Deadline: 31 March 2020
Nominations are now open for 2020 AARP Purpose Prize to honor extraordinary people ages 50 and older who tap into the power of life experience to build a better future for us all.
Included within the AARP Purpose Prize is the Andrus Prize for Intergenerational Excellence. This award celebrates the legacy of AARP’s founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus. Dr. Andrus was an innovative educator and social change agent. The Andrus Prize for Intergenerational Excellence recognizes work that brings multiple generations together for a better community.
Issues
They strongly consider applicants working in the following issue areas:
- Intergenerational work (opportunities for different generations to come together to share their experience, knowledge, and skills)
- Rethinking the workplace (jobs, work environments, alternative approaches)
- Caregiving and caregiver resources (support for vulnerable populations and the people who care for them)
- Healthy living (food and nutrition, brain health, physical fitness, etc.)
- Financial health (financial stability, resilience, economic opportunity, etc.
- Hunger (food insecurity, waste, distribution, etc.)
- Affordable housing (safe, well-managed, and affordable housing and services)
- Social connections (isolation among vulnerable community members)
- Civic engagement and community development (helping people be active participants in building and strengthening their communities)
- Environmental issues (combatting the challenges facing the planet)
- Children and youth (helping kids and young people reach their full potential, in school settings and elsewhere)
- Arts and culture (using art and culture as tools to engage communities in positive change)
- Peace and security rights (establishing or preserving justice and equality by peaceful means)
- Homelessness (addressing the needs of homeless populations)
- Veterans (providing services for veterans, advocating for veterans’ rights, empowering veterans)
- Animal Protection (ensuring animal welfare, promoting animal companionship with vulnerable populations)
Award Information
AARP Purpose Prize Fellows:
- While there can only be a maximum of five (5) AARP Purpose Prize Winners each year, AARP recognizes that there are many strong applicants whose work contributes to improving local and global communities. Therefore, AARP will invite a select group of Finalists, and in some cases Semi-Finalists, to be “Fellows”.
- The Fellows will help round out each year’s “class.” AARP Purpose Prize Fellows may also receive, but are not guaranteed:
- Participation in a 1-year AARP Purpose Prize peer cohort
- Attendance at the 2021 AARP Purpose Prize Celebration Event
- Access to internal AARP and external resources to support their work
- a donation of up to $5,000 for their Founded Non-Profit organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominees must be legal residents of the fifty (50) United States/District of Columbia and its territories or a US citizen living abroad, who are at least fifty (50) years old as of the date of entry and who started the work for which they are nominated at the age of forty (40) or older. Officers, directors, and employees of AARP ( “Sponsor”), its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising/promotion agencies, and/or their affiliates, assigns or representatives (hereinafter referred to collectively as “Sponsor & Others”), and all other persons or entities associated with the development, administration, judging, promotion, execution of, of this Promotion are not eligible for nomination. AARP-appointedvolunteers and staff are not allowed to nominate themselves or family members.
- Additionally, past Purpose Prize and AARP Purpose Prize winners, past fellows from the previous two (2) years of AARP Purpose Prize classes, current AARP or AARP Foundation grantees, elected officials, individuals involved in a project that is exclusively religious or sectarian, individuals that work for organizations that share a board member with AARP, or members of the same household and immediate families of Sponsor & Others, (e.g. parents, children, spouse, siblings) are not eligible for nomination.
For more information, visit https://purposeprize.aarp.org/