Results List
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2007 Purpose Prize winner featured on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer
Please use the link below to access a segment featuring 2007 Purpose Prize Fellow on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. This segment ran on September 17 and features Ammie Jenkins, founder of the Sandhills Family Heritage Association, which helps preserve black family-owned land and culture.…
Author: Newshour with Jim Lehrer
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Civic Ventures Announces National Initiative to Invest in Social Entrepreneurs Who Lead with Experience
Initiative Draws Attention to ‘Immense Untapped Resource’ – Americans in the Second Half of Life Eager to Make Social Contribution – For Immediate Release – December 1, 2005 Contact: Anne Purdy (415) 901-0111 Fenton Communications apurdy@fenton.com Stefanie Weiss (202) 478-6151 sweiss@experiencecorps.org Five Over 60 Will…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Five $100,000 Purpose Prizes Awarded to Americans Making an Extraordinary Impact in their Encore Careers
2011 Winners Work to Create Jobs, Fight Climate Change, Help Immigrants in the U.S. and Improve the Lives of Orphans, Women and Children in China, Latin America SAN FRANCISCO – Civic Ventures today announced the 2011 winners of its Purpose Prize. Five social entrepreneurs over 60…
Author: Civic Ventures
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President Highlights Innovative Community Solutions
Original Source President Obama will meet today with social innovators, including a half-dozen winners of The Purpose Prize who have pioneered solutions to rural poverty, infant mortality and women’s health problems in their encore careers. The president is expected to challenge philanthropists to expand innovative programs making…
Author: Encore Careers
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UGA Odum School of Ecology faculty member honored for innovations after age 60
Athens, Ga. – Carl Jordan, senior research scientist at the University Of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, was recently designated as a 2008 Purpose Prize Fellow by Civic Ventures think tank. The Purpose Prize is awarded for people over 60 who are taking on society’s…
Author: University of Georgia
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The Innovation of Age
Purpose Prize honors achievements of older Americans who use their talents to solve social issues They might not seem to have much in common: a chief executive officer making his multinational corporation more environmentally friendly, a former physical-education teacher now training search-and-rescue dogs, an erstwhile…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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As Millions Plan Longer Working Lives, Stanford Summit to Promote a New Social Norm: Encore Careers for the Greater Good
New Brand Draws Attention to the Pause at the End of Midlife Careers and the Good Work That Can Follow Original Source SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) — Hundreds of people in encore careers, plus leaders in business, education, government, philanthropy, academia and public…
Author: AScribe Newswire
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Obama To Pick Berwick For Chief Of Medicare
By Julie Rovner. President Obama will nominate health quality guru Dr. Donald Berwick, the head of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to run Medicare and Medicaid, administration sources confirm. It’s been a long time coming. The powerful agency has been without a permanent administrator…
Author: NPR
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First U.S. woman to attempt Everest faces challenge with toxins research
Blum was recently one of six entrepreneurs over age 60 to win a $100,000 Purpose Prize Original Source By Kristin Bender BERKELEY — Arlene Blum has done some mind-boggling and challenging things in her 63 years. But even after climbing some of the world’s highest…
Author: Oakland Tribune
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12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older…
Author: Wall Street Journal
