Creating leadership roles for older adults can help strengthen organizations and communities.

Discover practical reports, tools, and Webinars designed to help community groups and organizations create and sustain significant leadership, management and technical roles for older adults that strengthen their own capacity and effectiveness.

NCOA Reports:

• Guiding Principles in Adult 55+ Civic Engagement (pdf file): Information on how nonprofit leaders can capitalize on the resources of adults 55+.
• Innovation and Capacity Building Issue Briefs: Innovative practices for harnessing and measuring the power of older adults to address social problems.
  • RespectAbility (pdf file)
  • Partnerships (pdf file)
  • The Power of Professional Volunteers (pdf file)
  • Capturing the Attention of the 55+ Professional (pdf file)
  • Are Leadership Volunteers Worth the Investment? (pdf file)
• Profiles of the Most Promising Initiatives Engaging Adults 55+ (pdf file): Highlights the approaches that 34 organizations used to achieve success.
• RespectAbility in America: Promising Practices in Civic Engagement among Adults 55+ (pdf file): Shares what is working and how among local initiatives.
• Organizational Barriers to Adult 55+ Engagement: Research that queried leaders of 19 national nonprofits.
  • In-Depth Interviews with National Non-Profit CEOs (pdf file)
  • National Non-Profit Leadership Focus Group Report (pdf file)
  • National Non-Profit Leadership Web Survey Report (pdf file)

Tools:

• Continuous Learning and Innovations Community (CLIC): An online community where you can connect with others interested in enabling older adults to address critical community needs.
• Strategic Measurement and Results Tracking System (SMART): Tool to evaluate non-profits’ efforts to engage and manage 55+ adults in leadership and professional roles.

Webinars:

• Boomer Engagement
  • Recorded Presentation
• Civic Engagement: An Emerging Strategy for Organizational Development and Meeting Critical Human Needs: Defines civic engagement and outlines its opportunities.
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• Creating Change for Tomorrow Today: Explains creative thinking--and how to apply it in organizations
  • Webinar Materials
• Moving Volunteers from Ordinary to Extraordinary: Discusses basics of volunteer administration, designs for service, agency responsibilities, and boomers' expectations.
  • Webinar Materials
• Organizational Culture Change
  • "Culture Matters," an article on organizational culture change
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Recorded Presentation
• Plugging The Leaky Bucket: Why Social Leaders Are Losing Over $30 Billion a Year and How They Can Reinvent Volunteer Talent and Thrive
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Recorded Presentation
• Understanding Differences in Non-Profit and For-Profit Organizations
  • Recorded Presentation
• Work & Civic Engagement in Arizona
  • Recorded Presentation
• Value of Partnerships
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Recorded Presentation