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Civic Ventures
— looking backward, planning forward | | Author(s) | W Andrew Achenbaum |
| Journal title | Public Policy & Aging Report, vol 16, no 4, Fall 2006 |
| Publisher | National Academy on an Aging Society, Fall 2006 |
| Pages | pp 9-12 |
| Source | http://www.agingsociety.org |
| Keywords | Voluntary agencies ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This brief article describes one of the more recent voluntary associations in America to become prominent amongst older American volunteers. Founded a decade ago by social entrepreneurs John Gardner (former president of the Carnegie Corporation and HEW secretary under Lyndon Johnson) and Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures frames its ideas about retirement and social capital into programmes that are capturing many older Americans into civic engagement. It has developed strong links with a diverse number of other prominent American organisations, for example Experience Corps to offer a wide programme of opportunities. This article is critical the organisation, as taking a too conservative and traditional view of volunteerism and relying on the tenets of productive ageing, thereby excluding segments of the population group unable to participate. If it is to continue to appeal to the Baby Boomer generation, Civic Ventures may need to reassess its ideological foundations. (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-070508229 A |
| Classmark | PK: GHH: 7T |
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