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In the field of social entrepreneurship, an inspiring new group of post-retirement individuals is emerging. Unwilling to stuff envelopes or go off quietly to the sidelines, these change-makers are taking matters into their own hands and fashioning a new vision of the second half of life, one in which the expertise and talent of a lifetime is refocused on finding solutions to challenges in our communities, our country, and the world. In this audio lecture, Marc Freedman, cofounder of Civic Ventures, tells the story of the creation of The Purpose Prize, which provides five awards of $100,000 and ten awards of $10,000 to people over 60 who are taking on society’s biggest challenges.These folks are living proof that social entrepreneurship is not just for the young.
Marc Freedman is the founder and president of Civic Ventures, and cofounder of the Experience Corps. Formerly vice president of Public/PrivateVentures and a visiting fellow of Kings College, University of London, he has served as an advisor to numerous nonprofit groups and corporations. His most recent book, Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, was hailed by The New York Times as “inspiring, informative, [and] mind-opening." His earlier book, The Kindness of Strangers, was called “the definitive book on the (mentoring) movement” by the Los Angeles Times. Freedman is a frequent commentator in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on National Public Radio. A high honors graduate of Swarthmore College with an MBA from Yale University, he has received the Ashoka fellowship, the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy, the Archstone Award of the American Public Health Association, and the Maxwell Pollock Award of the Gerontological Society of America.
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