Here are resources on Encore.org.
Title |
Issues | |
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| U.S. Corporations Learn Charity is Good Business | Most of the last year's business headlines have featured a general erosion of confidence in corporate America. Yet at the same time, corporations have shown extraordinary innovation in how they are... | |
| U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Teacher | Children & Youth, Career counseling, Education & Training, Job Search | The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website provides detailed information on what a teacher does, how to become a teacher and what the job market is like for teachers. |
| U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook | Environment & Sustainability, Government, Health Care, Nonprofit | This excellent online resource from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides extensive information about hundreds of careers and types of work, including details on: training and education required,... |
| Try a New Career on for Size | Education & Training, Fellowships & Internships, Nonprofit | Focused on midlifers in the workplace, Civic Ventures offers Encore Fellowships to workers who are approaching retirement age. They can test drive a new career by interning at a nonprofit for six... |
| Troops to Teachers | Education & Training | Troops to Teachers helps veterans make the transition to teaching with subsidies and bonuses. This federal program matches untapped resources, experienced military veterans, with unmet needs –... |
| Transition to the Nonprofit Sector | Benefits, Interviews, Education & Training, Negotiate offer, Resumes, Job Search, Nonprofit, Volunteering | Bridgestar's Transition to the Nonprofit Sector portal contains a trove of information for people considering making the switch from for-profit work to nonprofit organizations. |
| Transforming Life After 50 (TLA50): Public Libraries and Boomers, CA Statewide | Job Search, Volunteering | Transforming Life After 50 (TLA50): Public Libraries and Boomers Statewide Statewide initiative of the California State Library to build capacity in community librarianship and develop a community of... |
| Train Like Muhammad Ali: Read These Tips for Boomer Entrepreneurs | Entrepreneur | Randal Charlton’s efforts at Detroit’s business incubator TechTown, where he was the executive director from 2007 until the end of October – and the turnaround in his personal life – landed him one... |
| Traders to Teachers | Education & Training | A new program at Montclair State University, Traders to Teachers, allows displaced financial services employees to obtain public school certification to teach mathematics in just three months. |
| Top Tips for Finding a Job, video | Aging & Older Adult Services, Education & Training, Job Search | On Good Morning America, workplace expert Tory Johnson tells the story of Jan Albert, who started her own caregiving business. Video length: 3:04 |
