Civic Ventures’ Encore Careers Project campaign aims to engage millions of boomers in encore careers – combining personal meaning, continued income, and social impact – to produce a windfall of human talent to solve society’s greatest problems. 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 website’s publications and resources are essential reading for colleges planning to serve the 50+ adult learners.
• 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.
• Civic Ventures’ Community College Encore Career Initiative is a national effort 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).
• Get Started Guide. Civic Ventures: 2009 http://www.encore.org/find/guide.
• 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: 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.
• The Role of Community Colleges in an Aging Society, by Linda Wiener. AARP Office of Academic Affairs: September 2007.
• Plus 50 Business Community Outreach Toolkit. American Association of Community Colleges, November 17, 2009.
• Plus 50 Needs Assessment Toolkit. American Association of Community Colleges, October 2, 2009.
• Plus 50 Students: Tapping Into a Growing Market
  American Association of Community Colleges, March, 2009.