Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Patriots Celebrate Volunteerism: Senior Advocate Week “NBC News Highlights Generations Incorporated”
NBC News Highlights Generations Incorporated
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
The Eisner Foundation Announces Experience Corps as a Finalist for the Inaugural Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence
$100,000 prize, to be awarded in October 2011, recognizes excellence by non-profit organizations in uniting generations to improve communities
LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Today, The Eisner Foundation announced the selection of five finalists for the inaugural $100,000Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence, which recognizes an individual or a non-profit organization for efforts to unite multiple generations – especially seniors and youth – and bring about positive, lasting changes in their communities. The winner of the Eisner Prize will be announced later this year; additionally, The Eisner Foundation will look to replicate the winning program to benefit children and seniors in Los Angeles, where the organization is based.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Thanks to Our Friends at Mass Service Alliance for Making this Editorial Possible
Globe Editorial, Posted March 29, 2011
OF ALL THE cuts House Republicans have sought under the banner of trimming the national deficit, the decision to zero out the Corporation for National & Community Service is the most incongruous. The $1.1 billion agency, which is the largest source of federal money to support volunteerism, epitomizes the bipartisan commitment to national service once described by former President George H.W. Bush as “a thousand points of light.’’
Beyond that, the national service program has become an incubator for initiatives — in areas ranging from housing to urban education — promising a more entrepreneurial, participatory approach to addressing public needs. This kind of innovation should appeal to budget-conscious lawmakers, even if it involves some up-front expense.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Huffington Post Article On the Benefits of Experience Corps “This Holiday Season, Boost Your Brain by Giving of Yourself”
Thea Singer, Posted December 17, 2010
When Emily Lewis moved her mother, who’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, to a nursing facility, her own physical symptoms began.
At night she’d wake with a start, terrified: Her mother’s care cost some $6,000 a month, and the trust her father had left them was dwindling. “I can bluff my way through a lot, but the reality was, how was I going to pay for next month?” she says. Her blood pressure soared — and for the first time in her life she had to take blood-pressure medication.
She began seeing a psychotherapist and turned to her three dogs for comfort. But she also coped bygiving support.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Experience Corps Michel Idiokitas Featured in Newsweek Article “Second Life”
A growing group of organizations is offering new retirees help with figuring out what’s next in life.
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Experience Corps Featured in US News & World Report’s Article “How to Choose the Best Volunteering Option”
October 27, 2010
Though the economy is hurting, volunteering in the United States jumped last year at the fastest rate in six years. At least 63 million gave of their time and energy. “What we’re seeing is the depth of the American spirit and generosity at its best,” says Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that is the nation’s largest grantmaker supporting service and volunteering. Many organizations are responding to the demand by offering more service options, creating leadership positions for volunteers, and providing virtual service opportunities to appeal to baby boomers, retirees, and young people.
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Boston Globe Article Features Our Very Own Experience Corps Member Bill Wolff
“Giving Back” Seeing contributions improve the lives of others: ‘There’s no better feeling’
When Bill Wolff envisioned his retirement, he never imagined helping inner-city children learn to read. He figured he might take up a new hobby, or maybe a part-time job.
But in 2005, as he began to think about retiring, the former marketing executive heard of an opportunity to get involved in his own neighborhood through Experience Corps — a national group that trains retirees as reading coaches in urban schools. Five years later, Wolff, 65, spends around 30 hours per week at the Blackstone Elementary School in Boston’s South End, tutoring students as well as training and coordinating other volunteers.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Boston May Close 6 Schools
Three Hyde Park facilities targeted; Students, parents, staff voice concern.
The Boston Globe October 7, 2010: Boston Superintendent Carol R. Johnson is recommending the closing of six schools, including three high schools at the same address in Hyde Park, that have low academic achievement, under a proposal she is presenting tonight to the School Committee.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Time Spotlights Making Schools Great
Time magazine focused on education in their September 24th edition, releasing an in-depth look at the nation’s struggling schools and the family and community resources we need to help them. Click here to read their focus article, which includes a full list of “What Makes a School Great,” or click here to read the Experience Corps special mention.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Annie E. Casey Cites Experience Corps
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s new report, Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters cites Experience Corps as a program that works. Click here to read the report, or here for the 2010 resource guide. For more information, visit www.aecf.org.
