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Civic Engagement in an Older America E-Newsletter November, 2007 CONTENTS • Regeneration: Recruiting Older Americans to Serve the Public Good • Serving America: A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade • A Guide to Sessions on Civic Engagement at the GSA's 2007 Annual Meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regeneration: Recruiting Older Americans to Serve the Public Good The Chronicle of Philanthropy is running a series of articles on
the growing movement to recruit older Americans to work or volunteer
for good causes. All the articles from the "Regeneration"
series are available for free on their web site. Click here
to view the archive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Serving America: A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade
This report from the Center for American Progress examines how
current national service programs meet community needs in education,
health and wellness, environmental conservation, poverty reduction
and more. It proposes several policies to grow national service
in order to solve some of America's most pressing problems. Click
here to read. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Guide to Sessions on
Civic Engagement at the GSA's 2007 Annual Meeting
GSA’s Annual Meeting features many papers, posters, and symposiums
on civic engagement in later life. Presented work will include “Social
Entrepreneurs in the Second Half of Life” (symposium on Saturday,
November 17), “A Cure for the Civic Engagement Blues: The Untapped
Potential of Area Agencies on Aging” (poster on Sunday, November
18), and “Older Workers and the Specter of Uselessness: Working
Later in a Changing Labor Market” (symposium on Monday, November
19). For a complete guide to conference sessions on older adults’
civic engagement (which includes presentation titles, authors’
names, date, time, and a brief description on how each session relates
to civic engagement), follow this link. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, will be signing copies of his new book Encore, Saturday, November 17th, 1:30pm - 3:00pm at the GSA Bookstore located in the Exhibit Hall (Grand Ballroom) of the Hilton San Francisco. Books can be purchased for $20-a 25% savings off list price! And don't miss Marc's presentation on Saturday morning (11:45 am - 1:15pm) in room: Yosemite A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The CE-Newsletter is the E-Newsletter of GSA’s Civic Engagement
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