Art and Activism, Stitch by Stitch

The latest Encore.org story featured by our media partner The Christian Science Monitor profiles Nedra Bonds, who creates “quilts with a message.” Bonds, a retired educator and social worker, started quilting at age six. But in the 1980s, when a controversial landfill...

Wise Aging: Joy and Resilience in the Encore Years

Rabbi Rachel Cowan and Dr. Linda Thal have written a new book, “Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience and Spirit” (available here), that challenges readers to question preconceived notions of aging and ask what it truly means to live a life of connection and...

The Mentoring Moment

In a new blog post for the Harvard Business Review, Eisner Foundation CEO Trent Stamp and I wonder if life can imitate art — and if society can learn to take advantage of the longevity revolution and the innate strengths of multigenerational relationships to...