And the 2010 Purpose Prize Winners Are?

By | Nov 9, 2010

Ten individuals have been awarded up to $100,000 for their work to improve their communities and the world. From fighting U.S. foreclosures to taking on powerful polluters to rebuilding Afghanistan, this year’s Purpose Prize winners are working on community-based...

These People Are Changing the World

By | Nov 9, 2010

In some ways, five years doesn’t seem like such a long time. And yet, in the past five years, so much has changed, economically, politically, even demographically, as the first wave of baby boomers moved into their 60s. With many of those changes in mind, two...

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...

Becoming a Life Change Artist

By | Aug 26, 2010

Career books often tell us that we should learn from successful leaders in business, the nonprofit sector or government. But in their new book, Becoming a Life Change Artist, Fred Mandell and Kathleen Jordan argue that we could all benefit from studying the processes...

Experience an Asset for Social Innovators

By | Aug 24, 2010

Last week I wrote an OpEd for Reuters.com on why age and experience can be advantageous for social entrepreneurs. It’s part of a series on social entrepreneurship on the Reuters “Entrepreneurial: Grow Your Own” blog, and it includes examples of...