Campus Compact and Encore.org are excited to announce the launch of Campus Cogenerate, a new initiative developed by Encore.org and Campus Compact focused on the power generated when older and younger people come together to engage with communities in solving problems, bridging divides, and co-creating a better future—or what we call “cogeneration.”
Many community-engaged campuses already offer lifelong learning programs, provide intergenerational community service experiences, or connect age-diverse populations for mutual learning and exchange. Cogeneration takes this a step further, bringing generations together to solve pressing problems. During a time of growing civic discord, age divides, social isolation, and inequity, intergenerational collaboration on campuses and in the surrounding communities can produce a windfall of social capital along with much-needed generational and cultural understanding.
Learn more about our partnership
In this blog from Campus Compact President Bobbie Laur and Eunice Lin Nichols, Co-CEO at Encore.org, learn more about the importance of cogeneration and how you can get involved.
Over the next six months, Campus Cogenerate will:
Identify, spotlight, and share promising practices related to cogenerational problem solving already happening across campuses and in our communities.
Host a visioning session to facilitate peer learning on how age diversity, social connection, and campus innovation can help bridge divides, solve problems, and co-create thriving, equitable, and just communities.
Support new and expanded opportunities for cogenerational collaboration across the Campus Compact and Encore networks.
