USA Today Recognizes Growing Encore Movement

From coast to coast, encore careers have arrived. In an extraordinary front-page story, USA Today explores what it calls a national, “growing `encore careers’ movement.” The movement, reporter Richard Wolf writes, “has spawned nonprofit groups and programs from Boston...

Prize Offers Hope to Age-Obsessed Britons

From across the pond comes word that Britons are just as obsessed about aging as Americans. After age 50, they enter an “identify void,” writes Geraldine Bedell in The Telegraph.They are “shunted off our television screens and expected to ‘move...

Lots of Buzz for This Year’s
Purpose Prize Awards!

It’s been a thrilling day around Encore.org. This morning we announced the 2014 Purpose Prize Winners – six changemakers over the age of 60 who are showing that there’s no age limit on innovation and improving the world. Get inspired by reading about them and watching...