Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes
for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults
Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation
Americans Doing Work Abroad Eligible for the First Time
SAN FRANCISCO — One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo, North Dakota, rallied hundreds of local volunteers to help thousands of refugees from countries like Iraq and Somalia start new lives in their city. A third is working to ensure that black farmers in the South are included in the new “green” economy.
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