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Online Press Room
Welcome to the Generations United Newsroom. Let us be your resource for information, commentary, and analysis on a wide range of intergenerational issues. Executive Director Donna Butts is our primary spokesperson and has considerable experience giving interviews, on-camera, in person, or by phone.

You can rely on us to respect your deadlines and time constraints. And if we don’t have the answers to your needs, we’ll do our best to steer you in the right direction. We look forward to working with you.

Areas of Expertise
  • Grandfamilies (grandparents and other relatives raising children, aka Kinship families)
  • Intergenerational shared sites (facilities which house services for both young and old) 
  • Intergenerational public policy
  • Multi-generational families
  • Multi-generational workforce
  • Older adults advocating on behalf of children 
These links provide further information
Media Coverage
Generations This Week - our weekly e-newsletter
Press Kit
News

Generations United's most recent Family Matters report featured on Time.com. Read the story about multigenerational families here.


Read Donna's take on grandparents providing child care in a recent story published in The Denver Post.


  Media Contact

  Colleen Appleby-Carroll
  202-289-3979
  ccarroll@gu.org
America's Best 
Intergenerational
Communities
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Where: 
Dirksen Senate Office Building
When:
Wednesday March 28, 2012
from 1:30 to 2:30 PM EDT
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