Community Action & Volunteering

Helping organizations harness the power of older volunteers

Retirement in a rocking chair is not for today's older adults. They're healthier and better educated than any previous generation. And millions want to make a difference.

We're helping nonprofit organizations discover how to engage and empower older volunteers to solve critical social needs in the community. We're developing new models of service that nonprofit organizations can put into action.

How We Help

• Generations Helping Generations
  We're leading a national partnership to develop volunteer programs that help grandparents raising grandchildren, parents raising children with special needs, and caregivers of frail elders. See the model programs.
• Giving Older Volunteers Professional-Level Roles
  Millions of older volunteers have years of professional experience to put to use. But too many nonprofits aren't ready to use them to their fullest potential. Our RespectAbility initiative is finding new models that work. Read a series of issue briefs on this project. 
• Engaging Older Volunteers: Find Out How
  We sponsor the online Continuous Learning & Innovations Community. It's packed with people and resources to help you discover how to empower older volunteers to solve critical needs in your community. Get connected now.
• Putting Wisdom to Work
  By engaging older volunteers in self-directed teams, this program helps organizations attract new, younger senior volunteers. Discover how it works.  

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