The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Community College Encore Career Grants open doors for boomers who want their next chapter, or encore, to include a "purpose-driven job." Grants have been awarded to ten innovative community colleges that are creating new ways for adults 50+ to transition to "encore careers" in education, healthcare and social services - all sectors facing critical labor shortages.

The Encore Career Project will:

• Invest in innovation on community college campuses.
• Showcase the critical role community colleges can play in the lives of those in a new stage of life and work.
• Encourage community colleges and social sector employers to work together to unleash the potential of boomers as a new workforce for social change.
• Create a vanguard of cutting-edge community colleges preparing boomers for "encore careers."
• Catalyze change on other community college campuses.

The Community College Encore Career Project is sponsored by Civic Ventures - a think tank and incubator helping society achieve the greatest return on experience - and funded by the MetLife Foundation.