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Innovations Documentary Series
 People Everywhere Are Working for the Greater Good in the Second Half of Life

The Innovations documentary series profiles the work of creative organizations that engage older Americans in new and compelling ways to revitalize their communities.

Profiled in Innovations:

Innovations Series:
Experience Corps: Lessons for Life
A tale of local heroes, women and men from economically blighted inner-city areas, foregoing conventional retirement to devote their time and energy to children in need.
 
 

Innovations Series:
Hope Meadows: Raising a Neighborhood
A former military base converted into a foster care village where older adults help take care of some of the most vulnerable young people in society.
 
 

Innovations Series:
Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corps: Finding God in All Things
People age 50 and older who have retired but choose to continue working – with food banks, homeless shelters, prison ministries, and other programs to contribute to their communities.
 

Innovations Series: RV Care-a-Vanners
RV Care-a-Vanners: Giving Shelter
Older adults who reinvest in community – and not just their own – by building houses with Habitat for Humanity and helping low-income families make a fresh start.
 
 

Innovations Series: Samaritan House
Samaritan House Free Clinic: The Art of Medicine
A medical miracle in a small California city offers a glimpse of how we might make the most of America's aging society.
 
 

Innovations Series:
Rainbow Intergenerational Child Care Center: Subject of My Heart
For more than 14 years, working poor families in Miami's Little Havana have found assistance from Cuban-born refugees – all of whom are older women.
 
 

Funding for this series has been provided through generous grants from the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and The Atlantic Philanthropies.

Photographs by Alex Harris

Essays by Rob Gurwitt

Audio Production by Elana Hadler

Introductions by Marc Freedman

Series edited by Susan Tomaro

Design by Molly Renda

Turning the tables: from an experience drain to an experience gain
Turning the tables: from an experience drain to an experience gain

Doomsayers see the aging boom as a problem to be solved, a costly gray wave. Civic Ventures sees this longevity revolution differently — as the springboard for an America made better by experience.

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