Private sector organizations, such as Chicago's Executive Service Corps. For 16 years, the ESC has been recruiting retirees and using their expertise and contacts to help nonprofit organizations and government agencies solve their problems. Its dominant form of consultation is in the development of boards of directors. The ESC understands that a good board member plays a major role in policy-making, and many are rich or have rich friends, adding favorably to fundraising as a board's top job. In 1992 alone, the organization says 400 of its consultants donated 56,000 hours to helping 320 organizations in the Chicago area.
Seniors contribute heavily to building America.
Volunteerism is vitally important to our growth and survival. Seniors make great volunteers. Age should not be a consideration when cultivating a good board member.