Grants

Recent Grants

One-year program support to provide direct legal services for 400 seniors and the 700 children in their care as well as training with self-advocacy and informational tools.

Program support for "The Butterfly Effect," an intergenerational theater program for school-aged children and adults with disabilities.

Two-year program support for the Kinship Care Project that provides essential free legal services to older adults caring for their grandchildren, and other multigenerational family support.

Two-year general operating support to deliver critical on-site and virtual programming to youth and their families in the Los Angeles Harbor communities.

One-year program support for the Intergenerational Community Arts Council bringing together residents from their early 20’s to late 60’s to create and curate art and cultural events.

One-year program support to develop a 10-week intergenerational debate program that brings together older adults and teens to learn the art of debating and foster an atmosphere of lively conversation between the two groups.

Three-year research support to identify fundamental pathways to cure pulmonary fibrosis and thereby enabling older adults to live longer, healthier lives.

Two-year general operating support to launch a new chapter focused on the idea of cogeneration – bringing older and younger people together to solve problems, bridge divides, and co-create a better future for all.

One-year program support to launch Music Across Generations, an initiative to elevate the power of music to bring generations together, catalyze creative opportunities for older and younger people, and celebrate these connections as a vehicle for advancing intergenerational collaboration.

One-year program support to provide weekly in-person and virtual live music concerts to isolated seniors by young musicians throughout New York City.

One-year program support to expand their GENuine Connections program, a virtual online community that benefits older adults and teens throughout the boroughs of New York City.

Three-year capital support to relocate their current Panorama City site to a larger facility, and expand their Lynwood Health Center in South Los Angeles to increase access to equitable health services for local residents.

One-year general operating support to continue a broad span of activities that unite generations, including tutoring and mentoring, career exploration, financial literacy, and more in Pacoima, Watts, and South Los Angeles.

One-year general operating support to further develop the incorporation of intergenerational support and mentoring into the comprehensive, trauma-informed programs and parenting education opportunities Elizabeth House provides to hundreds of women and their children.

Two-year program support to EngAGE to create learning and mentoring opportunities for children and low-income seniors through intergenerational arts education and collaborations between affordable senior housing residents and schools in Southern California.

Program support to maintain their intergenerational mentoring program bringing together youth with developmental disabilities and older mentors.

Two-year program support to set up and reinforce the development of new and existing intergenerational shared sites across the country.

Two-year capacity building support to provide athletics, after-school educational enrichment and community for low-income youth in Orange County.

One-year program support to improve the livelihood of New York City’s most vulnerable intergenerational families with necessary resources.

One-year program support to improve the livelihood of multigenerational families in LA with essential caregiver goods, microgrants and capacity building for social service providers.

One-year general operating support to strengthen the infrastructure to serve a low-income multigenerational population in Lower Eat Side and Chinatown in Manhattan.

One-year general operating support to provide a comprehensive continuum of care for individuals with low incomes and/or experiencing homelessness and provide intergenerational health and educational interventions.

Three-year program support to create and name three Eisner Intergenerational Music Programs including the Eisner Intergenerational Orchestra and new Choir and Big Band ensembles – all of which will connect older and younger musicians of diverse backgrounds.

One-year program support to build an older volunteer community, including Holocaust survivors, to share their knowledge with younger participants in educational and public programs.

Two-year general operating support to increase outreach and retention of senior volunteers to serve domestic violence survivors.

Two-year general operating support to support continued growth of intergenerational initiatives, including the Koreatown Storytelling Program, volunteer and staff recruitment strategies, and new programs designed to engage more of community’s older adults.

Two-year general operating support to strengthen intergenerational volunteer programming by recruiting and training 2,000 Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) volunteers to become effective project leaders.

Two-year program support for the Center’s Generations Elevated Employment Training Initiative that brings seniors and youth together to develop hard and soft job skills, preparing them to secure employment in food services and hospitality industries.

One-year program support for Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), which provides children in South LA, East LA, the Rampart District, and MacArthur Park/Westlake with music instruction, mentorship and connection with LA Phil musicians.

One-year program support for the YOLA Camp at Idyllwild Arts to offer young musicians opportunities for musical collaboration and growth with more experienced musicians.

Two-year general operating support to prepare teachers, counselors, administrators, and other professionals to serve the diverse educational needs of today’s youth.

One-year program support to bring New York City elders and young people together by creating spaces for intergenerational dialogue and collaboration through the art of storytelling, theatre performance, and playwriting.

One-year general operating support to maintain a social worker to recruit, retain, evaluate, and oversee all intergenerational programming at NYU CHAI.

One-year general operating support for its adult day center and daycare services, the continued intergenerational activities that bring the two groups together, and comprehensive services for relative caregivers in West San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area.

One-year general operating support to enhance and expand their College Access and Success Programs, the majority of whose volunteer mentors are older, to serve high school students in Long Beach.

One-year general operating support to expand their digital arts education resources for an intergenerational audience and continue their partnership with the Foster Grandparents program.

One-year program support to serve low-income children and their relative caregivers over 60 who wish to become adoptive parents.

One-year general operating support to improve recruitment, training, and support of senior volunteers to provide tutoring to low-income students across New York City.

One-year general operating support to strengthen its hybrid senior volunteer base to meet the demand for literacy intervention that mitigates student learning loss due to Covid-19.

One-year program support to pilot a new Intergenerational Advisory Council composed of teens and older adults who will develop enrichment activities to empower and connect generations within the northwest Bronx.

One-year general operating support to bridge the intergenerational gap between youth and older adults in South Asian immigrant communities in Southern California.

One-year program support to launch an intergenerational initiative combining staff training, partnership strengthening, new programming, and civic engagement opportunities to benefit LGBTQ+ New Yorkers.

One-year general operating support to bring students and seniors together through programs that encourage participants to share their unique lives through authentic one-on-one conversation and storytelling.

Two-year general operating support to provide one-on-one tutoring by matching volunteers, particularly older volunteers, with 1,800 homeless students annually.

One-year program support to address social isolation among homebound older adults with the Talking Tech program, which leverages trained youth volunteers to give older adults the tech skills to virtually connect with families, friends and medical providers.

Two-year program support for the Nourishing Neighbors program, which ensures access to organic, locally-grown food as well as educational intergenerational programming.

One-year program support to provide Intergenerational Story Share Workshops where older and younger adults who identify with LGBTQ+ communities share their experiences with each other, connecting two isolated generations.

Three-year project support towards Dr. P.K. Shah’s novel therapies to manage atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

One-year program support to expand their mentorship program "Passing the Torch," which engages older mentors in high school film and television programs in underrepresented communities, expanding future professional opportunities for students in the industry.

One-year program support to expand intergenerational theater programming through their Public Works program.

One-year project support to expand intergenerational programs, including a gardening project connecting middle school students with autism with elders, and engaging The Y’s Pre-K students in creating cultural art with residents of Wien house, a home for low-income older adults.

One-year general operating support to bring high-quality arts education resources to Los Angeles County's lowest-performing elementary and middle schools.

Two-year program support to enhance, expand, and evaluate the Companion Care Program which pairs college student volunteers with hospitalized older patients at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Three-year program support to place older volunteers in classrooms at three South LA elementary schools, promoting health and wellness for older adults while improving academic and behavioral outcomes for students.

One-year program support to sustain intergenerational community centers at various sites operated by four New York City-based settlement houses with coaching and learning resources provided by UNH.

One-year program support for the Reading Legends in the Community program, which leverages retired older adults to help elementary school students with their reading skills.

One-year capacity building support to train older blind people in using technology that would qualify them for advanced training to enter the workforce or become volunteers to connect to blind/sighted youth.

One-year program support to continue developing the Therapeutic Walking Program that helps seniors and youth volunteers gain interdependent learning and understanding of one another in Lower Manhattan.