All Research Reports
Encore Fellowships Brochure
Promotional brochure explaining the Encore Fellowsâ„¢ Program
Evaluation of the 2009 Silicon Valley Encore Fellowsâ„¢ Pilot
External evaluator’s report of the 2009 Silicon Valley Encore Fellows™ Pilot, by the LFA Group.
How Boomers Can Contribute to Student Success: Emerging Encore Opportunities in K-12 Education
In this 2010 whit paper, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future identifies emerging jobs, including teacher coaches and content advisers, that represent promising opportunities to encore workers.
Boomers Can Help the Nation Go Green
In this 2010 white paper, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning reveals how the green economy must tap existing talent to grow quickly and suggests that certain emerging jobs offer promising opportunities to experienced workers.
How Boomers Can Help Improve Health Care: Emerging Encore Career Opportunities in Health Care
In this 2010 white paste, Partners in Care Foundation identifies six emerging jobs for experienced workers that have the potential to improve health outcomes, such as community health workers and chronic illness coaches.
After the Recovery: Help Needed; The Coming Labor Shortage and How People in Encore Careers Can Help Solve It
As surprising as it sounds, 2010 research from MetLife Foundation and Encore.org projected there would be more jobs than people to fill them by 2018. This report asserts that engaging workers over 55 in encore careers will be vital to meeting workforce shortages and…
Senate Finance Committee Testimony of Marc Freedman
In 2010, Marc Freedman testified before the Senate Finance Committee on policies that could accelerate the connection of people seeking encore careers with work that has impact on our country’s biggest problems.
Encore Opportunity Awards of 2009: Tapping the Passion and Experience of Workers over 50
This report tells the stories of the winners of the 2009 Encore Opportunity Award (formerly the BreakThrough Award), which honors organizations making it easier for experienced workers to transition into encore careers.
Crossing Generations: Retooling Nonprofit Organizations
This report explores topics discussed at a 2009 meeting of nonprofit leaders convened by Encore.org and the Building Movement Project, and made possible by MetLife Foundation. The participants explored strategies to attract and retain a multigenerational…
2008 Encore Career Survey
The results of this 2008 survey, sponsored by MetLife Foundation and Encore.org and conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, found that between 5.3 million and 8.4 million Americans ages 44 to 70, up to 9.5 percent of people in that age group, are already in…