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Purpose Prize winners 2010

Purpose Prize winners 2010

By Geraldine Bedell on 11 November, 2010

A former homeless alcoholic and a housekeeper are among this year’s winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for entrepreneurs over the age of 60. The five winners, announced today, were selected by a panel of judges chaired by Sherry Lansing, former CEO of Paramount Pictures and the first woman to head a Hollywood [...]

Posted in Blog, Health & Social Care, Politics, Work | Tagged Allan Barsema, Barry Childs, Carpenter’s Place, Community Collaboration, Inez Killingsworth, Judith B Van Ginkel, Margaret Gordon, pollution, Purpose Prize, Sherry Lansing, Tanzania, West Oakland | 2 Responses

Marc Freedman

Inventing a new phase of life

By Geraldine Bedell on 7 October, 2010

It was a huge treat to meet Marc Freedman this week when he was in London. At Agebomb’s event at NESTA, he talked about the paradox that longer lives – which are obviously a good thing – are also widely seen as a social disaster. In the US, as well as here, there are plenty [...]

Posted in Blog, Culture, Work | Tagged Encore careers, G. Stanley Hall, Marc Freedman, Nesta, Purpose Prize, senescence | 4 Responses

Come to our ‘what is the point of retirement?’ event

Come to our ‘what is the point of retirement?’ event

By Geraldine Bedell on 13 September, 2010

Here is the invitation to Agebomb’s NESTA event on October 5th. Please do sign up!

Posted in Blog, Culture, Politics, Work | Tagged Caroline Waters, Charles Leadbeater, Encore, Experience Corps, Julia Neuberger, Marc Freedman, Nesta, pension, Prime Time, Purpose Prize, retirement, Shift | Leave a response

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