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Three Encore Fellows™ at Community Tech Network

By Encore.org | Oct 7, 2020

The following post was written by Community Tech Network. Over the past two years, Community Tech Network (CTN) has proudly participated in the San Francisco Bay Area Encore Fellows™ Program. This unique opportunity matches highly skilled, experienced...

The Voices We Need Now: Announcing the new Encore Public Voices Fellows

By Marci Alboher | Oct 5, 2020

Three years ago, Encore.org partnered with The OpEd Project and Encore.org Senior Advisor Ann MacDougall to create the Encore Public Voices Fellowship. The Fellowship is part of The OpEd Project’s national Public Voices initiative to change who writes history. And...

SMASH helps change students’ lives. Working there changed his.

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Oct 5, 2020

Andy Arenberg was at a crossroads in his professional life. After 35 years handling strategy and marketing in the financial services sector, he craved a different experience. He was reading The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50, and thinking more about a...

Fashion industry veteran helps a social venture pivot during pandemic

By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Sep 25, 2020

Rabia Farhang wasn’t looking to retire at 56. But after decades of working in the corporate fashion industry, she knew it was time for something different. “I wanted to take my business skills and apply them to work I was more passionate about,” she says. She’d...

Announcing the new Gen2Gen Innovation Fellows

By Eunice Lin Nichols | Sep 22, 2020

These 15 innovators, ranging in age from 19 to 75, are bringing generations together to fight social isolation, even the playing field for youth, create stronger cities and more affordable housing, strengthen the multigenerational workforce, and so much more. Somehow...

6 takeaways from a boomer on OK Boomer, Let’s Talk

By Stefanie Weiss | Sep 16, 2020

A new book on the tension between boomers and millennials is required reading for those eager to bridge generational divides. Millennial journalist and author Jill Filipovic is mad as hell and, it turns out, with good reason. Her new book, OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How...