Results List
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Insights on Reinventing Retirement
18 Jun 2008 Original Source By Marci Alboher A new survey conducted by Civic Ventures and the MetLife Foundation shows that the idea of reinventing retirement is not just something that people talk about, but is something they are already doing. The survey – which…
Author: The New York Times
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Greedy geezers? Try wellspring of talent
Community colleges court baby boomers searching for new career training Original Source By MARC PARRY, Staff writer TROY — For Hope Melton, a public health professional, retirement felt like falling off a cliff. The 67-year-old from Saratoga Springs thought of pursuing a Ph.D., but that…
Author: Times Union
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Encore --- In Search of a Purpose: Marc Freedman thinks 'encore careers' can help baby boomers -- and the country
With retirement for many Americans now expected to stretch out 20 or 30 years, the question arises: How best to fill that time? Perhaps the answer is an “encore career.” That’s the hope of Marc Freedman, founder and chief executive officer of Civic Ventures, a…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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Wanted: Unsung Heroes
Wanted: Unsung heroes Excerpt: The new Purpose Prize is intended to inspire Americans to use their experience for the greater good as they approach retirement, said prize director Jim Emerman. “Our ideal candidates are unsung heroes who are making a social contribution after midlife and…
Author: Dallas Morning News
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Risk with Vision: Placing Informed 'Big Bets'
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Philanthropy and risk are not natural bedfellows. For most of us philanthropy invokes an impression of measured resolution, gravity and thoughtfulness. Philanthropy makes considered interventions into areas of society that are not delivering on rights or opportunity…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Warren Buffett Honors His Hero, the Billionaire Who Secretly Gave It All Away
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates share a common hero, the under-the-radar philanthropist Chuck Feeney. By Dan Alexander Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are the two most iconic philanthropists in the world, having given away tens of billions to much fanfare. But their role model is…
Author: Forbes
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Commentary: Minority execs ready to step up and lead
Original Source The Bridgespan Group and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. By John RiceSpecial to CNN Editor’s note: John Rice is founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a New York-based national nonprofit organization seeking to develop “the next generation of African…
Author: CNN
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The Perfect Storm
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Author: The Nation
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The second wave of giving will roll on
Original Source By Sean Stannard-Stockton Between the dismal economy, crashing financial markets and the Madoff scandal it would be natural to assume that philanthropy was out for the count. But while these difficulties might take the wind out of the sector’s sails for a while,…
Author: Financial Times
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Way to Grow
Charities use business practices to rapidly expand their programs Harlem Children’s Zone, in New York City, works with 10,000 children a year, up from just 1,500 in 1990 – and it plans to grow by another 50 percent in the next four years. Teach for…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy