Encore in the Media and Other News
In our newest StoryCorps share, a once-homeless veteran thanks the retired barber who donates haircuts to help turn vets’ lives around.
Olympic champion Michael Phelps offers an encore career lesson for all of us, Rich Eisenberg tells Next Avenue readers, and goes on to describe how we can use our experience to help improve the lives of children.
We’re called to be many things during our lives, our VP Marci Alboher tells Holy Holy Podcast, explaining why people all over the world are embracing the concept of the “slash career.”
Great news to share: This week, the Encore Fellowships Network hit a major milestone, completing its 1000th match of Encore Fellows since the program’s debut in 2009. Congrats to all of our EFN program operators, fellows and alumni who together have enabled encore talent to create over $100M in social sector impact, and to the EFN team — Mike Mowery, Janet Shaw, Gina Casinelli and Reggie Duhe — on their hard work.
And another congrats to EnCorps, a recipient of US2020’s 2016 STEM Mentoring Award for their Excellence in Volunteer Experience!
Our board member David Bornstein’s New York Times series describes how communities change for the better when local citizens work together in smarter ways.
In her encore, Purpose Prize winner Belle Mickelson helps to prevent suicide and drug abuse among youth in remote Alaskan villages by connecting them to music.
Check out the new book Third Calling — which includes an endorsement from our CEO Marc Freedman — to understand why our bonus years are a gift to be stewarded wisely, creatively and intentionally.
ICYMI: SF friends, get your tickets now for the 6th Annual Legacy Film Festival on Aging, September 16-18, 2016. It’s the only 3-day festival uniquely devoted to films on aging.
What We’re Reading (and Watching)
Marci Alboher: Too Old for Hard Labor, but Still on the Job
Not enough on blue collar older workers. Tks for this @cfarrellecon https://t.co/eNq6Fp1Yal
— marci alboher (@heymarci) August 14, 2016
Michelle Hynes: Why American Schools Are Even More Unequal Than We Thought
Important read for all of us who talk about student poverty stats! https://t.co/OXLuVEyB9u
— Michelle Hynes (@MHynesPDX) August 16, 2016
Encore.org’s Social Action Pick of the Week
62 million girls around the world are currently not in school — but technology can help change that. In support of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let Girls Learn initiative, the #BUILTBYGIRLS Challenge is a tech-focused, girls-only pitch competition that seeks ideas for solutions using technology to help girls around the world get an education. Learn more here.
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