The New York Times: Employers Oversee an Army of Retiree Volunteers
THE day Alan Toney retired from Michelin North America he bought a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle and made a plan to ride on all seven continents. After nine years, only Antarctica remains on his bucket list. When Mr. Toney, 72, returned to his home in Greenville, S.C., though, a chance encounter with another Michelin retiree took [...]
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How Women Can Find Work at a Nonprofit
The other night, I had dinner with a friend who runs a nonprofit based in New York City. She’s in her late 50s and made the transition from a big-bucks financial industry post a few years ago. She loves her job. That said, my friend was a bit wiped out when we first sat down. [...]
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Nonprofits Are Hiring–But What Does This Job Pay?
The 2012 Idealist.org survey on nonprofit jobs landed in my inbox last week, and here’s what I found out. Some of it’s good–some plain annoying. More on that later. The folks at the nonprofit job board surveyed over 1,000 U.S.-based organizations and 3,000 active job seekers to find out: what types of groups are hiring [...]
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GREAT WAY FOR BOOMERS TO PREPARE FOR NONPROFIT WORK
Read Published Article The end of corporate retirement benefits is an old story. The rise of retirement benefits, well that’s worth some hoopla. Meet one contrarian company–Intel Corp. Today, Civic Ventures, a nonprofit think tank that focuses on boomers and encore careers with social purpose, announced a program with the Santa Clara, CA-based chip maker [...]
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