The Kindness of Strangers tells the story of a group of concerned adults who mentor inner-city youth. It describes what volunteers can do to ameliorate the conditions of young people living in poverty. It chronicles the rise of the mentoring movement and examines its wider implications for education and social policy. Based on interviews with over 300 mentors, young people, scholars, and youth workers, The Kindness of Strangers takes a hard look at mentoring and asks some critical questions: How much can mentoring really accomplish? What does it take to be a successful mentor? What makes the difference between an effective program and one fraught with difficulties? Marc Freedman brings experience, research, and realism to these questions in an effort to present the truth about the mentoring movement sweeping America today. This revised edition contains a new introduction that highlights research that has been conducted since the original publication of the book in 1993. Marc Freedman is President of Civic Ventures, a research and development organization based in Berkeley, California. He has studied education and social policy for more than a decade and prior to starting Civic Ventures he was director of special projects for Public/Private Ventures, an organization focused on helping young people in poverty.

The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism

Business & Money

Freedman, Marc

Job Hunting & Careers

Cambridge University Press

How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations

Using this helpful book, learn how the secret to happiness and longevity can be found through mentoring the next generation.\nIn How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much longer, what is the meaning of the increasing years beyond 50? How can a society with more older people than younger ones thrive? How do we find happiness when we know life is long and time is short?\nIn a poignant book that defies categorization, Freedman finds insights by exploring purpose and generativity, digging into the drive for longevity and the perils of age segregation, and talking to social innovators across the globe bringing the generations together for mutual benefit. He finds wisdom in stories from young and old, featuring ordinary people and icons like jazz great Clark Terry and basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.\nBut the answers also come from stories of Freedman's own mentors—a sawmill worker turned surrogate grandparent, a university administrator who served as Einstein's driver, a cabinet secretary who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the gym teacher who was Freedman's father.\nHow to Live Forever is a deeply personal call to find fulfillment and happiness in our longer lives by connecting with the next generation and forging a legacy of love that lives beyond us.

Parenting & Relationships

PublicAffairs

The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generation In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much longer, what is the meaning of the increasing years beyond 50? How can a society with more older people than younger ones thrive? How do we find happiness when we know life is long and time is short? In a poignant book that defies categorization, Freedman finds insights by exploring purpose and generativity, digging into the drive for longevity and the perils of age segregation, and talking to social innovators across the globe bringing the generations together for mutual benefit. He finds wisdom in stories from young and old, featuring ordinary people and icons like jazz great Clark Terry and basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But the answers also come from stories of Freedman's own mentors-a sawmill worker turned surrogate grandparent, a university administrator who served as Einstein's driver, a cabinet secretary who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the gym teacher who was Freedman's father. How to Live Forever is a deeply personal call to find fulfillment and happiness in our longer lives by connecting with the next generation and forging a legacy of love that lives beyond us.

The Kindness of Strangers takes a hard, realistic look at mentoring while offering a vivid portrayal of the mentoring movement and how ordinary citizens in cities across America are trying to turn young lives around.

The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Jossey-Bass

Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer than childhood or middle age in duration, and one spent in unprecedented good health. Yet, as individuals, and as a society, we've shown little imagination or wisdom in using this great gift of a third age. Marc Freedman identifies the new longevity as not a problem to be solved, but an opportunity to be seized-provided we can engage the experience, talent, and idealism of older Americans. At a juncture when the middle-generation faces a time-famine, struggling to simultaneously raise kids and work long hours on the job, the older generation is awash in free time, poised to succeed women as the trustees of civic life in this country. In the process they stand to find new meaning and purpose in their lives, and abandon the limbo-like state unfulfilling for so many older individuals. Freedman argues that the aging phenomenon, the massive transformation that many portray as our downfall, may in fact be our best hope for renewal as a nation.

Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement And Transform America

In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women's movement, members of the baby boom generation are inventing a new phase of work.
Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next thirty years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. As they search for a calling in the second half of life and focus on what matters most, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America. They also hold the potential to create a society that balances the joys and responsibilities of contribution across the generations—in other words, one that works better for all of us.

Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life

The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as “the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are – an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years.
In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society when, in reality, most of the nation’s 78 million boomers are not getting old … at least not yet. The whole 60- to 80-year-old period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people in this period constitute a whole new phenomenon in the 21st century.
The Big Shiftis animated by a simple premise: that the challenge of transitioning to and making the most of this new stage—while deeply personal—is much more than an individual problem; it’s an urgent social imperative, one affecting all generations. By embracing this time as a unique period of life – and providing guidance, training, education and support to the millions who are in it – Freedman says that we can make a monument out of what so many think of as the leftover years. The result could be a windfall of talent that will carry us toward a new generation of solutions for growing problems in areas like education, the environment, and health care.

Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” offers a recipe for how we can transform America's coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are searching for answers to the question What's next?” and are navigating their way to an entirely new stage of life and work, one that could last as long as midlife. Shifting to a much longer lifespan isn't as easy as it may seem. Unlike the transition from adolescence to adulthood, managing this process for many is a do-it-yourself project. Drawing on powerful personal stories, The Big Shift provides not only direction but a vision of what it would take to help millions find their footing in a new map of life.

In Prime Time, Marc Freedman introduces us to older adults who are making the most of the last third of their lives: as volunteers teaching children; as part-time medical staff serving low income families; as vital members of their communities. By recounting the history of retirement in America, introducing us to an inspiring group of older Americans, and describing with warmth and humor how they have made a difference - in others lives as well as their own - Freedman lays the groundwork for a restructuring of American society.

Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America

A retirement plan should never leave you so confused that you're relegated to a state of paralysis. After all, who wants to feel like an "idiot" or a "dummy"? Introducing Retiring with Confidence for the GENIUS, a modern-day blueprint on preparing for, and enjoying, your life in retirement. Retiring with Confidence for the GENIUS was written specifically for those who: <ul>
<li>seek to spend between $4,000 and $10,000 per month in retirement;</li> <li>need to get their financial house in order;</li> <li>have a net worth (including their home) of between $500,000 and $2.5 million;</li> <li>worry about taxes, medical costs, and spending money in retirement;</li> <li>wonder whether their investments are properly positioned for retirement.</li> </ul>
Unlike retirement planning books that are crammed with academic facts, statistics, and charts, Retiring with Confidence for the GENIUS is different. It's written in down-to-earth prose by a second-generation CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional who has spent more than two decades providing financial advice to people just like you. If now's the time to get your financial house in order, the whimsical, easy-to-read writing style in Retiring with Confidence for the GENIUS will be a great companion for your retirement. Summary of book contents: Part 1: Building the Foundation for a Successful Retirement Chapter 1: What Is Retirement Planning Anyway? Chapter 2: Crafting a Successful Retirement Plan Chapter 3: Getting Your Financial House in Order Chapter 4: Where Does All the Money Go? Chapter 5: Are Your Assets Owned Properly? Chapter 6: Making the Most of Your Retirement Plan Chapter 7: Investments for the Genius Chapter 8: Investing in Mutual Funds Chapter 9: Income-Based Investments Retirees Consider Chapter 10: Preparing to Invest Like a Genius Part 2: This Is NOT Your Parent's Retirement—Advice and Instructions for Today's Retiree Chapter 11: Retiring—Could It Be the Biggest Decision of Your Life? Chapter 12: Retirement—Time to Get Messy Chapter 13: Social Security—It Impacts Everyone! Chapter 14: Pensions and the Secret Millionaire Chapter 15: Understanding Taxes in Retirement Chapter 16: Maximizing Your Money in Retirement Chapter 17: Ideas on Drawing Income to Meet Your Spending Needs Chapter 18: IRA Distributions—Managing Yours and Those You Inherit Part 3: The Elephant in the Room—Issues Retirees Can No Longer Ignore Chapter 19: Where Will You Live in Retirement? Chapter 20: What Keeps You Up at Night? Chapter 21: Should Probate Be Feared? Can It Be Avoided? Chapter 22: All Good Things Must Come to an End Part 4: Tools, Templates, and Time-Tested Advice Chapter 23: Ideas to Ignite Your Retirement Plan Chapter 24: Advice for Geniuses on Finding an Adviser Who Makes Sense for You Chapter 25: The Most Important Question of All For the GENIUS Books Since this is a For the GENIUS® book, it is down to earth and pragmatic. It is written in an upbeat, conversational style that you'll instantly connect with. You'll find the many stories and sidebars sprinkled throughout especially helpful and relevant. This and all For the GENIUS books are written as comprehensive guides to complex subjects for beginners as well as for those seeking a refresher. You don't have to be a genius to read one, but you'll sure be smarter once you do!™

Retiring with Confidence for the GENIUS

Investing

For the GENIUS Press

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The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism

How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations

How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations

The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism

Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement And Transform America

Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life

The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America

Retiring with Confidence for the GENIUS