The Big Boom: Is Your Organization Making Good Use of Boomer Volunteers?

The Big Boom: Is Your Organization Making Good Use of Boomer Volunteers?: "Nancy Froklage represents a new breed of retiree. At the leading edge of the Baby Boom, Froklage is like many of her peers — well-educated, opinionated, passionate and nowhere near ready to put her feet up. Rather than seeing retirement as the end to professional life, Boomers perceive it as a change point, an opportunity to move into new challenges, and sometimes into what has been called an encore career.

While Froklage’s process of finding meaningful post-retirement work involved trial and error — she tells of traveling to Istanbul for an interview only to remember how much she loathes travel, and about exploring a dolphin rescue where the cost of volunteering was astronomical — the nonprofit sector is also beginning to adjust in order to prepare for this new breed of volunteers."