Are you working to raise awareness of ageism and how to dismantle it?
Would you like input? Collaborators? Co-conspirators? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Old School Hub is a platform for people and organizations doing anti-ageism work to find and support each other’s efforts. Our working group, the Hubsters, can be involved in whatever ways make sense to the people behind each project, —whether you’re just starting out or already making an impact. We welcome projects of all types and sizes—as long as they focus explicitly on ageism.
If you’d like to submit a project or learn more, scroll down for our Ten Guiding Questions and the Old School Hub Submission Form.
Some sample projects:
“Expanding Age Advocacy”
Old School and Virginia Commonwealth University are using focus groups to investigate how people working on other social justice issues perceive aging, age bias, and age advocacy.
(Contact: Tracey Gendron)
Age Equity Alliance
This think-tank partners with organizations and businesses to build an innovative, age-positive workplace. It was incubated at Old School.
(Contact: Sheila Callaham)
FUFA - Francophones Unis Face a l’Ageisme
This coalition of French-speaking anti-ageism advocates around the world began as a collaboration between Old School and the Pass It On Network.
(Contact: Moira Allen)
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Have something for the Hub?
Does your project focus explicitly on ageism? When you describe it, can you answer “yes” to most or all of these Ten Guiding Questions:
- Is your project necessary for some and good for all?
- Does it tap into the joy and power of coming together?
- Do all ages have a voice in it?
- Does it acknowledge and address internalized ageism?
- Does it reflect the fact that words matter, and that language is a moving target?
- Are your strategies fluid and diverse enough to tackle the complex nature of ageism?
- Does it honor our minds, bodies, and spirits?
- Does it account for the relationship between age and power?
- Are death and end-of-life part of the conversation?
- Does it involve the soft skills—around allyship, persistence, courage, vulnerability, and generative conflict—that a sustainable movement requires?
As you review and return to these questions, keep one more in mind: Who is missing? The anti-ageism movement is predominantly made up of white, non-disabled, middle-class olders. To help change that, Old School will prioritize projects from communities that are under-represented in age advocacy and/or address issues that matter to them.
If you answered “yes” to most or all of these questions, we’d love to learn about your project! Please use this form to tell us more: