Nominations Open for $100,000 Purpose Prize

Nominations Open for $100,000 Purpose Prize

Do you know a Latino over 60 who is changing the world?

The Purpose Prize provides ten awards of up to $100,000 to community leaders, 60 years and older, who are solving some of our most pressing social issues – from health care to the environment, poverty to education.

The Purpose Prize is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, athttp://www.encore.org/prize until March 5th.

Several Latinos have been honored so far:

•    Catalino Tapia, an immigrant who launched a small gardening business, watched tearfully as his son graduated from law school. Struck by the power of education and the American dream, Catalino began asking his clients for donations to help young Latinos attend college. Now Catalino has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship funds for low-income students with his organization, the Bay Area Gardeners’ Foundation.

•    Cuban-American Conchy Bretos left a government career to start her own business that works to bring assisted living services to public housing residents in Miami. Her first project, Helen Sawyer Plaza, became a national model and received five national awards.

Don't know someone to nominate? Please use your leadership to help us spread the word by posting information about The Prize in newsletters, list serves, blogs, or by emailing your friends and colleagues.

Best wishes,

Vanessa Alabarces
Program Associate, The Purpose Prize
http://www.encore.org/prize