Research and Publications

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ENCORE CAREERS: THE PERSISTENCE OF PURPOSE

Encore.org’s 2014 research shows that the encore career trend is re-emerging with new resilience as the economy recovers from the downturn. Millions of people continue to want to use their experience to address big problems in their communities, the country and the world.

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New Roles, Few Rules: NonProfit Leaders Charting New Territory

New Roles, Few Rules, the third in a series of reports from the Life After Leadership Project, offers leaders who are leaving their executive positions a framework of hope for what their new life will look like without sugarcoating some of the risks and decisions along the way.

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The Encore Toolkit for Alumni Professionals

A guide to creating a panel for an alumni gathering to learn about encore careers.

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Laura Carstensen on Longevity

in this podcast, Laura Cartensen, head of the Stanford Longevity Center discusses the implications of adding decades to the middle of the life span.

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College for the Second Half of Life

In this article in Change, the Magazine of Higher Learning, Encore.org Founder Marc Freedman issues a call for higher education to create schools of the second half of life.

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