Andrew Dowling

Andrew is Founder and CEO of Stitch.net and the not-for-profit charity Wipeoutloneliness.org, and is passionate about making the world a better place. You can learn more about Andrew's background and what prompted him to start Stitch in this interview with Authority Magazine.

Stitch wins United Nations ITU WSIS Healthy Ageing award

Stitch wins United Nations Award for Impact on Healthy Aging

It gives me an enormous amount of pleasure to announce that the United Nations ITU and the Global Coalition on Aging awarded the 2024 WSIS Healthy Aging Innovation Prize to Stitch in Geneva last week. The United Nations! We have had plenty of things to celebrate over the years with Stitch, but this ranks right up there

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It's Stitch's 10 Year Birthday

Celebrate Stitch’s 10 Year Anniversary With Us! #worldcommunityweek

That’s right, it’s been ten years since we first started Stitch! Can you believe it? Stitch — or at least the idea that would eventually become Stitch — was officially launched on March 11, 2014, when I wrote a blog article about dating and relationships for older adults, and asked for feedback on a new

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Older adults are finding joy with Stitch, the social community for anyone over 50

Richard was burnt out and lonely Richard Harris, a customer service manager from San Jose, had just turned 55. After working hard for many years, he had always thought that when he reached this age he would be happy and fulfilled, and could start to focus on enjoying life.  Instead, he was feeling burnt out

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Do Something Great

A force for good: The Stitch Community is now a not-for-profit charity

We’ve got some very important news to share. We had hoped to make this announcement a few weeks ago, but the COVID-19 crisis has naturally overwhelmed everything for us over the last two weeks (and if you’re interested, please read about how the community is responding to the crisis). Now that the full implications of

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