Reach Out to Connect Generations!

The highly successful annual Intergeneration Day worldwide, started in the year 2000, is expanding to a month to allow more time to schedule intergeneration events. Intergeneration Month is celebrated every October.

Join in planning an event to intentionally connect generations this October, and every October. Send us your plan, and we'll list it online! email us

Intergeneration Month Packets: Watch for our announcement for packet availability, for your IG events.

FLASH: The 2011 Intergeneration Storytelling Contest Is A STUNNING SUCCESS!
The Intergeneration 2011 Storytelling Contest was an enormous success. Intergeneration Foundation would like to thank all of the storytellers who provided amazingly wonderful intergenerational tales. To see the storytelling winners and read stories, visit our contest page.

FLASH: American Library Association Endorses Intergeneration Day - The American Library Association (ALA) passed a Resolution promoting Intergeneration Celebration. The ALA endorsement cited Intergeneration Day as a factor in emphasizing that creating age-integrated community leads to a healthy community where strengths of one generation meet the needs of another. More than thirty other library associations have joined the celebration.

FLASH: American Association of Museums Endorses Intergeneration Day! The American Association of Museums, with 21,000 individual and institutional members, issued a ringing endorsement of Intergeneration Celebration. Ford W. Bell, AAM President, issued the endorsement, proclaiming Intergeneration Day/Week has done “yeoman work in bridging a nagging rent in our social fabric… the segregation of generations.” Museums play a vital role in bringing together generations. For more about American Association of Museums, go to www.aam-us.org.

42 States Have Now Proclaimed the Celebration!

Contact Cydney Campbell, ExecutiveDirector with pictures and stories of your intergeneration celebrations, large or small. We'd love to post them on our website!

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