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This year's winners include:

•  A San Francisco Bay Area screenwriter, who adopted two daughters from China in her 50s, then found a way to partner with the Chinese government in efforts to transform the care of 800,000 orphans there, 95 percent of whom are girls.
• A serial entrepreneur who has worked to revitalize Detroit’s economy by leading a business incubator to help new businesses grow.
• An Oregon woman who fightsa top killer of children in developing nations by producing and distributing low-cost, safe, fuel-efficient cookstoves in Latin America.
• A woman in Washington, D.C., who is working to ease the transitions of thousands of African immigrants and refugees.
• A Santa Fe, N.M., architect challenging the building sector – perhaps the largest contributor of greenhouse gases – to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions.

To read about these extraordinary people, click here.

"While Purpose Prize winners are helping to solve a wide range of pressing social problems, they have one thing in common,” said Marc Freedman, CEO and founder of Civic Ventures and author of The Big Shift (PublicAffairs Books). “They – and millions of others in encore careers – are turning personal passions and decades of experience into invaluable contributions across sectors, continents and generations, often through entrepreneurship.”

Funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the John Templeton Foundation, The Purpose Prize is a program of Civic Ventures’ Encore Careers campaign (www.encore.org), which aims to engage millions of boomers in encore careers combining personal meaning, continued income and social impact in the second half of life.