Volunteer Boom

Attention baby boomers! Instead of obsessing over how you're about to turn 60 and the economy (not to mention the operations of the federal government) won't survive when you retire, the Corporation for National and Community Service has another suggestion for you: Become a volunteer. To get things started, the agency announced at the White House Conference on Aging yesterday that it would award $3.9 million in "challenge grants" to six national nonprofit organizations to engage baby boomers to help in hurricane relief efforts.