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Sophia Chang, a physician and
director of the Better Chronic Disease
Care Program at the California
HealthCare Foundation, discusses
how Encore Fellows are helping
community health clinics run more
efficiently. (Click the photo.)

Video length – 2:58

Encore Fellowships program sponsors are realizing a variety of benefits:

• Community engagement. Corporations and foundations have long been important supporters of community-based nonprofits. Encore Fellowships provide a unique new opportunity for grantors to provide direct, high-leverage assistance to the organizations they support.
• Employee/member engagement. Encore Fellowships can be an attractive option for people transitioning from midlife careers to encore careers. A fellowship option can fit well with other programs such as early retirement, volunteerism or career transition services.
• Market engagement. Most leading corporations have found ways to leverage their social responsibility efforts with their core business mission. Encore Fellowships allow companies to target specific sectors that will be most relevant to their customers such as education, health care, environment, arts and culture or even the baby boomer market itself.

Intel has partnered with Civic
Ventures, the originator of Encore
Fellows, to participate in an Encore
Fellows pilot for U.S. pre-retirees
as part of the new Intel Retirement
Services program.
(Click the photo.)

Video length – 3:04

We have created a simple set of resources to help organizations design, organize and operate Encore Fellowships programs of their own. The attached Program Creation Guide will help you define and create a work plan for a new Encore Fellowships program.

The guide will help you:

1. Define the program
2. Create a resource plan
3. Create a funding plan
4. Create a project plan

Additional tools and resources referenced in the Guide can be found in our Programs Community wiki. To join our Programs Community, please contact us using the form provided.

Encore Fellows bring a wide variety of highly transferable skills that can have a huge impact in the organizations that host them. Typical functional backgrounds for fellows and the project areas they relate to include:

• Marketing/communications, brand management, messaging and public relations
• Information technology, most aspects of hardware, software and cloud computing technology planning, implementation and maintenance
• Human resources policies, systems and structures, staff development and coaching
• Legal issues, such as structure, contracts, tax, employment and intellectual property
• Financial management, including accounting, business processes, budgeting, forecasting, and cost modeling
• Sales/business development, policies and strategies, fundraising initiatives and target donor identification
• Strategic planning, scaling initiatives, partnerships, deployment and board recruitment
• Operations and performance management planning, coordination and analysis
• Project/program management for change initiatives, a new venture or expansion
• Technical specialists in specific skill areas such as engineering and statistics

Carol Larson, CEO of The
David and Lucile Packard
Foundation, speaks about why
they support the Encore
Fellowships Network. The
Packard Foundation was the
founding sponsor of the original
2009 Silicon Valley Encore
Fellows program. (Click the photo.)

Video length – 1:33