We’ve changed our name from Encore.org to CoGenerate! Join us at cogenerate.org to bridge generational divides and co-create the future.

We’ve changed our name from Encore.org to CoGenerate! Join us at cogenerate.org to bridge generational divides and co-create the future.

 

Marc Freedman shares a great honor: For us, the announcement that our founder and CEO, Marc Freedman received a 2014 Social Entrepreneur award from The Schwab Foundation and The World Economic Forum was the biggest recent news. Marc was honored for his part in turning “encore careers” into “a new social norm” to “transform the fundamental challenge of an aging society into an opportunity.”

Marc joins an illustrious set of social innovators around the globe also honored this year, including the founders of the KIPP schools, Room to Read, and Do Something. The awards are granted “in recognition of — innovative approaches and potential for global impact. The 2014 awards will be presented at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in China this September (the “summer Davos”) and means that the work of Encore.org and the other winners will be “fully integrated into the events and initiatives of the World Economic Forum.”

Bread and identity. Paul Sullivan’s New York Times story, ‘Older, They Turn a Phone Into a Job,’ includes quotes from Marc: “When I talk to people in their 70s and 80s, they’re going to work for their daily bread, but they’re also going for their daily identity.”

Don’t Forget the Small Fry. Writer Kelly Greene, in an article for The Wall Street Journal Money magazine supplement, takes a look at the role “small fry” family foundations in a world of mega-charities, and quotes Marc about the lasting importance of traditional forms of charity.

Remember comedian Marty Allen? He’s featured — and Marc is quoted — in a USA Today story about those who “never retire.”

Field & Stream. 2013 Purpose Prize winner Ed Nicholson of Project Healing Waters gets a nice little writeup as one of three “Heroes of Conservation” in the April issue of the popular hunting and fishing magazine — with a circulation of 1.2 million.

Cultiva Opportunidades. Catalino Tapia, 2008 Purpose Prize winner, in a Spanish-language TV spot as the Miracle-Gro plant food brand takes up “greater good” marketing.

50 is Not the New 40. A piquant conversation with author Annabelle Gurtwich in The New York Times — “I’m Not Getting Better, I’m Getting Older” — doesn’t mention Encore but does — in part — echo our thinking on the wisdom of accepting the passage of the years.

Video extra: Suzanne Braun Levine, first editor of Ms. magazine and Encore.org board member, talks about the history of the women’s movement — with parallels to the Encore movement.

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