5 Ways to Start an Encore Career
01/11/2013 - 08:44:04am
Retirement isn’t likely to make it onto any lists of hot trends for 2013. But if retirement is out, what’s in? For a growing number of people, it’s continued work. But not the same old work. Work that feels right. Work that matters. And work that may prove to be more significant than what came before. An encore career.
Want to get a move on your own encore? Here are 5 models for how it’s done, which you can also learn about by watching this recent segment on HuffPost Live.
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| Maggie Shannon , Maine Congress of Lake Associations |
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Maine Congress of Lake Associations
Purpose Prize Fellow 2012
Writer and former English teacher Maggie Shannon knew she wanted to spend her golden years on Maine’s “Golden Pond.” In childhood she had spent every summer on Great Pond, which inspired the play and movie, and her heart drew her back.
Founder and Director
Sustainable Food Lab
Purpose Prize Fellow 2012
A child of the activist ’60s, Hal Hamilton spent decades in Kentucky as a farmer, rural community activist and nonprofit director. He helped pioneer alternative food and agricultural systems that are kind to the environment and provide a livelihood for small farmers – the hallmarks of sustainable food production.
Founder and Facilitator
Grayson LandCare
Purpose Prize Fellow 2012
A native son of rural Virginia, Jerry Moles spent decades as a college professor and consultant helping rural communities cultivate productive, income-generating and environmentally friendly agricultural businesses. He worked mostly on the West Coast and in Sri Lanka. But when his mother fell ill in 1999, he found himself back in Virginia to oversee her care.
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| Richard Mabion , Building A Sustainable Earth Community |
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Building A Sustainable Earth Community
Purpose Prize Fellow 2012
In 2006, Kansas City, Kan., resident Richard Mabion started presenting an energy efficiency program to leaders of neighborhood groups at Livable Neighborhoods, a city-run organization created to consolidate and coordinate neighborhood services and address pressing issues. A pressing issue Mabion saw was the need for people of color to get involved in the effort to create a greener, healthier city – and world.
Vice President
The Conservation Fund
Purpose Prize Fellow 2012
In 1990, Mikki Sager was a midcareer administrative assistant looking to make an impact. A year later she co-created the Resourceful Communities Program, which brings together community leaders, grassroots groups, government agencies, land trusts and others to create businesses and jobs in rural North Carolina that protect the landscape and move people out of poverty.
A division of the nonprofit Conservation Fund, the Resourceful Communities Program provides planning, research, organizational development, fundraising and other technical assistance.
In her encore career, Judi Henderson-Townsend recycles more than 100,000 pounds of mannequins a year. Hers is an example of a for-profit green business that serves the greater good. She recalls her journey in this short video.
Purpose Prize Winner Lends Expertise to New York Times and NPR
06/04/2012 - 12:53:42pm
Purpose Prize winner Arlene Blum, whose research and advocacy led to a ban on a toxic fire retardant in children's sleepwear, has recently lent her expertise to two major media outlets.
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Edward Mazria, architect, founder and CEO of Architecture 2030 was awarded this year’s Purpose Prize. His work over the past eight years, after founding Architecture 2030, has set numerous environmental goals for the building industry. It has also brought many issues of sustainable design to the forefront of conversations and policies about buildings and their construction.
A growing share of startups are coming from older entrepreneurs these days. Civic Ventures throws a big spotlight on that trend every year with The Purpose Prize – a sort of Oscars for social entrepreneurs. Now in its sixth year, the award recognizes older career trailblazers who've demonstrated creative and effective work tackling social problems. One of this year's winners, Randal Charlton, helped budding entrepreneurs in the struggling city of Detroit as the executive director of TechTown.
