Encore Fellowships are an exciting new social innovation to unleash encore talent as a powerful force for solving social problems. For social purpose agencies, initiatives and communities, they provide needed high-value talent. For experienced, highly skilled employees, they offer a transition from midlife careers to encore careers that combine personal meaning, continued income and social impact.

Civic Ventures spearheaded the design and testing of Encore Fellowships, launching a pilot in 2009. The pilot program successfully tested the Encore Fellowships concept in California’s Silicon Valley with 10 Encore Fellows – highly skilled former corporate employees with deep experience in marketing, finance, human resources and team management.

Based on the pilot’s success, in 2010 Civic Ventures will continue to operate and innovate the Silicon Valley Encore Fellows Program. More importantly, Civic Ventures is actively working with communities, corporations, organizations and individuals to create Encore Fellowships programs in other geographic areas, with other organizations.

Learn more about milestones in Encore Fellowships development.