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
SPONSORS
The Purpose Prize® was created in 2005 by Encore.org, formerly Civic Ventures, with major investments from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the John Templeton Foundation to showcase the value of experience and disprove notions that innovation is the sole province of the young. The Prize is for those with the passion to make change and the experience to know how to do it. Close to 400 people have been recognized as Purpose Prize winners or fellows.
In 2011, for the first time, one of the five prizes – The Purpose Prize for Intergenerational Innovation – will be sponsored by AARP.
Legacy Works and the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation have also provided supplemental support for The Purpose Prize, the only large-scale initiative shining a national spotlight on people in the second half of life who are making extraordinary contributions in their encore careers.
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WHAT’S THE PURPOSE?
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