New York Times, USA Today and Others Praise Big Shift

By | May 3, 2011

With a 14-city book tour underway, Marc Freedman is spreading the word about a new stage of life between midlife and old age. And while he’s attracting attention from boomers searching for meaning during that stage, he’s also gaining interest from national...

Forbes Examines Encore Careers for Boomers

By | Mar 24, 2011

In its upcoming April 11 issue, Forbes magazine focuses on boomers “Writing New Chapters.” Journalist and author Kerry Hannon introduces us to people who abandoned “the retirement fantasy of gardening, golfing and lounging on the beach” in favor of meaningful work....

Book Review: Project Renewment ‘Charming, Practical’

By | Feb 21, 2011

I loved the attitude and no-nonsense practical advice of Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women, so I got on the phone and tried to reach the book’s authors, Bernice Bratter and Helen Dennis. There we were – three longtime career women with...

Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers

By | Jan 21, 2011

We asked if you had questions, and you most certainly did! We can’t answer all of them, so we picked the ones that were asked many times or the ones that raised the most universal issues. Barbara Chandler Allen, a 2010 Purpose Prize winner, who founded and runs a...

Courtney Martin: A New Generation of Activists

By | Jan 18, 2011

Editor’s Note: Courtney Martin is the author of Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists. She speaks to her generation in her writings and her blogs on Feministing.com, (“young feminists blogging, organizing, kicking ass”). And she speaks about her...