Social Innovator in Broward County Wins Prestigious Innovation Fellowship

 

For immediate release: Oct. 20, 2022

For more information, contact: Tara Chadwick, wabigun@yahoo.com, 786-671-8272

 

Social Innovator in Broward County, FL Wins

Prestigious Innovation Fellowship

 

CoGenerate selects Tara Chadwick, founding director of the Papalotl (Butterfly) Project for fellowship dedicated to groundbreaking intergenerational solutions

 

Broward County, FL, October 20, 2022 -- CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org) today announced that Tara Chadwick has been selected as one of 15 Gen2Gen Innovation Fellows, a group of the nation’s most talented innovators and entrepreneurs marshaling their best ideas to create and scale intergenerational solutions.

 

Tara Chadwick, a local artist and social innovator was selected from a field of more than 120 applicants. Her project brings elders and children together to share knowledge about food, health and urban farming through art and culture.

 

“I am honored and excited to join CoGenerate in their third cohort of Innovation Fellows focused on strengthening our practice of bringing people together across generations and geographies to build knowledge through vibrant, intercultural experiences.” TChadwick

 

CoGenerate, a nonprofit bridging generational divides, launched the fellowship to spur and support new ways to bring older and younger people together to solve pressing problems.

 

The 15 fellows selected, ranging in age from 27 to 75, are bridging generational divides while also fighting for racial and environmental justice, empowering immigrant communities, healing trauma, registering young people to vote, reducing ageism and loneliness, and so much more.

 

“In these polarizing times, the Innovation Fellows pull people together to seek solutions, build bridges across divides, and find deeper connection in the process,” says CoGenerate Co-CEO Eunice Lin Nichols. “We’re inspired by the urgency, creativity and impact of their work.”

 

Over the next nine months, fellows will meet with one another and with experts who will help them advance their work. Each fellow will receive $10,000 and the chance to present their ideas at a showcase taking place in 2023. 

 

The Innovation Fellowship is funded by The Eisner Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, and RRF Foundation for Aging.

 

Learn more about the fellowship at cogenerate.org/innovation-fellowships

 

Learn more about Tara Chadwick and the Papalotl (Butterfly) Project at TaraAlomaChadwick.blogspot.com and https://cogenerate.org/people/tara-chadwick/ 

 

Papalotl (Butterfly) Project is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts. Support has also been provided by Broward County Cultural Division and the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Helen and Frank Stoykov Charitable Endowment Fund, Louise and Rudi Dill Charitable Fund, Mary and Alex Mackenzie Community Impact Fund.

 

CoGenerate is a national nonprofit organization that brings older and younger changemakers together to solve problems, bridge divides and co-create the future.

 

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