AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps people 50+ improve the quality of their lives.

• Employers and the older worker
• Managing a multigenerational workforce
• Why hiring older people is a good idea

AARP Experience Corps pairs older adults with children in grades K-3 to promote literacy.

• Experience Corps research

AARP Life Reimagined is an online tool to explore work and life options and imagine what’s next.

• Life Reimagined Institute

• Tools for work to feel more rewarded and fulfilled by your career.

• Work reimagined: Uncover your calling

All for Good, a service of Points of Light, connects nonprofits with volunteers.

Boardsource is dedicated to advancing the public good by building exceptional nonprofit boards and inspiring board service.

• Board recruitment center

Bridgespan is a nonprofit advisor and resource for mission-driven organizations and philanthropists.

• Assessing candidate fit

• Board recruiting

• Considerations and success factors in hiring a “bridger”

• Guide for nonprofits when hiring senior managers

• Hiring a bridger – interview guide

• Hiring nonprofit leaders

• Nonprofit CEO transition resource center

• Nonprofit job center

• Transferable skills from the for-profit sector

• Writing job descriptions

The Building Movement Project develops research, tools, training materials and opportunities for partnership that bolster nonprofit organizations.

• The new lifecycle of work – long-term nonprofit leaders prepare for their future

Career One-Stop is a Department of Labor-sponsored resource for career exploration, training and jobs.

Coming of Age is a national initiative to help individuals 50+ connect and contribute to their communities and to help organizations best use the skills of those 50 and older. This link provides access to:  

• Organizational needs assessment worksheet
• Strategies for recruiting encore talent 
• Tips on engaging capacity building volunteers
• Worksheet on developing a compelling encore opportunity

Commongood Careers provides nonprofits with innovative recruitment solutions that result in faster and better hires.

• In-demand skills in social sector

• Transferable skills

Common Impact partners with companies and nonprofit organizations to create transformational change.  

• Measuring the results: the business case for skills-based volunteerism 

• Skilled-volunteering 101

Community Experience Partnership helps communities explore, plan and implement an older adult–led change strategy.

• Building community by bringing generations together

• Older adults are leading change

• Road map: an interactive model for planning an older adult-led community change strategy

• The greatest (and most under-appreciated) generation

The Conference Board is a global, independent business membership and research association working in the public interest to provide the world’s leading organizations with practical knowledge to improve performance and better serve society. 

• A perfect match (key findings)
• Boomers are ready for nonprofits but are nonprofits ready for them? 
• Second acts in prime time

The Human Capital Exchange is a “one-stop” resource for human capital professionals around the world.

The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that helps more than 5 million Americans improve the lives of their fellow citizens through service.

• Volunteer management

DataKind recruits volunteer data experts to help nonprofits measure outcomes and use data to make better decisions.  

Encore Boston Network leads a coalition of Greater Boston organizations and professionals dedicated to strengthening communities by engaging the talents of people in midlife and beyond.

• Job descriptions

Encore.org is a national nonprofit that is building a movement to tap the skills and experience of those in midlife and beyond to improve communities and the world.

• Building momentum for encore careers: broad appeal, raising interest, diminishing concerns
• Doing good by doing well: encore fellows build nonprofits’ capacity to serve children and youth (by Boston College Center on Aging and Work)
• Encore careers: the persistence of purpose
• Encore entrepreneurs: creating jobs, meeting needs
• Innovations in encore
• New roles, few rules: planning for purpose beyond position
• Stories from the encore movement 
• The encore impact project: a study of encore talent at work
• Video: Marc Freedman on encore careers

The Encore Fellowships Network creates paid, time-limited, high-impact social-purpose roles though support and collaboration with a national network of program operators, work hosts and corporations.

• Doing good by doing well: encore fellows build nonprofits’ capacity to serve children and youth (by Boston College Center on Aging and Work)
• Encore fellows program directory 
• HR people + strategy: In First Person articles by Marci Alboher and Marc Freedman
• Learning for action: evaluation of the Silicon Valley encore fellows pilot
• Stanford Social Innovation Review: scaling the encore fellowships network

Experience Matters connects the skills and talents of experienced adults with the diverse needs of nonprofit organizations to build a stronger, more vibrant community in Maricopa County, AZ.

• Onboarding checklist for encore fellows

• Story gallery

• Video: impact of encore talent 

The Foundation Center is the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide.

• Working with a technical assistance provider

Hands On Network’s mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes the world.

• Skills-based volunteering initiative pro bono services
• Skills-based volunteering tutorial
• Take root: volunteer management guide
• Volunteers vs, paid employees

The HR Council takes action on nonprofit labor issues as a convener, catalyst and research instigator.

• HR toolkit
• Workplaces that work: staff-volunteer relations

Idealist.org connects people with opportunities to do good through action and collaboration. 

• 5 ways volunteering can help you find a job and advance your career

JFFixler Group brings together a talented and experienced team of professional independent contractors who contribute their combined expertise to the development of organizations.

• Boomer volunteer engagement workbook

• Principles of volunteer engagement

• Tools and strategies for boomer volunteer engagement

LinkedIn for Nonprofits helps organizations recruit employees, volunteers, board members and donors through its extensive database of professionals

• LinkedIn for nonprofits webinar

• Recruitment tips

• Volunteer posting examples

MAVA provides an engaging forum for people involved in the field of volunteerism across the state of Minnesota.

• Toolkit for recruiting and supporting job-seeking volunteers

The National Council of Nonprofits is a central coordinator and mobilizer to help nonprofits achieve greater collective impact in local communities across the country.

• Nonprofit career center
• 2015-2016 – the years in (p)review 

Nonprofit Quarterly features news and stories relevant to nonprofit leaders, foundations, educators and others, operating as an independent print and digital news source.

• Ensuring a successful consulting engagement

Nonprofit Risk Management Center provides reliable advice and practical help on risk issues.

• Volunteer or employee: do you know the difference?

O-Net is a Department of Labor site offering information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities and interests associated with over 900 occupations.

• O-NET toolkit for business

The Pinellas VIP site offers volunteer opportunities and resources for Pinellas County, FL, residents.

• Good to know – volunteer in Pinellas

• Volunteer handbook

Points of Light mobilizes millions of people to take action and change the world.

• Corporate Institute

• Corporate Volunteer Council

• Creating a strong skills-based volunteer program

The Readiness Roadmap helps organizations navigate skills-based volunteering. It was created by a nonprofit collaborative, consisting of Points of Light, the Taproot Foundation, and Common Impact, which was convened by Capital One.

• Organizational readiness assessment

• Organizational readiness – consultant role description

• Project readiness checklist

• Project-specific readiness checklist

Retirement Jobs offers jobs and job search resources for people over 50, including a growing number of nonprofit/encore jobs.

• Nonprofit jobs for people age 50+

Senior Corps links more than 270,000 Americans age 55 and up to service opportunities.

• Foster Grandparent Program

• Impact videos

• Resources for Senior Corps programs

• RSVP

• Senior Companion Program

SHRM is the world’s largest HR membership organization devoted to human resource management.

• Aging workforce research initiative

• Preparing for an aging workforce

Strengthening Nonprofits features e-learning and guidebook resources to help nonprofits build capacity. It was created as a resource for National Resource Center to support Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) grantees.

• Volunteer recruitment and management
• Working with consultants

Taproot Foundation is a nonprofit organization that makes business talent available to organizations working to improve society.

• Capacity building coach
• Getting started with pro bono
• Manage pro bono projects
• Nonprofit human resources best practices toolkit
• Scope pro bono projects

The University of Washington Encore Initiative guides UW retirees toward UW-related and community encore-career opportunities.

Unretirement is a book and a podcast hosted by journalist Chris Farrell that focuses on a grassroots movement reimagining the second half of life. The podcast is produced by American Public Media.

Volunteer Maine is a catalyst that helps to solve challenges faced by Maine’s volunteer sector, by addressing professional development, sustainability, volunteer recruitment and technical assistance.

• Motivational analysis

Volunteer Match is a volunteer engagement network supporting thousands of nonprofits, network partners and individuals.

• 7 ways to appreciate your volunteers