Heya New Yorkers!

Thought you might be interested in a new Community podcast that we just posted. It features three tenacious social entrepreneurs who noticed a need in a Bronx community--and decided to do something about it.

You can find the podcast here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/idealistpodcasts/~3/229038307/index.php

Thanks, and have a good day!
The pod team

Please feel free to circulate the invitation below to an upcoming event in New York City featuring individuals who transitioned into encore careers in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. Ask them how they did it, learn about how to find your own encore career, and prepare to be inspired!

-Alexandra Céspedes Kent
Director, The Purpose Prize

Ready to put your experience to work for the greater good?
Join us for a discussion about Encore Careers

When:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
2:00-4:00 PM
Networking reception to follow

Where:
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
Humanities and Social Sciences Library, South Court Auditorium


***Hear from your peers and ask them about how they transitioned into
encore careers in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.***

• Elizabeth Alderman, a former teacher who was named a
Purpose Prize fellow for co-founding the Peter C. Alderman
Foundation, an international organization healing emotional
trauma in post-conflict countries.

• Catalino Tapia, a Mexican immigrant who started a landscaping
business and recently won the 2008 Purpose Prize for founding
the Bay Area Gardeners Foundation, a college scholarship fund
for low-income Latino students.

***Special Guests will discuss how to find an encore career.***

• Michael Watson, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Girl
Scouts of the USA, and a former IBM executive contributing his
skills in the nonprofit sector.

• Jeri Sedlar, Co-author of "Don't Retire, Rewire!" and Senior
Advisor to The Conference Board on the Mature Workforce



***About***

The Encore Careers Campaign and the Purpose Prize are initiatives of Civic Ventures, a think tank on boomers, work and social purpose.


The Encore Careers campaign aims to engage millions of boomers in encore careers, providing personal fulfillment doing paid work and producing a windfall of human talent to solve society's greatest problems.


The Purpose Prize provides awards of up 10 $100,000 to social innovators, age 60 and over, who are creating new ways to solve tough social problems. Find out more at: www.encore.org/prize


Directions:

Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018-2788
For more information: 212-340-0951

MTA Subway
1, 2, 3 to 42nd Street and Broadway. Walk two blocks east to Fifth Avenue
A, C to 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. Walk four blocks east to Fifth Avenue
D, B, F, V to 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. Walk one block east to Fifth Avenue
4, 5, 6 to Grand Central Station. Walk two blocks west to Fifth Avenue
7 to Fifth Avenue

MTA Bus
M1, M2, M3, M4, M6, M7, M42, M104, Q32 to Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street

The $100,000 Purpose Prize recognizes people 60 and older who are coming up with creative ways to solve society’s problems. Past winners have addressed homelessness, joblessness, discrimination, and other obstacles.

We want nominees to reflect our country’s diversity and to show that social change isn't just for the young. We think the Idealist.org community can help.

Nominations for the 2010 Purpose Prize are now open and we thought you might be able to spread the word through your networks, including blogs, list serves, colleagues, friends and family.

In its fifth year, The Prize provides ten awards of up to $100,000 to social innovators, 60 years and older, who are creating new ways to solve our most pressing social issues – from health care to the environment, poverty to education.

Nominations, including self-nominations are due March 5, 2010 and can be submitted at www.encore.org/prize.

Past winners of the Purpose Prize include:

-Catalino Tapia, an immigrant who built a gardening business and then launched a grassroots program raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship funds to seed the American dream for Latino youth.

-Judith Broder, a psychiatrist who combines 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.

-Don Coyhis, a former computer executive who built a nationwide substance abuse recovery program based on Native American beliefs and traditions.

All the best,
Alexandra Kent
Director, The Purpose Prize
Civic Ventures