The Encore Careers campaign aims to engage millions of boomers in encore careers, providing personal fulfillment, continued income, and an opportunity to meet the needs of our communities. Learn more at www.encore.org and join the campaign.

Organizational Resources

• American Association of Community Colleges, Plus 50 Initiative, a three-year effort to create or expand campus programs to engage the 50+ population in learning; training/re-training programs; and/or volunteer, civic and service activities. The initiative is funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies.

• American Council on Education, Reinvesting in the Third Age: Older Adults and Higher Education, a two-year research project to examine how colleges and universities can more effectively address the factors that drive older adults to postsecondary education to broaden their participation and work with other sectors to meet older adults' educational needs.  The initiative is funded by the MetLife Foundation.

• Civic Ventures, Community College Encore Career Project, a special MetLife Foundation initiative to advance innovative community college pathways to encore careers. Reports from this project include:
• Pathways to Encore Careers: How 10 Community Colleges Are Preparing Boomers for Work in Education, Health Care and Social Services. MetLife Foundation and Civic Ventures: 2008.
• Encore Colleges, by David Bank. Civic Ventures/Met Life Foundation: August 2007.

Publications

• 50 Plus Learners Find Passion Through Encore Careers[PDF]. by Marc Freedman. Community College Journal. June/July 2008.
• Boomers Go to College: A Report on the Survey of Students 40 and Older Conducted by the Portland Community College Taskforce on Aging [PDF]. Portland Community College: February 28, 2007 (Draft report for comment and review).
• The Boomers Guide to Good Work, by Ellen Freudenhein. Civic Ventures: 2005.
• Community Colleges as Pathways to Significant Service for Post-Midlife Adults. Civic Ventures: May 31, 2006.
• Community Colleges Want You, by Elizabeth Olson. New York Times. October 24, 2006.
• Encore Colleges, by David Bank. Civic Ventures/Met Life Foundation: August 2007.
• Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, by Marc Freedman. Public Affairs: 2007.
• Framing New Terrain: Older Adults & Higher Education.  American Council on Education: October 2007. 
• Mapping New Directions: Older Adults in Higher Education. American Council on Education: November 2008.
• Metlife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey. Civic Ventures: 2008.
• MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures New Face of Work Survey. Civic Ventures: June 2005.
• MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Survey of Nonprofit Employers: Tapping Encore Talent. Civic Ventures: October 2008.
• More to Give: Tapping the Talents of the Baby Boomer, Silent and Greatest Generations. AARP: September 2008.
• Our Next Chapter: Community Colleges and the Aging Baby Boomers, by Judy Goggin and Bernie Ronan. League for Innovation in the Community College: Leadership Abstracts, November 2004, Volume 17, Number 11.
• The Role of Community Colleges in an Aging Society, by Linda Wiener. AARP Office of Academic Affairs: September 2007.
• More Civic Ventures' publications and recommended reading can be found through the Publications pull-down menu bar, above.