Civic Ventures and the Metlife Foundation announced a program of grants to community colleges to help foster training programs for Boomers interested in moving into health care and social services. Ten community colleges will each receive $25,000 grants. This is interesting because the huge network of community colleges across the U.S. could play a big role in training older adults for new careers. Civic Ventures also published a white paper outlining the opportunity, called “Encore Colleges.” The study notes a looming talent shortage in the public interest sector as boomers retire–but also points to data that “half of Americans in their 50s and 60s are interested in jobs that improve their communities–but [don’t] believe that finding such employment would be easy.”

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