If you ask me, there’s no better way to find meaning and purpose in retirement than by volunteering. And if you can do it alongside young people, even better. Richard Eisenberg shares his experience:
I’ve just come back from 2 ½ hours in 90° heat, lugging furniture, boxes and bags while volunteering for a wonderful Springfield, N.J., nonprofit called Furniture Assist.
At Furniture Assist, Yeomans, said, “we have volunteers from high schools and younger, we have adults who are trying to show their kids that not every kid has as nice a life as they do, and we have older people who just want to give back.” “Often, these two [groups] are so siloed,” says Eunice Lin Nichols, vice president of innovation at Encore.org, a nonprofit whose stated mission is to bring older and younger changemakers together to solve problems, bridge divides and cocreate the future.
And a 2020 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine discovered that people over 50 who volunteered more than 100 hours a year , had a reduced risk of mortality and physical functioning limitations, more optimism and purpose in life and less depression, hopelessness and loneliness than those who didn’t.
Ostrovsky also likes “watching all the families come in and the smiles on their faces when they take away the furniture they need.” Those words perfectly explain why Yeomans, a former computer systems designer, decided to start Furniture Assist in 2004, an outreach from his church, St. Luke All Saints, in Union, N.J.
Another comment Yeomans said he hears: “As soon as I get home, I’m going to throw all my stuff out because I’m not going to put my kids through what I just went through, cleaning up mom and dad’s house.”The first is VolunteerMatch, which even lets you filter opportunities for people 55-plus. “If you check the ‘good for fifty-five plus,’ that’s an organization that has said ‘We would love to have some older volunteers,’” Nichols noted.
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