A more specific example, and maybe a best practice, is the CIC’s annual Community Cup. Based on the world’s most popular sport, soccer, with teams from a wide variety of newcomer and community groups, it’s a day full of family fun and mixing. There are games, music, beverages and lots of mingling as well.

The bottom line is engagement, contribution and reward. How can not-for-profit organizations tune those of us who are over 50 in and how can they turn us on, for their benefit and for ours? Visit the website and let the folks at Renaissance 50 Plus know.