The Innovative Program Making Retirees Eager to Volunteer

After Mike McGeeney, 70, worked 38 years for Kansas City Power & Light Company, he retired and then moved with his wife in 2017 to Springfield, Mo. to be closer to their kids and grandkids. Like many retirees, he got to thinking about how he could make the world a better place. “Getting older, I felt I have had a pretty good life and now is a time to give back,” McGeeney says. But he didn’t know where, or how, to do it.

Until he heard about Give 5. It’s an innovative, two-year-old program in the Springfield area that lets retirees (or near-retirees) see firsthand where the needs are, and then helps them volunteer...

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