Here are resources on Encore.org.
Title |
Issues | |
|---|---|---|
| Woman Inspired to Help Chinese Orphans | Children & Youth, Education & Training, International & Foreign Affairs, Poverty, At-Risk Populations | Award-winning journalist Janey Pauley explores the inspriation and the work of 2011 Purpose Prize winner Jenny Bowen, who is dramatically improving the lives of thousands of orphans in China. Pauley... |
| Winner of Encore Career Prize Fights for Jobs in Detroit With a Business Incubator | Economic Development, Opportunity, Education & Training, Entrepreneur | The winners of the 2011 Purpose Prize were unveiled today by the Encore Careers campaign, and it’s an inspiring group – as usual. The annual award recognizes older career trailblazers who have... |
| Wilson Goode, video | Children & Youth | |
| Wilma Melville, video | Community Improvement & Organizing, Entrepreneur, Public Safety, Disaster Response & Prep | |
| Wilma Melville, podcast | Community Improvement & Organizing, Entrepreneur, Public Safety, Disaster Response & Prep | WILMA MELVILLE - This Purpose Prize winner took a simple idea - training dogs to save lives - to a high level. |
| Why Working in Retirement Can Pay Dividends for Your Clients – If They Can Pull It Off | Aging & Older Adult Services, Education & Training, Networking | More than half of American workers say they plan to keep on working in retirement. That finding from a recent survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies may sound like a contradiction... |
| Why We Don't Want to Retire | Advocacy, Social Action, Policy, Education & Training | The late-life career is still a novel concept, says Marci Alboher, author of One Person/Multiple Careers and a vice president at Civic Ventures, a San Francisco-based think tank that promotes... |
| Why Retire? | Architecture and Design, Entrepreneur, Environment & Sustainability | Edward Mazria is one of five people who received the $100,000 Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures. The idea behind the award: Society has a lot of problems, and people over age 60 have the expertise to... |
| Why Older Americans are at Huge Disadvantage in This Job Market | Aging & Older Adult Services, Job Search | The recent recession has forced boomers to stay employed an average of 2.1 years longer than they planned on before the downturn. Civic Ventures and MetLife Foundation says that around 31 million... |
| Why 'Encore Careers' Fail Boomers | Job Search | Encore career, second act, bridge job – what burnt-out boomer doesn’t love the idea of a late-life career switch, new enough to be interesting and lucrative enough to make a full retirement... |
