Encore Fellowships Archives

This Encore Fellow is helping a nonprofit serve 60,000 children a year

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Jan 25, 2022

Helping Mamas provides essential baby items and period products to women and children in need throughout the state of Georgia and in Knoxville, TN. The nonprofit was started in 2014 by Jamie Lackey, a social worker who saw moms use plastic grocery store bags as...

Encore Physicians help community health clinics deliver care, while mentoring younger colleagues

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Jul 7, 2021

Bay Area pilot proves successful. Emphasis now is on expansion. The problem: Too many Americans don’t have health insurance or are under-insured. The Federally Qualified Health Centers (FHQCs) that deliver care to this population are often understaffed and seek...

Encore Fellow develops an age-friendly action plan for the City of San José

By Susan Nash | Mar 10, 2021

San José had become an age-friendly city back in 2016, but they needed someone to help them prepare an age-friendly action plan. It seemed like an interesting way to leverage my research and interviewing skills while focusing on older people. I spent 35 years in law,...

He’d never considered the nonprofit sector. Now he doesn’t want to leave.

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Feb 15, 2021

David Pfeifer brought decades of experience running small and mid-size businesses to Futures and Options last year when he joined the team as an Encore Fellow — a seasoned professional paid a stipend to work at a nonprofit for 3 to 12 months. When his fellowship...

These nonprofit leaders knew how to get through a tough year

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Feb 11, 2021

This Black History Month, we’re shining a light on three Black leaders who found an innovative, cost-effective way to help their nonprofits adapt in the early days of the pandemic and cope during the heightened days of racial reckoning. All three leveraged Encore...

For this Encore Fellow, the reward comes from both learning and teaching

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Jan 7, 2021

Kathleen Kostrzewa brought corporate IT and business development experience — plus age diversity — to the EnCorps STEM Teachers Program last year, when she joined the team as an Encore Fellow. “Kathy has decades of experience and offers our team sage advice and a...