Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Experience Corps in US News and World Report
Today, the be
nefits of Experience Corps for both older adults and children are highlighted in US News and World Report’s article, Senior-Student Mentoring Can Be Great Win-Win.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Healthy Aging All Summer Long
Each Wednesday morning this summer, Meg Licht, myself and a group of ten other tireless Experience Corps members gather in Franklin Park to partake in some exercise and easy conversation. Along the two mile trek around the park’s public golf course, Read more…
Friday, March 5, 2010
Live to be 100?
Dr. Thomas Perls, Director of The New England Centenarian Study wants to help you get there, healthy & happy. Learn more about his work in this recent Time Magazine article, click here to read it. Dr. Perls will be speaking on March 25th at the Social Innovation Forum’s breakfast: “Healthy Aging: Fostering Vibrant Lifestyles Among Adults 60+.” Generations Incorporated is the 2010 Social Innovator in Healthy Aging.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Experience Corps Highlighted on NBC!
Our Experience Corps program is featured on NBC’s Making a Difference!
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson
Paul and Nancy Thompson are in their late 50′s and have been married for 40 years. They were raised in the same neighborhood of Boston, attended the same schools, and went to the senior prom with each other. They chose to stay in Boston and raised their kids here. Both of them spent their lives teaching in the Boston Public Schools–Paul as a second grade teacher, Nancy as a high school foreign language teacher.
Both newly retired, who would blame them for taking a well deserved vacation, a hiatus away from the world of work? Instead, both will continue to work part time in their new “encore careers”. They had a month off between retirement from the Boston Public Schools and their start date at Generations Incorporated, where they will each be responsible for the oversight of a “cluster” of schools which will host our intergenerational programs.
They are transferring a lifetime of important work to a new sector: helping other older adults, our Experience Corps members, to work as mentors with children. They have immediate credibility…a lifetime of experience in the schools, life-long commitment to Boston youth and Boston communities, and they themselves are of the same generation as the mentors they will oversee.
This is yet another important reminder that, especially in this very challenging economic environment, some of the greatest resources for under-resourced non-profits are at our finger tips. Take a look around and tap into the ever growing population of older adults as they begin to retire. Have fun, have time off, continue to contribute in new and meaningful ways.
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