10/28/09 - Tim Will Receives Purpose Prize
Tim Will, Executive Director for Foothills Connect, used his telecommunications background to connect his Appalachian county's agrarian past to a digital future. Bringing broadband to the rural area helped link local farmers to chefs in Charlotte through an online ordering system, bringing laid-off factory workers back to farming.
This year's winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for five 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.
These social entrepreneurs over 60 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.
The winners and 49 Purpose Prize Fellows of 2009 will be honored at a Summit on Innovation on Oct. 31 – Nov. 1 at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business' Center on Social Innovation, one of the world's leading academic centers focused on social entrepreneurship.
The Purpose Prize is a program of the Encore Careers campaign (www.encore.org), which aims to engage millions of baby boomers in encore careers combining social impact, personal meaning and continued income in the second half of life. The goal: to produce a windfall of human talent to solve society's greatest problems, from education to the environment, health care to homelessness.
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