This webcast presents highlights of AARP’s resources for employers who want to employ older workers. It includes an assessment tool presented by Deborah Russell, Director, Workforce Issues, AARP. To see a videocast of Russell’s entire presentation, including her slides, click here, then click on the right arrow to start the video.

Groups are forming all over the nation of experienced individuals who want to channel their energy and talents into work that matters. The activities of these organizations range from casual chats over coffee to intensive workshops focused on discovering your purpose in life. Many are active supporters of encore careers that combine income and meaning with social impact. Most offer free newsletters.

View a list of Midlife Transition Groups.

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Gray Is Green (The National Senior Conservation Corps) enables people over 65 to actively participate in creating positive environmental change.

Does Age Matter? Exploring Life Stage, Career Stage and Perceptions of Quality Employment: Findings From the NEW Age & Generations Study is a video presented by Kathy Lynch, director of employer engagement for the Center on Aging and Work, Boston College.

To the video of Lynch’s entire presentation, including her slides, click here, then click on the right arrow to start the video.

Civic Ventures’ new Get Started Guide answers 12 of the questions most commonly asked by individual seeking encore careers that offer income doing work that is personally fulfilling and has social impact.

Among the questions answers are “How can I update my job skills,” “How do I finance the transition to an encore career?” and “How do I transition from a corporate job to a nonprofit one?”

Whether you are a nonprofit employer interested in further developing your workforce or someone who is interested in an encore career but has not previously worked at a nonprofit, a new report, “A Perfect Match? How Nonprofits are Tapping into the Boomer Talent Pool”, by Jill Casner-Lotto of The Conference Board, provides “actionable advice” for both.

In SuperCorp, Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that for businesses to realize their full potential in the 21st century they will need to add a “social logic” to the narrow “financial logic” that’s led to so much strife and dislocation over the past few years. The book traces the experience and lessons of a set of companies across the globe that are managing to pull this integration off, from Cemex in Mexico, Banco Real in Brazil, and Proctor and Gamble.

A Long Bright Future: An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security by Laura Carstensen.

This 2009 Census Bureau report “Work Status of People 65 Years and Older: 2008 American Community Survey” by Braedyn K. Woodring and David J. Howard projects the 65+ population to increase by 79 percent from 2010 to 2030, representing 19 percent of the total population by 2030. In 2008 15.5 percent of people aged 65 and older participated in the labor force. Among the 50 states, labor participation rates among the 65+ group were highest in Alaska at 23.2 percent.