{"id":2041,"date":"2014-05-28T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:15:00","slug":"link-between-charity-and-baby-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/05\/28\/link-between-charity-and-baby-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Link between charity and baby boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the publication of \u2018<a title=\"Report entitled 'Age of Opportunity - putting the ageing society of tomorrow on the agenda of the voluntary sector today'\" href=\"http:\/\/cvsanpc.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/age-of-opportunity-april14.pdf\">Age of Opportunity<\/a> \u2013 putting the ageing society of tomorrow on the agenda of the voluntary sector today\u2019 by the Commission on the Voluntary Sector and Aging, <a title=\"Dr Hogg's profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/research-assistants\/hogg-eddy.html\">Dr Eddy Hogg<\/a> of the <a title=\"Centre for Philanthropy website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/philanthropy\/index.html\">Centre for Philanthropy<\/a> says that his own research shows that the \u2018baby boomer\u2019 generation can bring great value to charities \u2013 as long as the voluntary sector understands how to engage with them.\u00a0 He explains, \u201cThe baby boomers who are retiring now are not only the largest group of retirees we have ever seen, they are also the healthiest. Volunteering is one of a wide range of activities that people might take part in at this stage of life, either as a new activity or a continuation of a lifetime of community engagement.\u201d Working with Age UK, Dr Hogg has researched how volunteering undertaken by older adults relates to their volunteering and other work activities across their life course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the publication of \u2018Age of Opportunity \u2013 putting the ageing society of tomorrow on the agenda of the voluntary sector today\u2019 by the Commission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/05\/28\/link-between-charity-and-baby-boomers\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124,139996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}