Generations of Hope: Timeline

1992	January	Hope for the Children begins efforts to acquire funding and housing to establish Hope Meadows
1993	June	Illinois Legislature awards $1,000,000 to establish Hope Meadows
1993	September	Negotiations with the Pentagon to acquire military housing on Chanute Air Force Base are completed
1994	March	Housing on Chanute Air Force Base is acquired
	May	First families move in
	September	Official opening of Hope Meadows. First pre-adoptive foster child arrives.
1995	September	Senior Volunteer Program formalized
	October	Intergenerational Community Center opens
1996	February	Chicago Tribune publishes the first national front-page news story on Hope Meadows
	June	Hope Meadows celebrates its first adoption
1997	August	Generations of Hope Research and Policy Program is launched in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois
1998	November	Hope for the Children receives US Department of Human Services ‘Adoption Excellence Award’
1999	November	Hope seniors receive Illinois Governor's ‘Home Town' Award for volunteerism
2000	September	Hope for the Children is officially renamed Generations of Hope.
2002	November	Hope’s founder receives US Department of Human Services ‘Adoption Excellence Award’
2004	September	Hope celebrates tenth year anniversary
2005	April	Whitepaper on “Intergenerational Community as Intervention” (ICI) is drafted
2005	August	W.K. Kellogg Foundation awards funding for development and replication of the ICI model, based on the Hope Meadows pilot
2006	September	Generations of Hope Development Corporation is established