Center for Civic Partnerships

Healthy Aging

Community Involvement

All Age Well
A Boulder County, Colorado example of designing a project in service to the community, and they have opportunities for meaningful work. Family, neighbors, and friends maintain meaningful connections with one another, and older adults have opportunities to give and receive practical and social support.

Center for Creative Retirement
Established in 1988 as an integral part of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, Center has the threefold purpose of promoting lifelong learning, leadership, and community service opportunities for retirement-aged individuals, and collaborates with organizations in North Carolina and across the country.

Civic Engagement and Service Learning
This site is intended to introduce faculty, teachers, students, researchers, clinicians, and community partners to the connections between psychological work, the teaching of service-learning, and issues of civic engagement.

Elders Share the Arts
A model for an intergenerational program designed to promote community involvement and mentoring activities for older adults and youth.

National Academy on an Aging Society
Provides unbiased research and analysis focused on public policy issues arising from the aging of America's and the world's population with the goal of enhancing the quality of debates about the challenges and opportunities of an aging population by presenting findings from the policy and academic communities in language aimed at the general reader.

National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
A web site resource that lists of links, books, and journal articles on intergenerational shared use of public school facilities and college and university campuses by senior citizens and students (e.g., schools as centers of community).

National Park Service
A Civic Engagement initiative that establishes a foundation and framework for developing plans and programs for parks, and works toward a sustained, dynamic interaction between NPS employees, partners and citizens.

National Retired Teacher’s Association (NRTA) - AARP
AARP's Educator Community is the nation's largest organization serving the interests and needs of working and retired educators age 50 years and over, and sponsors a nationwide network of state and local Retired Education Associations (REAs), and over one million members. NRTA members include education professionals and personnel from all levels and sectors of public and private education.

Project Shine
Provides an analysis of the motivations of immigrant elders engaged in civic roles and highlights the promising practices of agencies who successfully engage them.

Reinventing Aging
A Harvard School of Public Health Initiative on Retirement and Civic Engagement involving a national media campaign using news coverage, advertising, and prime-time entertainment programming to promote healthy aging, reshape cultural attitudes toward the older years, and encourage Boomers to volunteer their time, skills, and experience to help strengthen communities.

Senior Action Network
A San Francisco-based grass roots organization provides a model for promoting a livable city for seniors and persons with disabilities through grass-roots, community organizing and volunteer engagement.

Senior Corps
Senior Corps connects today’s over 55s with the people and organizations that need them most. We help them become mentors, coaches or companions to people in need, or contribute their job skills and expertise to community projects and organizations.

Sustainable Communities Network
Provides resources for encouraging civil discourse and involvement, and promotes engaging citizens to address common issues is essential for educated decision-making.

Quintessential Careers
An online leader in career and job-search advice offering more than 4,000 pages of free college, career, and job-search content to empower success in life for mature workers.

VolunteerMatch
A website that strengthens communities by making it easier for good people and good causes to connect. The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement.