“My Encore Fellowship experience at Aspiranet was very rewarding. I knew I wanted to get involved in social purpose work when I left publishing but found the transition process quite daunting. Once I was selected as an Encore Fellow the path became clear “and more fruitful than I could have imagined.”
Allen was a member of the inaugural Silicon Valley Encore Fellowships program. Utilizing his prior executive experience in small business management, marketing and publishing, Scott explored avenues for developing an Encore CA job-matching business. Leveraging his Aspiranet Encore Fellow experience, he now serves as a Friend of the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center and has helped launch the Montecito Historical Archives, a new nonprofit in the Santa Barbara area.