Imagine San Diego works with the following principles:

- intergenerational collaboration is our preferred way of working

- strength-based and vision-based communications which invite participants to name what matters and how things could be different

- integration of arts-based activities into civic dialogue

- a commitment to place-based intercultural communities of practice within which people share ideas, resources and practical tools that make a tangible community difference.

Citizen Leaders College, a new intergenerational leadership program to prepare local citizen leaders - including young people - to create innovative community projects that make a positive difference within their neighborhood and across the city.

Conversations With The Future: San Diego Stories, a new intergenerational interview project which gives young adults and community builders in San Diego opportunities to share their hopes and commitments for the city in a setting of mutual respect, culminating in a public celebration that brings generations together, creates a community art piece, and provides and encourages participation in opportunities for public action. Reconstituting a shared sense of civic community.  (Note: Oaks & Acorns conducted an earlier version of this project, “Great Oak Stories,” in 2004, focusing on gathering personal oral histories of San Diego seniors.)