The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The Transition From 'Golden Years' to 'Encore Careers': a Book Preview

Following are excerpts from Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, a book by Marc Freedman, founder of Civic Ventures, a San Francisco nonprofit organization. The book will be published this week by PublicAffairs.

For more than 50 years, we have treated older adults much the way we have treated farmers: Just as we pay farmers not to...

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