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"We formed Generations United to argue for a caring society." - Jack Ossofsky, CoFounder                                                                                          Read More....

BACKGROUND
Since our beginning in 1986, Generations United has been the leading intergenerational membership organization in the United States.  Originally created by the National Council on the Aging and the Child Welfare League of America, GU flourished as a collaborative effort.  Soon AARP and the Children’s Defense Fund joined the organization’s leadership and GU quickly grew to become a coalition of more than 100 national organizations seeking a shared, mutually supportive agenda.  Generations United incorporated in 1997 as an independent entity and continues today as the country’s only membership organization promoting intergenerational public policies, programs, and strategies whose membership represents over 70 million Americans.

PAST MAJOR RESULTS

• Convened the first national expert symposiums on grandparents and other relatives raising children (1997); intergenerational shared sites and shared resources (2002); and affordable housing for relatives raising children (2005).
• Held successful international intergenerational conferences in 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005.
• Provided information and testimony to the U.S. Congress, and helped to ensure that the National Family Caregiver Support Act signed into law in 2000 included grandparents and other relatives raising children.
• Founded the National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children in 2001.
• In 2002, developed and released the first intergenerational agenda to eliminate child poverty.
• Promoted inclusion of LEGACY intergenerational housing provisions signed into law as a part of the American Dream Down Payment Bill in December 2003.
• Convened the second national expert symposium on grandfamilies (2005).
• Created in 2000 the www.gu.org website visited by thousands each month.
• In 2004, awarded the Johnson & Johnson/Rosalynn Carter Institute Leadership Award for Excellence in Intergenerational Caregiving.
• Launched the re-designed www.gu.org site in 2005.
• Launched GU's Seniors4Kids, a civic engagment initiative, in 2005.
• Launched www.seniors4kids.org in 2007.
• Launched www.grandfamilies.org in 2008 to help track state legislation impacting grandfamilies.

CARING DEFINED

car·ing [ kârng ]
adj. Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others:
"We formed Generations United to argue for a caring society" (Jack Ossofsky).

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