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- Stories
2000
- Christie
Vilsack, Iowa's First Lady, promotes literacy through Stories 2000.
The goals of Stories 2000 are to strengthen communities, families, and
children through reading, storytelling, and libraries.
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- First
Lady Vilsack promotes the importance of reading and sharing stories
with children early in life as a means of fostering family identity
and as a means of preparing children to read and hopes to rebuild a
sense of community in Iowa focusing on Iowa's public and school libraries
as community centers for lifelong learning. She also wants to foster
a working relationsihp between school librarians and public librarians
who can promote libraries as forums for intergenerational sharing of
personal stories, family stories and community stories.
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Lady Vilsack' Web Site:
- http://www.christievilsack.org/
- http://www.christievilsack.org/introduction.html
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- Dr.
Jim Gambone
- Dr. Gambone
is a community organizer, media producer and internationally recognized
lecturer and workshop leader. He is principal partner in Points of View
Incorporated, a production and consulting firm dedicated to intergenerational
issues. Dr. Gambone conducted a training workshop on September 20, 2000,
for Iowa State University staff and community leaders and introduced
a model and tool for promoting intergenerational awareness.
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- Points
Of View Incorporated is a family owned independent company dedicated
to bringing the five living generations together with respect, caring,
and cooperation. They provide training, consultation, products, and
motivational speaking on a wide range of issues affecting all generations
living in an aging society.
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- Across
Generations Project
St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minnesota Highlights an award winning
news series and contains stories, opinions, ideas for volunteering and
connections to other resources.
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- Center
for Intergenerational Learning at Temple University
Fosters intergenerational cooperation and exchange through the development
of cross-age programs training and technical assistance and dissemination
of materials on a national level in the USA.
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- Generations
United
A national coalition dedicated to intergenerational programs policies
and issues. Site contains links to legislative issues, foster grandparent
program, service learning, publications and projects.
- CYFERnet
National Children Youth and Families at Risk initiative
Search the site using the word "intergenerational" for a listing
of resources, programs, and information.
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- Intergenerational
e-mail classroom connections
Links 50+ volunteers to intergenerational projects
- Iowa
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