Life Planning Network
The Life Planning Network (LPN) is a community of professionals from diverse fields who share a commitment to providing a broad spectrum of Life Planning services and resources for the Third Age. The Third Age is a life stage created by an extended life expectancy into the eighties and beyond – a time that represents new possibilities for living in fulfillment and purpose.
Life Planning consultants and other professionals provide structure, guidance and resources to their clients to rebalance or redirect their commitments and create fulfilling, productive and healthy lives. The Life Planning Network offers professional development, support and opportunities to create and shape the burgeoning field of Third Age Life Planning.
The Life Planning Network embodies the energy and power inherent in collective expertise, collaboration, learning and leadership. Members contribute, benefit and grow. LPN equips and mobilizes its members – working together and with strategic allies – to bring Third Age Life Planning into everyday use and to advance the cause of self and social renewal in the Third Age.
Members
 | David Bank, Civic Ventures |
 | Gene Burnard |
 | Jim Emerman, Director, The Purpose Prize and staff director for the Encore Leadership Network, Civic Ventures |
 | Judy Goggin, Civic Ventures |
News
Apr 7, 2008
NEW YORK TIMES: Your true calling could suit a nonprofit
Q. You’ve spent your career in a profit-making business but want your work to be more in line with your personal values… Is this the right reason to make a switch?
Eilene Zimmerman tackles this and other questions about encore transitions to the nonprofit sector in her “Career Couch” column in the New York Times.
In her answer, she quotes Steven Pascal-Joiner, midcareer transitions coordinator for Idealist.org. “It’s not enough to say, ‘I want to work for a nonprofit,’” he said. “You need to know what kind of organization you want to work for, the role you want to play and why.”
Feb 25, 2008
ELDER CARE ANGUISH: Trying Experience Turns Into Second Career
Julie Groshens is launching an Elder Care Expo in St. Paul, Minn., to make it easier to explore options for aging relatives.
Frustration with patching together care for her aging mother prompted one baby boomer to start a second job bringing together elder-care resources in one venue.
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Jan 27, 2008
MARC FREEDMAN in the WASHINGTON POST: "What work will boomers do?"
Velma Simpson. Photo by Alex Harris.
Marc Freedman, in a column in today’s Washington Post, takes issue with an Allstate ad exhorting Americans to save for 30 years of retirement.
“Millions of boomers are headed not for endless vacation but for a new stage of work, driven both by the desire to remain productive and the need to make ends meet over longer life spans,” Freedman, author of Encore, writes in the piece, “One More Time, With Meaning.”
That makes the central question, both for individuals and society at large, “What work will boomers do?”
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