Intergenerational Happenings in Pennsylvania
Summer 2025
Issue No. 6
Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue of the PIN Newsletter! This quarterly publication connects you with intergenerational resources, news, educators, and practitioners across the Commonwealth. The newsletter has three sections: Take Action and Get Involved, Program Spotlights, and Intergenerational Resources.
Take Action and Get Involved
Conference on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - October 24th, 2025 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
You're invited to the 19th annual conference for grandparents raising grandchildren. This event takes place on October 24th, 2025 at the Woodlands Inn in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Registration is free for grandparents raising grandchildren, and $35 for professional social service personnel and others. Your admission includes snacks and a hot lunch!
To register, please call or email: 570-822-1158, ext. 2386 or micahel.bobrowski@luzerncounty.org. Visit GRCnepa.org for more information or contact Howard J. Grossman at 570-262-3443,
Intergenerational Community Design Competition
The Intergenerational Community Design Competition is being held in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial Mid-Atlantic Conference, hosted by the Stockton Center on Successful Aging at Stockton University, Atlantic City, New Jersey from June 3-5, 2026.
The event is being held in collaboration with the Hamer Center for Community Design, Stuckeman School, and the Penn State Intergenerational Program, along with a planning committee of regional, national, and international partners.
A pre-conference event will be held to recognize all the competition submissions.
Learn about the conference: https://www.stockton.edu/aging/conferences.html
Join Age Friendly's McKeesport Block Party on August 16th at the People's Building!
Picture a neighborhood where generations don’t just coexist, but connect! Join our free neighborhood block party featuring live music, food and outdoor summer fun for all ages. Drop by from 1pm-4pm to enjoy entertainment by the Val Vazquez Jazz Group and refreshments by McKeesport’s own, We Understand the Assignment Catering. Connect with neighbors over giant McKeesport-themed coloring pages, enter to win a prize at our raffle and share your own story at our intergenerational storytelling station! Plus, stroll past the first-floor windows of the People’s Building to experience a new large-scale photo installation spotlighting longtime members of the McKeesport community. Brief remarks from local leaders will start at 2pm. Bring a neighbor!
Registration is not required, but is greatly appreciated! bit.ly/PictureThisMcKeesport
Can’t make it? Join us in Sharpsburg on Saturday, August 23 during their Summer Sizzler, and save the date for our Beechview Block Party on September 13!
Program Spotlights
Eisner Foundation Highlights Success at Generations United's Global Intergenerational Conference Held in Louisville, Kentucky Last Month
Hundreds of intergenerational practitioners, advocates, and supporters gathered for the biannual Generations United Global Conference. During the whirlwind three-day conference, attendees had the opportunity to connect and learn about how intergenerational programs across the country and world are creatively and meaningfully bringing people together across age.
Co-Generate Continues to Release Outstanding Qualitative Studies
In 2023, Co-Generate released a report on their qualitative study titled "What Young Leaders Want and Don't Want From Older Allies" highlighting individual interviews with 31 young leaders from 12 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, ranging in age from 18 to 31. The young leaders shared an impatience to making the world a better place, with many having begun their professional work in high school, driven by a frustration with societal problems and a desire to find a like-minded community.
As a follow-up, Co-Generate recently released a similar study titled "What Older Leaders Want and Don't Want From Younger Allies" which asked 30 older leaders - all committed to working across generations for change - want from younger allies. The older leaders, all over 50, are a mix of nonprofit and business leaders, activists, social entrepreneurs and authors. All have transformative relationships with younger people they connected deeply with both personally and professionally.
Read The Report: https://cogenerate.org/older-leaders/
Agriculture Magazines Features Intergenerational Connections, PIN
From Spain to Pennsylvania, Japan to New York, agricultural work powerfully produces intergenerational connection. Read this write-up by Dr. Matt Kaplan featured in CSA News and Crops & Soils.
Our favorite excerpt?: "What transforms a space into a place of meaning and connection? Increasingly, the answer lies in the relationships that span across generations. In agriculture, where ties between people and land run deep, these connections enrich family life, strengthen community, and support long-term farmland stewardship."
Intergenerational Resources - Quick Links
From Key International Organizations:
Help Age - Bringing Generations Together For Change
World Health Organization - Connecting generations: planning and implementing interventions for intergenerational contact
Co-Generate - Beyond Passing the Torch: Recommendations on Leveraging Age Diversity to Build a Stronger Democracy Now (2022)
Co-Generate - Cogeneration: Is America Ready to Unleash a Multigenerational Force for Good? (2022)
From The Surgeon General:
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
From Generations United:
Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs
Updated Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit
Sharing Our Space: A Toolkit for Developing and Enhancing Intergenerational Shared Sites
Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies' Mental Health and Wellness
From United Neighborhood House
Generations Connect: Intergenerational Hub
From Penn State University:
Video highlights from the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Intergenerational Conference held in Lancaster, PA
Intergenerational Activities Sourcebook and More
New Endowment for the Penn State Intergenerational Program
We have received some inquiries about whether it is possible to make philanthropic gifts to support the Penn State Intergenerational Program.
The program has an endowment in place to which funds can be contributed specifically for the program. Gifts to the endowment are tax-deductible and support initiatives such as the Pennsylvania Intergenerational Network (PIN), Intergenerational Think Tank monthly meetings, student internships, biannual conferences, and the program’s capacity to advise and support practitioners engaged in intergenerational work.
Options for making a gift to the endowment are provided online, at: http://raise.psu.edu/intergenerationalprogram
The Pennsylvania Intergenerational Network (PIN) aims to promote and expand intergenerational work across the state. PIN members receive this quarterly newsletter, invitations to our monthly Intergenerational Think Tank meetings, and more. For more information about PIN, click here: https://aese.psu.edu/outreach/intergenerational/pennsylvania-intergenerational-network/overview