Experience Matters is a 501(c)(3) organization that works to create opportunities for meaningful work and service by experienced individuals transitioning from their midlife for-profit careers into high impact nonprofit work. The organization’s Encore Fellows program, which launched in 2011, provides a stipend to each Encore Fellow, who works for up to 12 months with a nonprofit organization. The Lodestar Foundation provided funds for initial curriculum development and marketing of the program.