How to Survive Retirement by Steven D. Price

Author:Steven D. Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The National Parks Service offers volunteer opportunities in its four hundred parks: www.nps.gov/getinvolved/volunteer.htm. Another website shows the range of outdoors activities: www.volunteer.gov.

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Business Mentoring

Many retired executives who want to keep their hand in the world of commerce as well as lend a hand to new and established small businesses volunteer their time and expertise through SCORE, the organization formerly known as the “Service Corps of Retired Executives” but now calling itself “Counselors to America’s Small Business.” SCORE offers face-to-face mentoring sessions and also presents business workshops and seminars for a fee. In addition, “Ask SCORE” offers online counseling.

Mentoring services include developing business plans like promotion, publicity, advertising, and other marketing strategies. Financial planning includes long- and short-term borrowing, balance sheets, and cash flow charts. Where appropriate, discussions would involve manufacturing strategies both domestically and importing from abroad. The value of such assistance comes from mentors’ experiences of having “been there and done that”—clients profit from mentors’ successes and mistakes.

In SCORE, no mentor can be paid for any advice or other service, in order to protect clients from anyone who might become an advisor to get business leads. Clients who want to hire their mentors must wait until the guru resigns as a SCORE volunteer.

For details on becoming a mentor or becoming a client if you’re thinking about starting a new business, go to www.score.org.

Another matchup organization is MicroMentor, whose website asks specific questions about your entrepreneurial ambitions and then introduces you to what it considers to be your most suitable advisor: www.micromentor.org.

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Protecting the Interests of Children at Risk

CASA, or Court Appointed Special Advocates, is a network of 951 community-based programs that recruit, train, and support adults to provide support for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. Volunteer advocates, who are court-appointed, investigate each child’s history and situation in order to present the court with critical information with regard to the child’s rights and needs while in foster care. Volunteers remain on the case until the child is placed in suitable permanent homes. For information: www.casaforchildren.org/.

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Riding for the Handicapped

You don’t have to know which end of the horse gets the carrot to become a part of an equine therapy program for physically and emotionally challenged youngsters and adults with such challenges as muscular dystrophy, autism, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder. This program is more commonly known as Riding for the Handicapped.

All that’s required is a willingness to help such people expand their capabilities through mounted exercises. Activities take place at public and private riding stables in urban as well as suburban and rural locations. Volunteers typically serve as side-walkers, walking on each side of the horse to help keep the rider in the saddle while someone else leads the animal and the therapist works with the rider on specific exercises. Anyone who has volunteered or even just witnessed a session will appreciate the physical and emotional benefits and feel the rider’s joy of accomplishment.

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