IMLS Western Regional FellowshipTransforming Life After 50

Portland, Oregon – September16, 2010

Encore Careers: Passion, Purpose

& a Paycheck

Leading-edge boomers are working longer

Even in the current economy, “giving back” is a strong motivator for many

New pathways are emerging for older adults to paid and unpaid roles with social impact

Nonprofits employers need help to prepare for the changes that are coming in the workforce

Fundamental trends

Half of all Americans age 50-70

want to do work that helps others

MetLife/Civic Ventures Encore Survey, 2007

What we know

Millions of jobs in:• health care and

social Therassistance

• educational services

• nonprofit community and religious organizations

• governmentAfter The Recovery, Bluestone and Melnick, 2010

What we know

By 2018 ~ millions of jobs in:• Healthcare• Social assistance• Education• Nonprofit organizations• Government

What we know

To fill these jobs, nonprofit employers

will need people 55 +to work at rates

much higher than expected.

After The Recovery, Bluestone and Melnick, 2010

“Adulthood simply goes on too long

without punctuation.”

Mary Catherine Bateson, Cultural Anthropologist

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Social Impact

Continued Income

Personal Meaning

Your Turn

• Do you know someone in an encore career?

• Are you in an encore career?

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The Encore Career FrameworkMillions of Encore

CareerSeekers

Fellowships

EducationTraining

Encore pathways: the missing link

Job matching

Social SectorEmployers

Experience

Service

Big Social Needs

ReServe: supplying skilled employees for dozens of NYC nonprofits & city agencies

Encore Job Matching

Encore Colleges

Portland Community College:Creating pathways for re-tooling

Encore Fellowsencore.org/fellowships

Leslye Louie and Lyle Hurst: Partners in School Innovation

Encore Service

The Kennedy Serve America Act 2009

Your Turn

Imagine your own encore career

Then ; Now

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What can libraries do?

• Build encore resources

• Become an encore community partner

• Provide technology access & training

Tempe Connections, AZtempeconnections.org

Model Library Programs

Discovering What’s Next, MADiscoveringwhatsnext.com

Contact Information

Judy GogginVice PresidentCivic Ventures

jgoggin@civicventures.org

www.encore.org

•There are tremendous challenges in our world today – and human talent is at the heart of solving these problems.

•There is an enormous source of largely untapped human talent in the people who have finished their midlife careers.

•Some form of “work,” not our parents’ volunteering, is most likely to appeal to most people and have the greatest potential impact.