A unique partnership
The Community Experience Partnership involves 32 community foundations located across the United States. These partners are working to find new ways to engage the rapidly growing population of people over 60 in activities that serve others and improve quality of life.
This initiative is demonstrating timely new ways to respond to the needs of communities—and of one of America’s most vital population groups. Partners are helping redefine traditional perceptions of aging, and creating new pathways for older adults to engage in:
- Lifelong learning and personal development
- Solving social needs through volunteering or employment in the nonprofit or government sectors
Growing experience
Partners are working to tap the vast potential of America’s largest, best educated and healthiest generation ever to move into and beyond its 60s. Their work involves:
- Research into community readiness to engage people over 60 in ways that value their experience, encourage their continued development, and connect their energies, skills and passions with pressing social needs
- Programs that bring community leaders from all sectors together to examine policies and practices, and provide people over 60 with on-ramps to learning, service and work that generate new results in areas of priority community need
- Communications that create new awareness of the contributions of older adults and shift perceptions of their role in society—from retirees on the sidelines to active participants in building the fabric of community
