by Phyllis Segal | Jul 18, 2019
One presidential hopeful has a service proposal to unite generations I’ve been studying the candidates running for president, searching for ideas they have to bring us together as a nation. As a former board member of the federal Corporation for National and...
by Stefanie Weiss | Jul 16, 2019
How can nonprofits tap a new and growing source of talent — people over 50 — to improve the lives of the children and youth they serve? To help answer the question, nine youth-serving nonprofits — all members of the Alliance for Strong Families and...
by Anne O'Hagan | Jun 26, 2019
Five p.m. on a Tuesday, mid-winter. I’m sitting in the basement of St. Cyril’s Macedonian Orthodox Church in Regent Park in downtown Toronto. Teenagers drift in – by turns chatty, solemn, effusive, shy. Quickly they shed their coats to colonize the bare beat-up tables...
by Andy Levine | Jun 20, 2019
Time Magazine’s 2019 “100 Most Influential People” List includes Lady Gaga, Donald Trump, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Dwayne Johnson. And it also includes Desmond Meade. In 2005, Desmond Meade had three strikes against him. He was homeless. He was a drug addict....
by Cal J. Halvorsen and the 2018 Encore Public Voices Fellows | May 30, 2019
We are a group of twenty from across the country, our common goal to refine, focus, and elevate our voices on the implications of an aging society—essentially, to change our aging narrative from one of decline to one of inspiration and growth. We are the first class...
by Andy Levine | May 23, 2019
As she approached her 49th birthday, Amy Yontef-McGrath found herself in a bit of a funk. She loved her job as a stay-at-home mom for the past two decades. But her children were getting older and starting to leave the nest. And it was clear that she needed something...
