The Get Started Guide offers expert advice, tips and success stories about how to pursue encore careers in education, health care, government and the environment.
The results of this 2008 survey, sponsored by MetLife Foundation and Encore.org and conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, found that between 5.3 million and 8.4 million Americans ages 44 to 70, up to 9.5 percent of people in that age group, are already in encore careers.
The grassroots youth service movement of the 1980s, recognized by a federal commission on national service, offers lessons for a commission focused on service by boomers.
This Conference Board report, sponsored by Encore.org, focuses on the impact boomer retirements will have on the stability, growth and potential of the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits that understand the needs and value of experienced employees will be more successful in tapping into this talent source.
This report profiles the winners of the 2007 BreakThrough Award, sponsored by MetLife Foundation and Encore.org, which recognizes nonprofit and public sector organizations providing meaningful public interest jobs for people over 50. (In 2009, the award became known as the Encore Opportunity Awards.)