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People Everywhere Are Working for the Greater Good in the Second Half of Life
Books from Civic Ventures authors
  • Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life
    Marc Freedman, President and Founder, Civic Ventures
    Public Affairs, 2007
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  • Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Reinvent Retirement and Revolutionize America
    Marc Freedman, President and Founder, Civic Ventures
    Public Affairs, 1999
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  • How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
    David Bornstein, Senior Fellow, Civic Ventures
    Oxford University Press, 2004
  • The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream
    Moen, Phyllis (Board member, Civic Ventures) and Patricia Roehling
    Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
Water Pitcher
What a waste

Dorothea Glass retired as chair of a medical school department and moved to the ocean. She approached a local hospital with the offer to put her decades of experience as a physician and medical executive to work – for free. The hosptial offered her a volunteer job filling water pitchters.


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