Tag: Aging
Nonprofit Management
Transforming Society’s View of Retirement
A rapidly growing group of individuals are redefining their post-midlife years in ways that hold great potential for themselves and society. SSIR x Bridgespan series.
Technology & Design
Information Wants to Find People
The shift in consumer expectations and information-seeking behavior is demanding a response from social sector organizations.
Civil Society
Bridging the Generations
Older people and foster families are forming mutually supportive communities, with help from a group called Generations of Hope.
Nonprofits
Creating a Common Language for Cross-sector Collaboration
A framework for visualizing problems and a common language for talking about them can make all the difference.
Measuring Social Impact
Most Charities Shouldn’t Evaluate Their Work: Part Two
Who should measure what? Mind the gap.
Human Rights
Labor of Love
Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and 2014 McArthur genius grant recipient, is building a movement to improve the lives of 2.5 million US home care workers.
Government
New Option for Retirees
State-sponsored pensions for private sector employees aim to stem US retirement insecurity.
Nonprofit Management
Elderly Care and the Future of Social Innovation
Until successful new models for senior care are developed, all other forms of social innovation will be constricted.
Global Issues
Are You Ready for the Big Shift?
So many people in the stage of life after midlife and before true old age have so much experience, time, and capacity to do something significant.