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Redefining retirement in Portland to help the community
Steve Maser manages the Encore Fellows program for SVP Portland and recently shared his views in The Oregonian on how leveraging the experience of older adults helps solve Portland's social problems. Published: July 18, 2017
Encore Fellows™ In the News
One Encore Fellow, Bob Crum, confronts ageism and finds an Encore Fellowship helps him on the next step in his future. Encore Fellows bring years of valuable experience to social impact organization and the public sector. Read how The City of San Jose, CA utilizes...
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New Partnership: Encore Fellowships and Inspiring Capital
We're delighted to announce that Encore.org and Inspiring Capital are working together on an innovative pilot program in the New York metropolitan area, offering intergenerational teams of business talent to social impact organizations. The program consists of an...
EFN News: A Message from EFN Director Mike Mowery
In the last two years, under my leadership, the Encore Fellowships Network has truly proven itself to be a “killer app” for connecting Encore talent to opportunity. We have built the internal capacity to manage a significantly increased number of Encore Fellows; 2016...
A Salute to Janet (Lucie) Luce: Former Associate Director at Encore.org Prepares to Find Her Encore
As an Associate Director at Encore.org from 2008 to 2011, Lucie contributed to the design and launch of the Silicon Valley Encore Fellows Program and the Encore Fellowships Network (EFN). She worked as part of the team defining and implementing the model, and managed...
Spotlight: Encore Fellows™ Dr. Elisa Ross, Dennis Kucler: Cleveland Encore Fellows™ Making Meaningful Impact on the Next Generation
Dr. Elisa Ross, a board-certified OB/GYN, spent decades as a physician at the Cleveland Clinics. Joining the Neighborhood Family Practice, which provides high-quality, affordable health services in some of Cleveland’s highest-risk neighborhoods, she was asked to...
A Warm Welcome (Home) to Stefanie Weiss
It's a pleasure to welcome Stef Weiss to Encore.org in her new role as Generation to Generation's Strategic Communications Director. She will lead communications strategy and narrative change for the Gen2Gen campaign, and work with Marc Freedman on his upcoming book....
Encore Fellowships Network Expands to Boulder County, Colorado
We are pleased to announce our newest Program for Encore Fellowships, Social Venture Partners, Boulder County, the fifth Social Venture Partners chapter to work with Encore to utilize Encore Fellowships as a component of their engaged philanthropy strategy. Social...
Nurturing Purpose Beyond the Self in Older Adults
This article was written by Anne Colby and Jim Emerman. The Pathways to Encore Purpose (PEP) project is a collaboration between the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Encore.org. The project began with a nationally representative survey of nearly 1,200 adults,...