News - Civic Ventures
Purpose Prizes Honor Americans Over Age 60 for Making an Extraordinary Impact in their Encore Careers PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Civic Ventures today announced that Larry Hochendoner , from Harrisburg and Philadelphia, is a 2010 Purpose Prize Fellow.
Africa Bridge Founder Barry Childs Wins $100,000 Purpose Prize Childs is awarded the 2010 Purpose Prize for the work he initiated in 2000 through Africa Bridge, an Oregon nonprofit that assists vulnerable children and children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in rural Tanzania.
WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- As surprising as it sounds in the current employment market, a renowned labor economist projects that there will be more jobs than people to fill them in the United States by 2018.
Four in five boomers have told pollsters they intend to work past their traditional retirement age, and many want to find new jobs with a higher social purpose and more flexible hours.