Encore 2011 featured the voices of inspiring authors and innovators, including Civic Ventures' own Marc Freedman, social entrepreneur and New York Times columnist David Bornstein, educator and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu, journalist and television anchor Jane Pauley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg, and entrepreneur Peter Sims.

Encore 2011 participants came from innovative organizations that are working to advance the encore movement in different sectors and different locations. They represented:

a3career
AARP
AARP TV
Alearn
Allegheny Mountain School
American Association of Community Colleges
American Council on Education
American Geriatrics Society
American Leadership Forum, MVC
American Public Media
Aspiranet
The Bridgespan Group
California HealthCare Foundation
The Center for Closing the Health Gap
Civic Ventures
Coming of Age
Community Experience Partnership
Cordes Foundation
Deerbrook Charitable Trust
Detroit Free Press
Discovering What's Next
Dowser Media
EducateVA
ElderChicks.com
Elders in Action
Encore Career Institute
Encore Fellowships Community Clinics
Encore Fellowships Network
EngAGE
Every Child Succeeds
Experience Matters
Experience Talks
Fielding Graduate University
Fresh Artists
Future Mosaic
GateWay Community College
Generations Incorporated
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
The Goodman Center
Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Guiding Lights Network
Harold Washington College
Harvard Business Review
Harvard University
Institute at the Golden Gate
Institute for Age-Friendly Housing
Intel
John Templeton Foundation
Join the Club
JumpStart Productions
JVA Consulting
Keppie Careers
LaGuardia Community College
Legacy Venture
Lion's Peak
Merrill Lynch
MetLife Mature Market Institute
Mia Senior Living Solutions
Monitor
Institute National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
New Directions, Inc.
Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group LLC
Northern California Presbyterian Homes & Services (NCPHS)
Northwestern University
OneOC
Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, National Resource Center
Participant Media
Pathmaker Coaching
The Philanthropy Roundtable
PINCC (Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer)
Princeton AlumniCorps (formerly Princeton Project 55)
Project H.O.M.E.
Project Renewment
PublicAffairs Books
PurposeWork
ReServe
RetirementJobs.com
Reuters
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rose Community Foundation
S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
San Diego County Aging & Independence Services
Sansori LLC
Skoll Foundation
Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College
Social Venture Partners International
Social Venture Partners Portland
Stanford University
Stanford University School of Medicine
State of Vermont
StoveTeam International
Strategic Energy Innovations
Suffolk University
TechTown
The Transition Network
UConn Nonprofit Leadership
United Neighborhood Houses
United Way of Central New Mexico
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Urban Rivers Institute
The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
Westchester Community College
Williams Group
Wisdom by Design
Workman Publishing
Yellowstone National Park
YMCA of the USA