Edward Mazria, architect, founder and CEO of Architecture 2030 was awarded this year’s Purpose Prize. His work over the past eight years, after founding Architecture 2030, has set numerous environmental goals for the building industry. It has also brought many issues of sustainable design to the forefront of conversations and policies about buildings and their construction.

In this video, Lyle Hurst – network developer for the Encore Fellowships Network – discusses how Civic Ventures started the Encore Fellows program with support from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and Hewlett-Packard. Encore Fellows generally have spent the majority of their careers in the private sector; the network matches the fellows with a nonprofit organization, government agency or private firm with a social purpose.

In this independently organized TED event, Civic Ventures board member Suzanne Braun Levine talks about women and life after 50. Levine is a nationally recognized authority on women and family issues and media. She was the first editor of Ms. magazine and the only woman to edit the Columbia Journalism Review.

Tough new economic realities have transformed career reinvention from a virtue into a necessity for millions of older Americans who aren't ready to retire or simply can't afford to quit working. Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, talks about how this phenomenon may – for some – lead to more personally meaningful work.

Video production company Nextnik this week released a new video that illustrates the dilemma boomer transition – from worker to retiree to … what? Videographer Mike Kravinsky, who runs Nextnik, took his inspiration from The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, a book by Civic Ventures founder and CEO Marc Freedman.

Tough new economic realities have transformed career reinvention from a virtue into a necessity for millions of older Americans who aren't ready to retire or simply can't afford to quit working. But hard times have not forced many boomers around traditional retirement age to give up dreams of meaningful second careers. Recognizing that trend, Civic Ventures has launched a movement around encore careers with two main themes: second careers with meaning and social entrepreneurship.

Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, discusses his new book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, which The New York Times called “an imaginative work with the potential to affect our individual lives and our collective future.“

Civic Ventures founder and CEO Marc Freedman talks to Inside E Street, an AARP program broadcast on PBS, about his new book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife – and a movement that looks to redefine what comes after midlife.

Inside E Street, an AARP program broadcast on PBS, explores the phase of life in which people entering their 40s, 50s and 60s may find themselves looking for new purpose. When your gut calls for change, what do you do? This segment profiles three people in their encore careers: Meredith McKenzie and Encore Fellows Janet Pretti and Mark Judge.