Generation Collaboration

Generation Collaboration is a not-for-profit organization founded July 2020, by Isabella Karmis, as a way to help our community of Southern California through such an extraordinarily difficult time. Living months through a statewide lockdown, Isabella sought a way to bring a smile to those at the highest risk and also the most isolated: seniors living in care facilities unable to see their loved ones due to COVID-19 restrictions. Within the first nine months of its founding, Generation Collaboration distributed over 600 individually crafted cards to senior centers and hospitals across Southern California, each made by our amazing volunteers. 

With the gradual ease of COVID-19, our reach has expanded include various project such as a beach clean-up at Doheny State Park Beach, a book drive benefiting the Tustin Unified School District (over 400 books were donated), to becoming annual supporters of the CHOC Glass Slipper Gala. We have helped to spread joy by donating wish list items to Miller's Children's Hospital's Child Life Department, and have raised funds to send a camper to a summer session of San Juan Capistrano's Special Camp. This past holiday season, volunteers rolled up their sleeves to create holiday decorations for our senior centers, and most recently over one hundred care packages were created and filled with notepads, crayons, and legos to be distributed by UNHCR to Ukrainian children as they cross into Poland. We are proud of how much we have been able to learn and give back to our Southern California community, as well as our global community. 

As always, thank you in your continued support of our mission to unite generations through spreading acts of kindness.