64% of Virginia business leaders feel that the impending retirement of a large number of workers in the future is a serious issue for the economy. Source: 2008 Older Dominion Project Business Leaders' Study
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Member Profiles
Name: Nancy Stutts
Title: Executive Director; Assistant Professor
Company/Organization: ConnectNetwork; Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
ODP Member Since: January 15, 2009
ODP Committee Affiliation: Civic Engagement
Summarize your professional background relevant to Age Wave preparedness.
Ph.D., public policy, with 20 years of experience that includes inventing a Web-based system of locally based and driven networks that unites citizens for social action; nonprofit communications and program development; evaluation and documentation research; community building; teaching; and developing university civic engagement.
What expertise or other strengths do you bring to the Older Dominion Partnership?
Research experience and public policy and social change background in addition to communications and information sharing tools that reach citizens, nonprofits, businesses and government agencies in three Virginia regions.
What do you believe are the most pressing issues in Age Wave-preparedness in Virginia today?
Lack of social infrastructure to utilize talents, and respond to challenges, of older adults.
What advice do you have for age wave planning in Virginia?
I see great promise in the approach the ODP is taking.