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Wonderful, enlightening article on how boomers' characteristics will affect governing practices and decision-making, community building, volunteering, etc., Neil Howe, September 2012, Governing the states and localities magazine

"Older, wiser and a lot of them The world is on the cusp of a staggering rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600m to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth and "secular stagnation", while the swelling ranks of pensioners will bust government budgets. But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce."

article by Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes contributor, May 25, 2015, on 40% of the workforce working in "contingent" jobs as contractors, project employees, part-timers, on-call, agency temps, contract workers, etc. according to new GAO report.

Case study on scaling Encore Fellowships Networks, 2013 "These include getting network members to take responsibility for the network's long-term governance and sustainability, balancing the need for network-wide coordination with the need for local flexibility, and knowing how much growth and variation the network can handle at different points in its evolution and just how much is needed to achieve the organizers' social change objectives"

Baby Boomers and Volunteering, data from 2007 (old!). Makes interesting assertions such as volunteers in strategic planning, marketing, and volunteer management are more likely to volunteer from year to year.