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Transcript of Goggin: Encore Careers
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
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.