Tom Berkshire

Your submission at Articles for creation: Generations of Hope (April 12)

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Robert McClenon (talk) 02:17, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Tom Berkshire! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 02:17, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Draft:Generations of Hope

Draft:Generations of Hope, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Generations of Hope and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Generations of Hope during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:47, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!

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• Hi Tom. It is my considered opinion that you should have have been even technically capable of creating even a draftspace page before gaining some mainspace editing experience. The probably that you, without experience, have at hand a missing topic, and are able to write it up properly, is negligible. Instead, I think you should first edit mainspace. For example, find existing topics to which “Generations of Hope” is relevant enough to warrant a mention. If you find that there is no mainspace page that it is worth a mention on, then it is most definitely not worth its own article. If you do find pages that are improved by mentions of this organisation, then you are rapidly succeeding in gaining experience, and are now in a good position to write the article. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:48, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Comments on Helpful clarification suggestions

Thanks for the reviews. As a newbie to this process I am afraid some of the comments spring from my lack of being clear. I am the author of the page ( I tried to model it after "l Arche" and other sites. We are not a housing organization but a non-profit providing assistance to other non-profits trying to better serve foster children, wounded warriors and people with behavioral and developmental disabilities. Each site is its own non-profit. More suggestions on edits are welcomed. note I have not found the conflict of interest questions but will fill out when I do. Please provide further information as we go through this process. ThanksTom Berkshire (talk) 14:41, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Generations of Hope

Generations of Hope is an initiative for social change based on the growing recognition that too many people in this country are facing serious challenges – changes that threaten their well-being, their happiness and ability to contribute to society. Communities under the inspiration of the Generations of Hope movement have developed an effective approach for addressing multiple seemingly intractable social challenges by creating communities that rebuild lives.

Over the last 25 years nationwide group of independent intergenerational communities have been formed where,

gifts and talents of ordinary people of all generations and vulnerabilities are utilize to effectively address social problems;

every resident is enfolded into networks of stable, caring, intergenerational relationships with the new neighborhood; and

these communities exemplify an innovative model of care, continuity and commitment for vulnerable populations and active elderly.

Generations of Hope inspired communities are founded on eight guiding principles:

1. Created to address a specific social challenges 2. Presence of three or more generations 3. Physical design facilitating relationships and aging in community 4. Practice grounded in theory and research 5. Evolving program design/learning from experience 6. Older adults are the community's volunteers 7. Requisite diversity of race, ethnicity, education, income, life experiences, and perspective. 8. Cohesion stopping short of insularity.

Generations of Hope and its communities have received national recognition. The concept has received positive media attention. For example, National Public Radio (December 2017), ABC's “Nightline”(October 1996), New York Times Front (April 1996.) Washington Post (December 2016), Boston Globe (May 2016)

It has been featured in several recent books including, Lesley Stahl, Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting (2016), Jo Ann Jenkins Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age (2018)and Bella De Paulo, How We Live Now (2015).

History

In the early 1990's Generations of Hope evolved from a crises in the Illinois Child Welfare system. Using the housing on a shuttered Air Force Base, Hope Meadows became the first intergenerational community serving foster children and their foster families. The concepts of creating a new type of helping community came out of the research of Dr. Brenda Eheart and Dr. Bauman Power sociologist at the University of Illinois. Generations of Hope was formed in 2006 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, with support from The W. K. Kellogg Foundation, to accelerate the nationwide development of neighborhoods based on the intentional neighboring concept. In addition to the challenge of supporting families who adopt children from the foster care system, the model is being adapted to other groups such as Wounded Warriors, vulnerable young mothers and their children, and adults with developmental disabilities. The vision is to enhance the lives of vulnerable populations by tapping the transformative power of intergenerational community living. Generations of Hope does not fund or build new communities. Instead, Hope provides technical assistance to all new developing sites and further refines the model as new vulnerable populations are served (9) There are now seven communities in the United States.Tom Berkshire (talk) 21:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks Tom. Sorry, we Wikipedians are developing paranoia around suspected Paid promoters. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

• Tom, ("Tom Berkshire (that is me) is the non-paid President and CEO of Generations of Hope (I live off my pension). Generations of Hope does not charge for its technical services. It is truly an non-profit!",

I recommend that you put this information on your main userpage, User:Tom Berkshire, which exists primarily for you to introduce yourself.

I recommend that that you do not start be writing about Generations of Hope, your main interest, but instead start with things related to it, and you can work with a view to introducing into other pages context for mentions of Generations of Hope. This will give you some experience, and exposure to other editors already interested in these topics. If, note the if, your introductions of mentions of Generations of Hope stick, are accepted by other editors, and are improved by other editors, then you begin to have a case to flesh out the mentions and write the article. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:14, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank You - Robert, Smokey and all reviewers

I wanted to thank you for all your work reviewing the Generations of Hope proposal. I know you all are part of an 80,000 team of volunteers trying to make the site the best possible. Your guidance while not successful the Generations was thoughtful and helpful. As I am now 75 years old and a non-paid CEO for Generations, I think that this attempt will be the only effort in the future.

Good luck to all and thank you again for your work.

Tom Berkshire generationsofhope.orgTom Berkshire (talk) 01:51, 30 April 2018 (UTC)