Other Opportunities To Get Involved
If Experience Corps is not in your city, consider contacting other
community engagement agencies in your community, such as those listed below.
VolunteerMatch
VolunteerMatch is “dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to
volunteer.” Interested volunteers can enter their zip code on the VolunteerMatch
home page to quickly find local volunteer opportunities posted by nonprofit organizations
throughout the United States.
America's Promise
America's Promise—The Alliance for Youth, led by General Colin Powell,
is dedicated to mobilizing individuals, groups, and organizations from every
part of American life to build and strengthen the character and competence of
our youth. To point children and young people in the right direction, to help
them grow up strong and ready to take their place as successful adults, these
five promises must be fulfilled: an ongoing relationship with a caring adult — parent,
mentor, tutor, or coach; a safe place with structured activities during non-school
hours; a healthy start; a marketable skill through effective education; and an
opportunity to give back through community service.
The Center for Intergenerational
Learning at Temple University
The Center for Intergenerational Learning at Temple University is dedicated to strengthening communities by
bringing generations together to meet the needs of individuals and families throughout
the life cycle. Established in 1979, the Center:
- Creates opportunities for youth and elders to contribute to their communities
- Promotes partnerships among organizations serving young people, families, and older adults
- Helps organizations integrate intergenerational approaches into their program services
- Informs educators, human service practitioners, and policy-makers about the impact of intergenerational strategies.
The Corporation
for National Service
The Corporation for National Service (CNS) works with community
organizations to provide opportunities for Americans of all ages
to serve. CNS serves as the umbrella for a number of national
service programs, including AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps VISTA, Learn
and Serve America, and the National Senior Service Corps (NSSC).
In addition, through NSSC, CNS operates Seniors for Schools and
the Experience Corps® for Independent Living (in collaboration
with AARP), which use the Experience Corps® model.
Elderhostel
Elderhostel is a nonprofit organization providing educational
adventures all over the world to adults aged 55 and over. Elderhostel
experiences include educational trips, university- and college-based
Institutes for Learning in Retirement, and Elderhostel Service
Programs, engaging teams of hostelers in short-term volunteer
projects in the United States and around the world.
The Environmental Alliance for
Senior Involvement
The Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement's (EASI) mission
is to promote in senior Americans an environmental ethic that
results in the expansion of their knowledge, commitment, and
active involvement in protecting and caring for our environment
for present and future generations. The Senior Environment Corps
is EASI's national organization that links seniors across the
country to achieve sustainable communities.
The
Executive Service Corps
The Executive Service Corps (ESC) is an association of retired
business executives who volunteer their time to consult with
nonprofit and public service agencies. ESC consultants provide
advisory services in a variety of areas such as accounting, budgeting
and finance, planning, marketing, public relations, personnel
administration, board development and governance, organizational
systems, and facilities management. There is a network of more
than 40 ESC organizations across the country.
Generations of Hope
Generations of Hope (formerly Hope for the Children) started
in 1994 to provide secure, nurturing adoptive families and caring
intergenerational communities for foster-care children when no
other option for permanency is available. Generations of Hope
is a licensed foster care and adoption agency located in Rantoul,
Illinois. Hope Meadows is its first planned community, housed
in a closed military base. Generations of Hope offers salaries
for stay-at-home parents, on-site staff and therapists, weekly
training and one-on-one support for families, and rent subsidies
for seniors in exchange for volunteer work. In July 1997, Ronald
McDonald House Charities awarded Hope for the Children a nearly
$8 million grant to replicate its intergenerational neighborhood
model of care in six new places.
Generations United
Generations United is a national organization focused on promoting
intergenerational strategies, programs, and policies. It includes
more than 185 national, state, and local organizations representing
more than 70 million Americans and serves as an advocate for
the mutual well-being of children, youth, and older adults. Generations
United also works to educate policymakers and the public about
the economic, social, and personal imperatives of intergenerational
cooperation.
Habitat for Humanity
Founded in 1976, Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit,
ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating
substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making
adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Habitat invites people from all faiths and walks of life to work
together in partnership, building houses with families in need.
National Retiree Volunteer Coalition
The National Retiree Volunteer Coalition (NRVC) is a nonprofit
consulting organization dedicated to creating a national movement
of corporate retiree volunteer leadership and service. NRVC's
unique method for mobilizing retirees to lives of community leadership
and service is the Corporate Retiree Volunteer Program. Under
the banner of their former employer, retirees with diverse backgrounds
and interests combine their skills and experience to tackle pressing
community needs, such as education, youth-at-risk, community
revitalization, environmental concerns, and public health.
North Carolina Center
for Creative Retirement
Established in 1988 as an integral part of the University of
North Carolina at Asheville, the North Carolina Center for Creative
Retirement (NCCCR) has the threefold purpose of promoting lifelong
learning, leadership, and community service opportunities for
retirement-aged individuals.
Peace Corps
In 1964, only 2 percent of Peace Corps volunteers were people
over the age of 50. Today, almost 7 percent are over 50 years
old with more than 400 seniors currently serving overseas as
Peace Corps volunteers. Twenty percent of all senior volunteers
are serving as married couples, compared to 7 percent for volunteers
under the age of 50. Senior volunteers work in all skill sectors
but are most concentrated in education and business. There are
11 regional recruiting offices around the country.
Points of Light Foundation
The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National
Network engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are
helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities.
Based in Washington, DC the Foundation works to to engage more
people and resources more effectively in volunteer service to
help solve serious social problems through a network of more
than 330 Volunteer Centers throughout America. To find a volunteer
opportunity nearest you, call 1-800-VOLUNTEER or visit the web
site at www.1-800-Volunteer.org.
To volunteer to help with disaster recovery, please register
at HelpinDisaster.org.
PrimeTime
The goal of the PrimeTime program is to register retiree volunteers
as PrimeTime Members and match them with specific volunteer opportunities
that will make the most of their unique experiences and skills.
PrimeTime LAUSD is a partnership of the Los Angeles Unified School
District and The Sherry Lansing Foundation. By strategically
matching uniquely experienced retiree members with specific needs
in Los Angeles public schools, PrimeTime LAUSD reaches and directly
benefits more children and families than would be possible by
any other means. The PrimeTime programs were inspired by Civic
Ventures founder and CEO Mark Freedman's book entitled Prime
Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform
America.
Princeton Project 55
Princeton Project 55 is a non-partisan, nonprofit tax-exempt
organization established by the Class of 1955 at Princeton University.
PP55 was born of the realization that there is a vast untapped
resource available for the public good among groups of college
alumni. PP55 also works with other classes of Princeton alumni
and with alumni groups from other colleges and universities such
as Bucknell, Dartmouth, Moravian, Smith, and Williams.
Project RE-SEED
Project RE-SEED recruits
and trains retired technical people and places them in middle school
classrooms to help the science teacher with demonstrations and
experiments in physical science.
SCORE
The SCORE Association (Service Corps of Retired Executives) is
dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth,
and success of small business nationwide. SCORE is a resource
partner with the Small Business Association (SBA). SCORE Association
volunteers serve as "Counselors to America's Small Business." Working
and retired executives and business owners donate their time
and expertise as volunteer business counselors and provide confidential
counseling and mentoring free of charge. Local chapters provide
free counseling and low-cost workshops in their communities.
Temple University Center
for Intergenerational Learning
The Center for Intergenerational Learning at Temple University
was created in 1980 to foster intergenerational cooperation and
exchange. Through the development of innovative cross-age programs,
the provision of training and technical assistance, and the dissemination
of materials, the Center serves as a national resource for intergenerational
programming.
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
Tutor/Mentor Connection serves as an intermediary linking tutor/mentor programs in the
Chicago region with potential volunteers, donors, business partners and with
training and ideas that any program or volunteer can use to develop more effective
practices.
Volunteers in Medicine
The Volunteers In Medicine (VIM) Clinics provide free medical
and dental services to families and individuals who otherwise
have no access to health care. The clinics are fully staffed
by retired medical professionals, currently practicing volunteers,
community volunteers, and a small number of paid staff. Founded
in Hilton Head, South Carolina, clinics are now operating in
many communities.