Wall Street Journal, USA Today Detail Intel Encore Endeavor

By | Nov 23, 2011

Since yesterday’s announcement that Intel has become the first company to offer Encore Fellowships to all of its U.S. employees approaching retirement, major media have shown major interest. The Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark says companies such as Intel...

Encore Entrepreneurs: Creating Jobs, Meeting Needs

By | Nov 4, 2011

Mix a slow economy and a shortage of jobs with a large number of aging boomers looking for meaning and purpose in their work. The result is a growing number of “encore entrepreneurs”? seeking to launch income-generating ventures that make a positive...

Nonprofit Launches Own Internal Encore Fellows™ Program

By | Oct 13, 2011

For more than 35 years, Aspiranet has been dedicated to creating permanent, lifelong connections for children and families located in California. After two years hosting Encore Fellows™ in the Silicon Valley EF program, Aspiranet has launched its own internal...

Steve Jobs’ Message for Boomers

By | Oct 7, 2011

I will remember Steve Jobs not for product design, but for life design. In the commencement address Jobs gave to Stanford undergraduates in 2005, he recounts reading a quote at 17 that said if you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll almost...

What Is Retirement, Anyway?

By | Oct 7, 2011

That’s the question NPR asked a few days ago, in the final segment of a series they called Life in Retirement: The Not-So-Golden Years. Here’s my answer: Retirements that promise 30 or 40 years of leisure are no longer sustainable for individuals or...

Suit Up and Play Again

By | Oct 7, 2011

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...