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This 10-minute tutorial from the EnCorps collection of resources addresses how retirees represent fertile recruiting ground and how they can bring diverse work experiences and skills to your program.
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Using volunteers with high-level skills to help nonprofits adapt and grow is consistent with what current research describes about volunteering trends, particularly regarding baby boomers. ...
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Ask the Expert Archive
MAY 2006
Andrea S. Taylor, Ph.D., of Temple University's Center for Intergenerational Learning, in Philadelphia
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Attracting younger seniors to volunteer service
Building a community-wide service ethic through intergenerational service-learning
Communicating the joys of volunteering
Creating imaginative...
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Baby Boomers bring the advantages of experience and education, and are motivated to make a difference. There is tremendous potential to provide solutions to some of our most intractable social needs...
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Focus: Mobilizing Baby Boomers in Service
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For many in the baby boomer generation, retirement is seen as a second or new phase of life; these boomers are likely to change careers, explore new hobbies, and volunteer! This effective practice,...
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Each population of potential volunteers is unique in its approach to volunteering. Program alignment activities and outreach ideas for Millennials, Generation X, baby boomers, and Veterans should all...
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Knowing how to recruit the baby boomers — from motivation to marketing strategy — has been written about and studied in great detail. This effective practice, submitted by Temple University in April...
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Offering opportunities to capture the talents and experience of the baby boomers, and engaging them in the process of solving critical social issues through service, must become high priority goals...
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With support from Learn and Serve America, RSVP of Northern Arizona, headquartered at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, recruits baby boomers and assigns them to tutoring projects in local K-...
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Baby boomers represent a vast pool of potential volunteers. An eclectic group, one thing they share is that their approach to volunteering is considerably different from that of the previous...
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Besides being philanthropic, studies have shown that volunteering increases health and longevity. But the real virtue may be in the pleasures gained in the process — seeing a smile or...
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Includes an Intergenerational Community Service Planner and Tips for Recruiting Older Adults.
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Recruitment is a critical part of volunteer management, and an ongoing process even after a program is established. Data on baby boomers has already shown that when attempting volunteer outreach, it...
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Research suggests that for baby boomers aged 40 to 55 years, there is sufficient similarity in attitudes and characteristics to allow for the provision of a framework designed to encourage...
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The roles played by older adults in other aspects of their lives can be translated into effective recruitment strategies. The insights about these volunteers were generated from data provided by...
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There are 76 million baby boomers who are now beginning to reach retirement age. How can volunteer agencies effectively recruit this population? At the 2002 Senior Corps Conference in Salt Lake City...
