Organizations Filed Purposes:
SAGE motivates action and volunteerism through grassroots conversations and leadership development, so that older adults engage in and support causes and nonprofit programs that are vital to the needs of children, youth, and future generations. Our supporters are guided by generational equity - the principle that each generation should improve the quality of life for the next.
SAGE inspires people over fifty to give forward with their time, money and voice so that younger and future generations can thrive.
Leadership and Education: SAGE led discussions and workshops to raise awareness about the challenges facing younger and future generations, and ways to make a difference. We led 6 events including workshops on civic engagement, charitable giving, and on connecting across generations, and we sponsored a conference focused on helping children heal from trauma. We also engaged and supported our young leaders advisory board to strengthen SAGE's intergenerational programs. During the year, SAGE also pilot tested a mentoring program to connect older adults to middle school students who needed extra support to learn to read, write, and speak in English. At the start of the pandemic, SAGE organized a large, online event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of earth day.
Legacy Fellowship: SAGE launched its sixth legacy fellowship, our leadership development program to inspire, train and support individuals and teams to carry out community benefit projects of their own design. With the support of our coaches, each fellow defined a community challenge or area of need and leveraged their strengths to implement a solution. For example, one fellow organized a state-wide effort to engage multiple groups to celebrate earth day together. Another fellow organized an initiative to track pollution from plastic bottles around the world. A third fellow led a project to engage high school students to build tiny homes for people experiencing homelessness (project was impacted by school shutdowns). SAGE honored the 9 graduates of the program in June of 2020. Together, fellows demonstrate how citizen initiatives strengthen communities and improve our world.
SAGE Awards: we organized our SAGE awards event to honor an individual and an organization for giving forward to future generations. Due to the pandemic, we postponed the event to the fall of 2020 (next fiscal year) and hosted the awards online for over 250 guests. We honored Jay Bloom for his leadership to build age-friendly communities. We honored Bridge Meadows for building communities in which all generations are valued.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Stephen Higgs | Executive Director | 40 | $88,000 |
| Neal Naigus | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Rick Nitti | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Danielle Lessler | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Ben Manny | Director | 6 | $0 |
| Jeanne Roy | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Kristen Grauer | Director | 1.3 | $0 |
| Diane Ponti | Director | 3 | $0 |
| Bruce Watts | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Leslie Johnson | Director | 1 | $0 |
| John Daggett | Director | 10 | $0 |
| Marcus Wood | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Randy Sell | Treasurer and Director | 1 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Schellberg | Secretary and Director | 2.5 | $0 |
| S Ward Greene | President and Director | 12 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
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