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If You Mentor Me…

By Stefanie Weiss | Oct 10, 2017

Source: MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership It’s National Mentoring Month — time to celebrate the power of mentoring to change lives. Researchers have found that young people with mentors are: less likely to skip school less likely to start using...

A one-time prison warden shares the arts to transform young lives: Encore in the Christian Science Monitor

By Helen Zelon | Oct 5, 2017

Alexandreena Dixon left dance behind because she wanted to help people, especially those on the other side of the law. After a 38-year career with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, she still “saw too many black teens behind...

Meet Encore Fellows™ in Generation to Generation Work

By Mike Mowery | Sep 27, 2017

Gail Myers worked on behalf of adults and children in the Challenged Athletes Foundation. Bob Crum works with First 5 Santa Clara, recruiting partners and individuals to volunteer for the organization, focused on early childhood development. Bob is also...

Teaching Every Child to Love Books

By Stefanie Weiss | Sep 19, 2017

New Volunteer Toolkit Helps Adults 50+ Support Early Literacy Development Almost 60 percent of children from low-income families start kindergarten unprepared, lagging behind their peers in critical literacy skills. Research shows that simple, back-and-forth...

Who Made It to the Finals? Five Innovators Vie for Two $50,000 Encore Prizes

By Janet Oh | Sep 11, 2017

The 15 semifinalists for The Encore Prize: Generation to Generation Challenge all presented great ideas for bringing people over 50 into the lives of young people who need champions. With help from more than 12,000 voters — if you’re one, thank you! —...

$100,000 in Cash Prizes for Innovation Across Generations

By Janet Oh | Aug 7, 2017

How can we get more people over 50 engaged in the lives of young people who need more champions? Today, Encore.org announced 15 semi-finalists for The Encore Prize: Generation to Generation Challenge. Each of them has a great answer to that question. “Millions of kids...