Bravo! Congratulations to these terrific individuals, innovating for the good of society. From the Encore Careers release:
This year’s winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for social innovators in their encore careers, are using a new stage of life to do extraordinary things to improve life for millions of people worldwide.
They include:
- A former telecom executive who helped wire an Appalachian county and brought laid-off factory workers back to profitable farming.
- A professor who invented a way to transform toxic fly ash into green bricks.
- A psychiatrist who helps saves soldiers’ lives by offering free mental health treatment.
- A former NASA exec who works to treat alcoholism in Native American communities by reviving old customs and traditions.
- A couple who honor their son, killed on 9/11, by helping to bring mental health services to countries ravaged by terrorism, violence and war.
These people – and five other $50,000 winners – are social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society’s biggest challenges. Now in its fourth year, the six-year, $17 million program is the nation’s only large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of life.