How Uniting Kids, Elders Helps Both
July 18, 2016
It’s a solution for two problems at once: children desperately need mentors to guide them, and isolated seniors yearn for more connection and meaning. To address this, we sharpened our focus last year to solely support intergenerational programming. Why? “The simplest reason is that it works,” says Trent Stamp, our CEO. “We’ve seen the data kind of overwhelmingly assault us over time —working with primarily low-income seniors and primarily low-income kids.”