In Memoriam: Inez Killingsworth

By | Jan 24, 2013

It was with great sadness that we learned that Purpose Prize winner Inez Killingsworth died January 17 after a courageous battle with cancer. Killingsworth was an indefatigable advocate for the collective power of people acting together to make change in their...

A Societal Makeover as Boomers Turn 65

By | Jan 5, 2011

Let the prognostication begin! Predictably the New Year – in which the first of the baby boomers turn 65 – began with much of the usual hand-wringing over what the aging of the country’s largest demographic will mean for the economy, politics and culture. In its first...

Taking on Foreclosures

By | Oct 15, 2010

On the front page of today’s New York Times is the story of a retired lawyer, Thomas A. Cox , 66, of Denmark, Maine, who formerly worked for a bank calling in loans and foreclosing on people and found his encore career when he went over to the other side. The...