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$100,000

• Elizabeth Alderman and Stephen Alderman

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=4411

• Judith Broder

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=4138

• Don Coyhis

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=5017

• Henry Liu

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=4493

• Timothy Will

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=4765

$50,000

• Marcy Adelman

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=5199

• Duncan Campbell

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=5040

• Ann Higdon

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=5745

• Connie Siskowski

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=4252

• James Smallwood

  http://www.encore.org/prize/nominate?ref=candidatepage.cfm?candidateid=4377

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Do You Know Someone Like Tim?

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Do you know someone over 60 creating new solutions to social problems?

The Purpose Prize is looking for 10 people to win up to $100,000 each to support their work solving some of our most pressing social issues – from health care to the environment, poverty to education.

The $100,000 Purpose Prize is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, at www.encore.org/prize until March 5.

See who has won the Prize:

• Judith Broder, a psychiatrist, who recruits mental health professionals to provide free, confidential counseling to veterans and their families through The Soldiers Project.
• Henry Liu, a former engineering professor, who found a way to transform fly ash – a toxic byproduct of burning coal – into environmentally-friendly bricks that look and function like the ones made of clay.
• Connie Siskowski, a former nurse, who founded the Youth Caregiving Project to support a hidden population of pre-teens who shoulder adult-sized responsibilities caring for chronically ill relatives.
• Catalino Tapia, an immigrant, who built a gardening business and then launched a grassroots program raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship funds to seed the American dream for Latino youth.
• Marcy Adelman, who advocates for affordable, LGBT-friendly senior housing and trains service providers to better support LGBT elderly.
• Don Coyhis, who created the Wellbriety movement, a substance abuse recovery program that taps the power of Native American culture, tradition, and community to help heal his people.

Get started on nominating someone you know, a parent, coworker, friend or yourself, for the 2010 Prize.

Nominate now at Encore.org/prize

Please help us spread the word by posting information about The Prize in newsletters, listservs, blogs, or by emailing your friends and colleagues.

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Do you know someone creating real change in your community?

The Purpose Prize is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, at www.encore.org/prize until March 5, 2010.

The Purpose Prize provides ten awards of up to $100,000 to trailblazers, 60 years and older, who are creating new ways to solve our most pressing social issues – from health care to the environment, poverty to education. It is the nation's only large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of life.

See who has won the Prize:

• Judith Broder, who created The Soldiers Project, an organization that provides free, confidential, unlimited therapy to service members and their extended families.
• Tim Will, who connected farmers in his Appalachian community to chefs in Charlotte through an online ordering system, bringing laid-off factory workers back to the land and revitalizing the area economy.
• Tired of seeing babies die needlessly as a neo-natal nurse, Sharon Rohrbach founded the Nurses for Newborns Foundation to offer thousands of free home-visits to at-risk mothers.

Nominate someone today or help us spread the word by posting information about The Prize in newsletters, listservs, blogs, or by emailing your friends and colleagues.

Know someone over 60 who is changing the world?

The Purpose Prize® is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, at www.encore.org/prize until March 5th.

The Purpose Prize provides ten awards of up to $100,000 to social innovators, 60 years and older, who are solving some of our most pressing social issues – from health care to the environment, poverty to education.

Judith Broder, a psychiatrist, won a $100,000 Purpose Prize for recruiting volunteer therapists to provide unlimited, free, confidential therapy to combat veterans – and their families.

Who else do you know who is putting their passion and experience to work?

Please nominate or self-nominate today.

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Changing the world after 60? Innovating in an encore career? Win a $100,000 Purpose Prize. Nominate at www.encore.org/prize. #encorecareers

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