Experience Works helps low-income seniors, with multiple barriers to employment, get the training they need to find good jobs in their local communities.
Experience Works is a national, charitable, community-based organization. Originally named Green Thumb, and chartered in 1965 as a small, rural demonstration program, Experience Works has grown to be the nation’s leading provider of training, employment, and community service for low-income older people.
Our Mission:
Improve the lives of older people through employment, community service and training.
Our Strengths:
Assisting employers to take full advantage of the talents of older workers
Helping older people who are low income or at risk of becoming low income.
Using community service as a path to employment.
Building strong relationships in local communities. Addressing the challenges facing older people in rural America.
Our Beliefs:
Older people should have an opportunity to learn new skills and contribute to their community throughout their lives.
Employers who hire, train and retain older workers will be most successful.
People who are productive and active throughout their lives will have better health, increased longevity, and a more positive impact on their community.
Our Leadership:
Board of Directors:
Chairman Phillip Klutts, Oklahoma Ruth Ann Wefald, Kansas Dr. Charles N. Toftoy, Virginia Benedict Weissenrieder, Ohio Doug Anderton, Georgia
