On November 17th I was privileged to be with Kathy and Amy Eldon in NYC for a Creative Visions Foundation event where I met Christiane Amanpour. To be a journalism teacher and to meet the ultimate journalist at CNN is one of the greatest treats of my life. It was covered by the Galveston Daily News and other newspapers in the Houston area.

“How am I ever going to learn a language at 59, live through winters with no heat and no water?” Eileen Marin (left) thought before she joined the Peace Corps and moved to Armenia two years ago. “Well,” says the former market research consultant and three-time cancer survivor, “it became my life very quickly.”

Baby boomers are fueling an increase in Peace Corps applications as economic uncertainty looms, President-elect Obama’s administration takes shape and a generation of retirees turns to overseas service in their encore careers, The Dallas Morning News reports.

Covalent Global Capital is a nonprofit developing to assist African-led charitable causes through a philanthropic innovation called micro-granting. Micro-granting refers to the individual connections of donors and African-led charities at a micro-level. We combine a culture-focused network of charities with strong and practical due diligence standards to allow donor advised funds and other philanthropic vehicles direct access to grassroots solutions in Africa.

By Steven Pascal-Joiner with Meg Busse. Action Without Borders, 2008
This essential resource for encore jobseekers outlines how to move from volunteering to rewarding nonprofit careers. Author Steven Pascal-Joiner digs into the differences between nonprofit work and jobs in other sectors, helping readers reframe their resumes and find meaningful employment. A free download is available at www.idealist.org. The print edition, $55.70, is available from Lulu.com.

Social Enterprise Alliance is an association of individuals and organizations building effective, sustainable nonprofits through earned-income strategies.

Stanford Center for Social Innovation is located at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The organization publishes the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

The How to Change the World Web site showcases the book How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein, a senior fellow at Civic Ventures.

The Purpose Prize, a project of Civic Ventures, awards five prizes of $100,000 and 10 awards of $10,000 for people over 60 who are taking on society’s biggest challenges and proving that creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation for the common good are not simply the province of the young.

By Laura Gassner Otting. Kaplan Publishing, 2007. This book provides an overview of the sector. The author is the head of the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Price: $16.95. Available online.

The NonProfit Times Annual Salary Survey lists salaries in the nonprofit world. Price: $24.95. Available online at http://shop.nptimes.com.