Job Openings at Echoing Green
09/01/2010 - 02:09:59pm
Echoing Green is hiring. The nonprofit organization has three positions available that are ideal jobs for individuals seeking encore careers. All are full time and are based in New York City.
Echoing Green is a nonprofit that invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs (called Echoing Green Fellows) to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions. It has invested $28 million in seed funding to more than 471 social entrepreneurs and their innovative organizations.
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Marc Freedman Named to Most Influential List
08/05/2010 - 05:32:04pm
Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, has been named to The NonProfit Times’ 2010 list of the 50 most powerful and influential individuals in the nonprofit sector. Civic Ventures is the nonprofit organization that publishes Encore.org.
The NonProfit Times (NPT) notes that Freedman “took a spin-off of Public Private Ventures and made it more prominent than the original. He put the notion of ‘encore careers’ on the map and is a much sought-after speaker and thinker. He also created Experience Corps , one of the more successful national service ventures.
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Oakland Principal Transitions to Eco-Career
08/02/2010 - 04:04:55pm
"I'm just not inclined to take up a life of leisure," Paul Chapman told Valerie Creque.
Creque reports in the Contra Costa Times that Chapman, who served as principal of the Head-Royce School in Oakland, Calif., for 26 years is "rewiring" to an encore career honoring his commitment to education and the environment.
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Encore Careers Get a Hearing on Capitol Hill
07/16/2010 - 10:41:59am
Encore careers got their first big hearing on Capitol Hill on July 15 when Civic Ventures CEO Marc Freedman testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.
See the hearing on CSPAN
See a video of the hearing and read the official testimony
Read U.S. News & World Report's summary of the testimony: "Six Reasons to Delay Retirement".
The underlying message of the hearing, called “Choosing to Work During Retirement and the Impact on Social Security,” was clear: It’s time to provide incentives to help millions more people find encore careers that provide continued income, personal meaning and social impact.
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Obama Appoints Purpose Prize Winner
07/14/2010 - 04:55:49pm
President Obama has appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, who won the $100,000 Purpose Prize in 2007, to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which operates health programs that insure almost a third of all Americans.
The president pushed through a "recess appointment" of Berwick during Congress' annual Fourth of July break, triggering some criticism by Republicans. Noting that the CMS post had been unfilled since 2006, Obama's communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, wrote on the White House blog that Republications "were going to stall the nomination as long as they could, solely to score political points."
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The Anxiety of Deciding What's Next
07/07/2010 - 05:36:25pm
Ruth Wooden, chairman of the board of Civic Ventures, which publishes Encore.org, was surprised at the reactions she received when she recently told friends she was planning to retire from her position as president of a nonprofit. Some people asked, "Are you sick?" But the most frequent response was, "What are you going to do next?"
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JobTalkAmerica Interviews Marci Alboher
07/07/2010 - 05:03:15pm
Marci Alboher appeared recently on JobTalkAmerica, a new Internet radio show hosted by Ted Canova and Sam Zeff, two veteran journalists who are helping people reinvigorate their job search and find balance in their lives.
Click here to listen to the interview, in which Alboher talks about her own encore career search and provides tips to others.
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In Memoriam: Robert Butler, Expert on Aging
07/06/2010 - 07:02:22pm
Dr. Robert Butler, a Pulitzer Prize winning expert on aging who coined the word "ageism," died on Sunday at age 83. He was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, and wrote several books on aging, including the one for which he won the Pulitzer Prize: Why Survive: Being Old in America.
He delved into the implications of aging in our society in another book, The Longevity Revolution. You can read excerpts here.
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Obama Nominates Civic Ventures VP
06/24/2010 - 10:43:37pm
President Obama announced today his intent to nominate seven individuals to the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, including Phyllis Segal, a vice president of Civic Ventures. Encore.org is an initiative of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit think tank that is leading the call to engage millions of experienced individuals in becoming a force for social change.
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Purpose Prize Winner Gary Maxworthy Wins National Jefferson Award
06/23/2010 - 04:12:48pm
Gary Maxworthy, who was awarded The Purpose Prize in 2007, has been honored with a Jefferson Award, the “Nobel Prize of Public Service,” for creating a San Francisco Food Bank initiative that distributes 80 million pounds of produce to California’s 3 million residents at risk of hunger.
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