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A Decade of Transformation
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of social entrepreneurship and innovation, as passionate change-makers tackle the world’s most urgent problems. Traditionally, the field was viewed as...
View ArticleGenesis of the Prize
When we began thinking about how to showcase exceptional social innovators over the age of 60, we knew we were looking for a few specific things. We wanted to find individuals who had discovered an...
View ArticleBecoming a Social Entrepreneur
It’s a kind of cliché to think of world-changing passion and creativity as the exclusive province of the young. We forget that successful change also requires experience and knowledge. The Purpose...
View ArticleGenerations
Wilson Goode won a Purpose Prize in 2006, the Prize’s first year, for engaging tens of thousands of church members as mentors for young people whose parents were behind bars. A few years later, in...
View ArticlePaying it Forward
Ten years ago, three partners, The Atlantic Philanthropies, the John Templeton Foundation and Encore.org, joined forces to do something unprecedented – create a major prize, on the level of the...
View ArticleA Note from the John Templeton Foundation
It all started with a fax—not your typical source for innovation today. Still, the John Templeton Foundation’s first grant for The Purpose Prize a decade ago was inspired by this question, which Sir...
View ArticleA Note from The Atlantic Philanthropies
Atlantic Philanthropies began our support for The Purpose Prize ten years ago, in part to recognize and celebrate outstanding older Americans and the causes in which they’re involved. But our bigger...
View ArticleEncore.Org and AARP Join Forces
Ten years ago, The Purpose Prize set out to tell a new story about creativity and innovation in the second half of life. Today, the work of more than 500 honorees is testimony to the extraordinary...
View ArticleCredits and Acknowledgements
Encore Project Team: Jim Emerman (project manager), Marci Alboher, Eunice Lin Nichols, Aireen Navarro Khauv, Helen Zelon Producer: Talking Eyes Art Direction: D Griffin Studio Site Development:...
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