FOR EXTRAORDINARY WORK IN ENCORE CAREERS

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The Purpose Prize is a brilliant awards program, unique in so many ways.

Sherry Lansing

CEO, The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Chair, Purpose Prize Panel of Judges

With decades of energy and passion ahead of them, 10 people over the age of 60 will win The Purpose Prize this year— and up to $100,000 each. The 2010 winners will be announced this fall at a Summit commemorating five years of The Purpose Prize.

See what’s possible in the second half of life by learning more about how Purpose Prize winners, all in their encore careers, solve critical problems in education, health care, the environment and more.

Read their stories >
Watch short videos describing their work >
Listen to podcasts explaining how they found their encores >

ABOUT THE PRIZE

NOMINATE NOW

Nominate yourself or someone you know for The Purpose Prize. Nominations for 2010 closed on March 5, but nominations are now open for 2011.

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FEATURED WINNERS

Donald Berwick

Enlisting wide-scale collaboration across the health care industry to save lives

Judith Broder

Broder, a psychiatrist, created The Soldiers Project to support free, confidential, unlimited therapy to veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan – and their families.

Don Coyhis

Coyhis developed Wellbriety, a substance abuse recovery program that taps the power of Native American culture, tradition, and community to help heal his people.

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