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Community College Encore Career Project


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Overview *The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Community College Encore Career Project* is opening doors for boomers who want encore careers combining personal meaning, continued income, and social impact. The project: Invests in innovation on community college campuses. Showcases the critical role community colleges can play in the lives of those in a new stage of life and work. Encourages community colleges and social sector employers to work together to unleash the potential of boomers as a new workforce for social change. Creates a vanguard of cutting-edge community colleges preparing boomers for encore careers. Catalyzes change on other community college campuses. Community Colleges Win National Grant for Pioneering Programs to Retrain Boomers for Encore Careers Civic Ventures, a think tank on boomers, work, and social purpose, and MetLife Foundation awarded eight $25,000 Encore Career grants to community colleges preparing boomers for work for the greater good. The colleges were selected from a nationwide pool of 100 applicants for their innovative approaches to matching 50+ talent with social purpose jobs that fill specific workforce needs in health care, education, social services, and the environment. Read the press release >>

Many good paths

The transition to a next chapter can involve recycling, changing, or starting a career. A 30-year executive in advertising now teaches the subject at a local college. A Marine Corps brigadier general now runs an urban hunger relief program. An avid recreational biker now helps adults learn the importance of being active.

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