{"id":305983,"date":"2010-02-10T22:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54efc2f8088330120a88aa2e9970b"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:15:59","slug":"know-someone-over-60-creating-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/305983","title":{"rendered":"Know Someone over 60 Creating Social Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p>Nominate them for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encore.org\/prize\" >The Purpose Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Purpose Prize provides ten awards of up to $100,000 to social innovators in encore careers, 60 years and older, who are solving some of our most pressing social issues \u2013 from health care to the environment, poverty to education.<\/p>\n<p>The Purpose Prize is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/site\/blogs\/6a00e54efc2f80883300e551ef25358834\/post\/www.encore.org\/prize\" ><font color=\"#386ab1\">www.encore.org\/prize<\/font><\/a> until March 5th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encore.org\/prize\/nominate?ref=winners.cfm?year=2009\" >See<\/a> who has won the Prize:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Judith Broder, a psychiatrist who combined her experience and passion to recruit mental health professionals to provide free, confidential counseling to veterans, active-duty military personnel and their families through The Soldiers Project.\n<li>Don Coyhis, a former computer executive who built a nationwide substance abuse recovery program based on Native American beliefs and traditions.\n<li>Connie Siskowski, a former nurse who founded the Youth Caregiving Project to support a hidden population of pre-teens who shoulder adult-sized responsibilities caring for chronically ill relatives. <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who else do you know who is putting their passion and experience to work?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?i=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?i=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=1xtlY3WdxgU:s5L7pRJBY60:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/SfLibraryBlog\/~4\/1xtlY3WdxgU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominate them for The Purpose Prize. The Purpose Prize provides ten awards of up to $100,000 to social innovators in encore careers, 60 years and older, who are solving some of our most pressing social issues \u2013 from health care to the environment, poverty to education. The Purpose Prize is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}