WHCOA and the Quality of a Long Life

At 70, I’m on the national agenda — along with the 10,000 people who are turning 65 every day. I was in high school during the first White House Conference on Aging, around the same time that JFK challenged us to “ask not what your country can do for you...

Encore Careers For Nonprofit Leaders

How long-term non-profit CEOs and other non-profit leaders handle their own retirement is an act of leadership in itself but one that’s often neglected by the sector’s approach to leadership development and training. A recent report, “The New Cycle...

Encores for Nonprofit Leaders?

What’s next for long-term nonprofit founders and leaders who have devoted their working lives to solving social problems? That’s the focus of a survey featured this week in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. “Virtually all of the people in the study,...

Suit Up and Play Again

Bill Clinton announced his candidacy for president 20 years ago this month. At an anniversary reunion in Little Rock last weekend, Clinton challenged the crowd, full of people who had worked in his campaign and administration, with a call to action. While he said we...