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ALL WINNERS AND FELLOWS

Prize

Over the past five years, more than 300 adults over the age of 60 have been named Purpose Prize winners or fellows for their extraordinary contributions in an encore career. All of them are using their talents and experience to come up with new and creative ways to help solve pressing issues in education, the environment, health care, poverty and more.

Meet the 2010 Prize winners
Meet the 2010 Prize fellows
See a list of all winners and fellows sortable by name, year, issue and location.

2010 FEATURED WINNERS

Inez Killingsworth (1938 - 2013)

In the midst of a housing crisis, Killingsworth helps homeowners avoid foreclosure by negotiating with banks for more favorable terms on mortgages.

Barry Childs

Childs improves the lives of vulnerable children and their families in Tanzania by creating farming cooperatives, building classrooms and opening clinics.

Barbara Chandler Allen

Allen engages children as philanthropists to create artwork that brings in donations that pay for desperately needed art supplies for inner-city Philadelphia schools.

WATCH THE VIDEOS

Get to know the 2010 Purpose Prize winners in these short videos.

Seligman Video Summit 2010

Inez Killingsworth, video

Barry Childs, video

Allan Barsema, video

Judith B. Van Ginkel, video

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NOMINATE NOW

Nominate yourself or someone you know for The Purpose Prize®.

THESE PEOPLE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD

11/09/2010 - 09:36:36pm

In some ways, five years doesn’t seem like such a long time. And yet, in the past five years, so much has changed, economically, politically, even demographically, as the first wave of baby boomers moved into their 60s.