Del Mar Encore Fellows Initiative Seeks New Host Organizations

Del Mar Encore Fellows presenting at the Imagining Community Symposium.

The Dayton Foundation is offering up to seven area nonprofit organizations the opportunity to work with a Del Mar Encore Fellow, who can tackle a project that needs special skills or experience not currently available within an organization’s existing staff. The deadline to submit a Request for Proposal, located on The Dayton Foundation’s website, is Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 4 p.m.

Del Mar Encore Fellows are highly skilled, recently retired professionals, who bring a deep and broad skillset that can be deployed to work on high priority community and organizational needs. Since 2017, The Dayton Foundation has deployed a dozen older adults into the community to work as Del Mar Encore Fellows on significant community issues. Past Host Organizations have included the Area Agency on Aging, PSA 2; Brunner Literacy Center; Dayton Metro Library; Learn to Earn Dayton; Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging; NCCJ; Preschool Promise; and St. Mary Development Center.

Thanks to the Fellows’ work, inroads have been made in local efforts, including creating volunteer-led Homework Help programs at area library branches; increasing low-income seniors’ access to healthcare through technology; and researching challenges to building a stable home healthcare workforce. Because the Fellows come with a lifetime of experience and skills, they bring a wealth of additional resources to the Host Organizations.

For additional information, please contact Noreen Willhelm, Senior Fellow, at Noreen Willhelm or (937) 225-9949.