Through the arts, Innovation 80 brings younger and older generations together to create, connect, learn from one another, and build relationships that matter.
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Innovation 80 supports and advances arts-based experiences where younger and older generations create together, learn from one another, and build the trust, belonging, and social bonds that strengthen healthy communities.
Our StoryLoneliness and social isolation affect people across generations, and the consequences reach far beyond how people feel. They affect physical health, mental wellbeing, cognitive health, belonging, and community life.
U.S. adults report experiencing loneliness
Adults ages 50–80 report loneliness
of adults 65+ are socially isolated
higher risk of dementia associated with chronic loneliness
Innovation 80 responds by intentionally rebuilding human connection across generations.
See Why Connection Matters →The arts are not simply an activity. They help develop the human capacities healthy communities require.
Through artistic creation, people develop identity, voice, self-reflection, and creativity. Art gives people space to explore who they are and what matters to them.
Creating together requires listening, empathy, trust, perspective-taking, and collaboration. It allows people from different generations to encounter one another in ways ordinary conversation often does not.
An initiative focused on providing educational resources to underprivileged children.
A single intergenerational creative experience can strengthen empathy, belonging, mentorship, creativity, meaning, and legacy.
Explore Why the Arts Matter →Innovation 80 brings grantee leaders together quarterly in a structured peer-learning environment. They exchange ideas, address common challenges, strengthen program design, improve evaluation, explore funding opportunities, and learn from one another's experience. What one organization learns can benefit the entire network.
A grant to Innovation 80 does more than support a single program. It strengthens nonprofit organizations, accelerates learning across the network, and builds the infrastructure that helps intergenerational arts work endure.
Your support helps create meaningful intergenerational arts experiences while strengthening the organizations that make those experiences possible.
Connecting the Young and the Young at Heart