Wilson Goode is one of the winners of the
2006 Purpose Prize Awards. He is perhaps best known for his two terms as mayor of Philadelphia (from 1984 to 1992). But in 2000, at age 62, Goode earned a Doctorate of Ministry and took a job as director of
Amachi, a nonprofit established to help the 7 million children who have one or both parents either in jail, on parole, or under state or federal supervision. The problem was close to his heart — when he was 14, Goode’s father was sent to jail for assaulting Goode’s mother.
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
Cowboy Fred Ortiz, 63, was named one of the
2006 Purpose Prize Fellows by
Civic Ventures. He saw something in the youth of Lubbock, Texas that he recognized all too well, and it pained him. Ortiz grew up in an economically depressed area of South El Paso, Texas, and witnessed many of his peers failing to thrive and resistant to opportunities that might provide them an avenue toward education and a more productive life.
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
Andy Goodman is a Senior Fellow at
Civic Ventures and a communications consultant based in Los Angeles. He speaks of the role of story telling and transformation, and of a vision of “encore careers” - people starting out second careers by changing their story.
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is author of
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, is a leading thinker in the field of Positive Psychology.
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