Continuing the Retirement Conversation – The Couple's Retirement Puzzle
The first of 78 million boomers have begun to turn 65, with a life expectancy of an additional 20 to 30 years. Boomers are being challenged to redefine retirement and reinvent themselves and their relationships as they transition to the next part of life.
Start: 06/21/2011 - 6:30 p.m.
End: 06/21/2011 - 9 p.m.
Encore Service Threatened: Visit SaveService.Org Now
02/18/2011 - 01:17:24pm
Just two years ago, the encore careers community helped to pass a law that represents huge bipartisan support for service by people of all ages: the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. Serve America, as the law is commonly known, set a course for expanding the number of people across the country who tutor and mentor young children, provide academic enrichment after school, increase access to health care through community health centers, make it possible for older citizens to age in place and help families affected by natural disasters.
- by: MichelleHynes | More >
Stewart Brand Recaps Bateson Talk on Living longer
02/14/2011 - 01:52:53pm
Editor's Note: Stewart Brand, creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, co-founder of The Long Now Foundation and a 2006 Purpose Prize Fellow, recently sent out this thoughtful summary of a talk by Mary Catherine Bateson called "Live Longer, Think Longer." It was one in a series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking that he hosts through his foundation:
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ReVV2011 Conference: Revisioning Value
Hosted by Springboard Innovation, ReVV2011 is a unique conference experience for directors and staff from enterprise (nonprofits and for-profits), finance, foundations and funders.
Start: 03/07/2011
End: 03/08/2011
Changing the World through AmeriCorps Encore Service
12/20/2010 - 02:53:22pm
“You don't have to be a lottery winner to make a difference in your community or halfway around the globe,” writes Kelly Greene says in her "How to Change the World" column in today's The Wall Street Journal. “People who are winding down first or primary careers and looking for new directions are discovering that for the cost of a weekend getaway, they can help change the world. Or start to."
- by: Nancy Peterson | More >
Scoring a Fiscal and Social Win-Win
12/02/2010 - 08:38:37pm
It's safe to say the debt commission's proposal to raise Social Security's retirement age to 69 has more to do with trimming finances than it does with a compelling vision of longer working lives.
But there is a bountiful fiscal and social harvest to be reaped by accelerating the growing trend toward working longer -- by choice, not fiat. It's not a stretch to say encore careers could help drive the kind of economic prosperity and job creation needed to make the debt more manageable.
- by: David Bank | More >
A new report from America's Promise Alliance describes progress, challenges, and opportunities related to reaching a 90 percent high school graduation rate across the country. Read a related blog, or go directly to the full report.
David Bornstein on Struggling Social Entrepreneurs
11/29/2010 - 09:47:45am
If you spend any time with David Bornstein, as I have been lucky to do recently, you will likely start thinking that the world is a place filled with altruistic people who dedicate their time and talents to fixing what’s wrong. As one of the leading experts on social entrepreneurship and social innovation, Bornstein, a senior fellow with Civic Ventures, has written three books and interviewed hundreds of leaders in the field.
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Kerry Hannon: Keep Your Eye on Marc Freedman
11/16/2010 - 06:41:31am
Who are the people with big ideas that are worth watching in 2011? Forbes magazine is making a list, and the latest entry is Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
"Smart Retirement Decisions" to Reduce the Debt
11/11/2010 - 10:27:40pm
Receiving almost no attention in the uproar over the debt-reduction plan from the co-chairs of President Obama's fiscal commission is the final proposal: "Promote Smart Retirement Decisions."
- by: David Bank | More >
