Connections | June 2019
Lori Marks, PHD
Founder and Director of Link Generations
Connections | June 2019
- June 12, 2019
- , 8:17 am
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Annual Picnic Knocks it Out of the Park
Link Generations knocked it out of the park June 6 at opening dayof the Bethesda Big Train’s season, when the home team literally knocked one out of the park for a homerun and 8-0 win. Link Generations volunteers were winners, too. More than 60 Link Generations supporters came to the event, including middle and high school volunteers and older adults from the community. It was a multi-generational event with picnickers ranging in age from 10 months to 90 years.
Link Generations was showcased at the game as one of Montgomery County’s nonprofits. See us throwing out the first pitch in the picture below. Thank you to all who donated to Link Generations and supported this important mission to connect youth and older adults in the community. We are excited to start our third summer of programming Tuesdays and Thursdays at Ingleside at King Farm and Wednesdays at Charles E. Smith Communities. Contact for more information.
Link Generations was recognized internationally in 2021 by UpSocial Canada, a nonprofit organization that began ten years ago in Barcelona, Spain to address social challenges in communities. UpSocial Canada launched the Caring Community Challenge for Toronto’s Bathurst and Finch Neighborhoods, focusing on models that “bolster feelings of belonging and social inclusion.” They identified more than 90 programs worldwide as models that have fostered greater inclusion across cultures and generations. They narrowed down the 90 programs to 24 feasible models for the Toronto community to review and further narrowed their search to 14 case studies. From those case studies, three innovative approaches were selected to pilot within the Bathurst and Finch Neighborhoods. Link Generations was selected to be one of those three programs.
We piloted the Link Generations program via zoom in the Toronto community in November 2021 and February 2022. You can read more about the program here.