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volunteer again? Getting the urge to Volunteer Corps Participant, Ghana. H Max Join the AJWS Volunteer Corps Open to individuals who are Jewish with expertise to share for two to twelve months. For more information: 800.889.7146 www.ajws.org/service Cambodia Dominican Republic El Salvador Ghana Guatemala Honduras India Mexico Nicaragua Peru Senegal South Africa Thailand Uganda Master of New Professional Studies: Peace Operations Study theory and practice of peace operations, international civilian police operations, nongovernmental organizations, elections, refugees/internally displaced persons, governance, and culture with world-renowned scholars and practitioners at one of the nation’s leading schools of Public Policy. Join us in an environment that encourages discussion and nourishes ideas. Our program is small enough to offer you an individual experience and large enough to be distinguished! • 39-credit hours—night classes • Affordable costs • Conveniently located in Arlington, Virginia • Accepting applications for fall 2007 To ﬁnd out more, please contact: Dr. Allison Frendak-Blume afrendak@gmu.edu or 703-993-4983 14 Fall 2007 Now, Alma Powell is chairing the Promise campaign, and, at 81, I am the spokesman for e Experience Wave, focusing on the other end of the spectrum–older Americans, and especially the boomer generation as it moves, in unprecedented numbers, into the years of traditional retirement. But the programs mesh since millions of the mentors being sought will be older Americans. Supported by e Atlantic Philanthropies, e Experience Wave is an energetic campaign to promote state and federal policies that will help tap the talent, knowledge and time of the boomer generation and help them engage in work of their choice, civic life and service. Will we see the wave of older Americans–those whose generation rose out of the post-World War II surge of new births and our increasing longevity–as a danger or as an opportunity? So far, most of the talk has been about the threat to Social Security and burden on the younger generation. We hope, instead, to show policy-makers–and our fellow citizens– that the aging of America is a great chance to tap the experience of older Americans on a scale never seen before. Once again in our political history this is a time when states can take the lead and become laboratories for democracy. is spring, the lawmakers and governors of New York and Maryland have pointed the way to initiate appropriate state planning processes. In New York, the legislature authorized a Mature Worker Task Force and in Maryland the legislature passed and the governor signed, with enthusiastic comment, the Baby Boomer Initiative Act. If we are lucky, other states and the Congress will follow suit, and the President will use his bully pulpit to turn the inevitable growing wave of aging boomers into a Wave of Experience that will help us solve some of our society’s most critical social problems. Harris Woﬀord’s extensive public service career includes directing the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962 to 1964. He is the author of Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. http://www.ajws.org/service http://www.ajws.org/service

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Worldview Magazine - Fall 2007

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