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Intel Offers Encore Benefit to Employees Near Retirement

Intel is the first company to make Encore Fellowships – paid, part-time, yearlong assignments working at local nonprofits – available to all of its eligible pre-retiree employees nationwide.

It’s a bold move that could signal a sea change in corporate retirement benefits and bring a new wave of talent into the nonprofit sector.

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Purpose Prize Winners Recognized by Major Media

The 2011 Purpose Prize winners are making big news.

Since the five winners were announced November 3, media outlets from across the country have been highlighting the remarkable work that earned these social innovators the $100,000 award.

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Laid Off and Forging an Encore

Recently we asked you to check out a column by New York Times columnist David Brooks, who asked for “a brief report on your life so far, an evaluation of what you did well, of what you did not so well and what you learned along the way.” (Read his column here.) We asked you to share your enc

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More on Entrepreneurs With a Social Mission

My colleagues and I have been working for the past 10 months with the research firm Penn Schoen Berland to investigate the potential for social entrepreneurship in boomers.

Research by the Kauffman Foundation has already shown that for 11 of the 15 years between 1996 and 2010, Americans between 55 and 64 had the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity of any age group.

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And the 2011 Purpose Prize Winners Are…

Some have called The Purpose Prize the “genius award for retirees.” This year's winners exemplify the spirit of the $100,000 award – the country's only large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of life.

The 2011 winners are:

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Tony La Russa's Encore Career?

On Monday morning, Tony La Russa retired as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. The announcement was made three days after his third trip to the World Series as a manager. So long, La Russa?

Not quite.

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David Brooks Asks for `a Gift' – Your Stories

We have an opportunity to tell millions about the benefits of encore careers, but we need your help.

David Brooks, a columnist at The New York Times, recently asked folks over 70 to send him “a gift.”

Here’s what he wrote:

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Obama Awards Purpose Prize Winners at the White House

Today President Obama honored an exclusive group of Americans who have lifted the lives of people struggling and suffering around the world.

Just 13 people received the Presidential Citizens Medal – a prestigious civilian honor second only to the Presidential Medal of Freedom – at a White House ceremony this afternoon.

And three of them are Purpose Prize winners.

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Oprah Winfrey Hails Purpose Prize Winners

Oprah Winfrey has her sights on two 2010 Purpose Prize winners. Margaret Gordon and Dana Freyer were recently showcased on Oprah.com for the extraordinary work they do in their encores.

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Nonprofits Offer Hope to Encore Career Seekers

Heard any good news about the job market lately?

I didn’t think so.

So here’s a bit of good news to hang on to: Idealist.org, a popular nonprofit jobs site, reports that most nonprofits are “cautiously optimistic” about hiring and believe the worst economic times may be over.

Early in 2011, Idealist reached out to thousands of organizations to see how they were dealing with “the financial crisis that hit our sector in the fall of 2008,” and to gauge their feelings about the future.

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LEARN ABOUT THE BIG SHIFT

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In his book – The Big Shift – Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman
argues that though we’re getting older, most of us are not getting old … at least not yet.
About the Big ShiftAbout Marc Freedman