America's Career InfoNet (part of CareerOneStop)
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/
America's Career InfoNet helps people make more informed career decisions. Check education, knowledge, skills and abilities, and licensing against requirements for most occupations. Search for employer contact information nationwide, cost of living data, and call up state profiles with labor market conditions. Find nearly 5,500 external links to the most extensive set of career resources available on the Internet.

Career One Stop
http://www.careeronestop.org
CareerOneStop is a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals to foster talent development in a global economy.

ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com
Curious about a specific city or town? One of the best sources is ePodunk, "the power of place." It profiles 46,000 cities, villages, towns, townships and podunks across America. A very fun, informative site.

GuideStar
http://www.guidestar.org
Database of 1.7 million nonprofits. Some free content and some paid premium content.

O*NET® (The Occupational Information Network) Career Exploration Tools
http://www.onetcenter.org/
http://www.onetcenter.org/tools.html
The O*NET program boasts (and rightly so) that it is "the nation's primary source of occupational information." Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) through a grant to the North Carolina Employment Security Commission.

U.S. Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov
Valuable resources for small businesses. Check to see if there is a District Office in your area that provides no- to low-cost training programs.


Helpful Organizations and Resources

Encore.org
http://www.encore.org
Encore.org is the growing network of individuals in the second half of life who are seeking encore careers that combine personal fulfillment, social impact and continued income. It is an initiative of Civic Ventures (www.civicventures.org), a think tank focused on boomer, work and social purpose.

Mary Furlong & Associates
http://www.maryfurlong.com
The leading expert in helping corporations, entrepreneurs and investors reach the boomer and senior markets.


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