foundation Group, here. Read the full issue here.

Generations United Featured in the Latest Issue of American Society on Aging's Generations Journal

Generations United's Executive Director Donna Butts and GRAND Voices Support Coordinator Robyn Wind wrote the article, "GRAND Voices—Powerful Advocates for Change," which was featured in the latest issue of American Society on Aging's Generations Journal. This piece highlights the power of intentional, supported engagement with people who have lived experience, showcasing how our GRAND Voices Network has been transforming public policy and service delivery systems across the country for over a decade. Read the article here. The full issue can be accessed here.

Our How to Build Capacity to Attract Funding for Smaller Kinship and Peer-Led Organizations toolkit includes lessons learned from a learning community of the leaders of four organizations. Two of the leaders are kin caregivers and one is an individual who was raised by her kin. These leaders received training, individualized support, and group coaching from Tiffany Allen to increase the internal capacity of their organizations so that they could gain funding and better track their outcomes. We held a webinar on the same topic last week, and a recording of that event is available here.

As always, the Network is accepting individual requests for assistance from professionals who work in systems or organizations that serve kinship/grandfamilies. Fill out the request assistance form to receive support from our team. Learn more and sign up four our monthly newsletter!

SAGEServes

SAGE is the world’s largest organization dedicated to advocacy, services, and innovations for LGBTQ+ elders. SAGEServes, a division of SAGE, creates opportunities to serve the LGBTQ+ community’s older people and support their unique needs. It offers direct services at five SAGE Centers and care management programs in New York City, programs that support LGBTQ+ elders across New York State, and programs designed for LGBTQ+ elders in Southern Florida. Over the past few years at the Center in the Bronx, young people served as paid interns who helped older adults with technology, served meals, and planned events such as Intergenerational Mini-balls, fashion shows, and karaoke programs. Learn more about SAGEServes here.

2025 Training Institutes – Register Today! 

Join nearly 2,000 experts and leaders, including family and youth leaders, from across the U.S., working at the federal, state, and local levels to transform public systems, programs, and services. Choose from an array of workshops and presentations on cutting-edge research, and innovative programs, services, and practices all focused on improving outcomes and building bright futures for children, youth, young adults, and their families. Learn more and register early for a special discount, first come, first serve.

Upcoming Age Friendly Minnesota Webinar

Nature enriches lives at every age, offering benefits to our health and well-being. Learn more on this free, one-hour Age Friendly Minnesota "Bridging Generations: Connecting Through Nature" webinar on Thursday, March 6, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm Central. You will hear from four inspiring programs from across Minnesota that bring young people and older people together in nature and also learn about and the new Age-Friendly Minnesota Nature Resource Center. Register for this webinar here.

"Know Your Rights" Resources Available for Partners and Community Organizations

All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend themselves in many situations, such as when ICE agents go to a home. Presentation materials from the National Immigrantion Project's Community Defender Training, “Understanding Your Rights and Protecting Your Community Under the New Administration,” can be accessed here.

Todas las personas en los Estados Unidos - sin importar su estatus migratorio - tienen derechos y protecciones bajo la constitución del país. Las Tarjetas Rojas del ILRC ayudan a los inmigrantes ejercer esos derechos y protegerse en muchas situaciones, como cuando agentes de inmigración visitan nuestras viviendas. Puede encontrar la presentación de la capacitación para defensores comunitarios del NIPNLG, 'Conocer sus derechos y proteger a su comunidad bajo la nueva administración,' aquí.