The CoGenerate Innovation Fellowship: Supporting Leaders of Intergenerational Initiatives

ABSTRACT

This Case Report provides a detailed overview of the CoGenerate Innovation Fellowship, a 9-month fellowship that supports leaders of intergenerational initiatives developed by the national nonprofit organization, CoGenerate. It describes the Fellowship’s recruitment and cohort development strategies, monthly meetings and community-building efforts, end-of-Fellowship celebration, and post-Fellowship support. It summarizes findings from the two-year pilot’s process and outcomes evaluation and provides recommendations to individuals and organizations seeking to support social sector innovators who are leading intergenerational initiatives.

KEYWORDS:

• Multigenerational initiatives
• fellowship model
• cogeneration
• case study
• social innovation

Disclosure statement

C.H. advises CoGenerate on its research and evaluation efforts as a Senior Fellow. E.L.N. and J.O. manage the CoGenerate Innovation Fellowship.

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2023.2220707

Notes

1. An archive of the Fellowship’s website in late 2022, at the time of this manuscript’s writing, can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20220415000000*/https://cogenerate.org/innovation-fellowships/.

2. Permission was granted by these Fellows to include their names in this Case Report.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the RRF Foundation for Aging [Grant number 2020127]