By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Nov 20, 2020
During her Encore Fellowship, Susan Nash will assist in the planning, facilitation, and coordination of Age-Friendly San Jose, a critical city initiative led by the City of San Jose Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services Department. Susan will provide critical...
By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Oct 7, 2020
Darlene Johnson is applying her wide-ranging skills in marketing, customer and partner engagement, project management and solutions engineering honed during her work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP and Compaq in her Encore Fellowship with Encore.org....
By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Oct 7, 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...
By Eunice Lin Nichols | Jun 11, 2019
Motivation I’ve always volunteered with organizations, different agencies within the community, but I wanted to do more. I wanted to be dedicated to a specific cause or initiative, and the Encore Fellowship program was the perfect avenue. Assignments I worked on...
By Sarah McKinney Gibson | Aug 11, 2020
The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) is a legacy organization and a key focal point for the Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles. Across its 40-year history, it has served as a galvanizing location for community programs as well as an arts...