Deadline: 29-Feb-24
Nominations are now open for the AARP Purpose Prize, a national award in the United States that celebrates people 50 and older who are using their life experience to make a difference.
Through the Purpose Prize award, AARP celebrates the creativity, innovation, and inspiration that life experience brings.
Topics
- 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)
- Public health (protecting and improving the health of people and their communities by addressing healthy lifestyles, nutrition, disease prevention, mental health, addiction, maternal health, 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 (reducing isolation among vulnerable community members)
- Civic engagement and community development (helping people be active participants in building and strengthening their communities)
- Diversity, equity and inclusion (improving the representation, fair treatment and experiences of underserved populations)
- Environmental issues (combatting the challenges facing the planet)
- Education (school- or community-based programs that help children attain educational goals)
- Youth development (programs that are not school-based that serve the needs of vulnerable children and teens)
- 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 the homeless population)
- Veterans (providing services for veterans, advocating for veterans’ rights, empowering veterans)
- Animal protection (ensuring animal welfare, promoting animal companionship with vulnerable populations)
Funding Information
- Up to seven Winners who have founded a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) non-profit organization will win $50,000 for their organization to honor the Winner’s achievements. They will also have access to a number of technical assistance organizational supports and resources to help broaden their organizations’ impact.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be legal residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, who are at least fifty (50) years old as of February 29, 2024, and who founded the non-profit organization for which they are applying at the age of forty (40) or older and still have an active role in the organization.
- Applicants must have founded a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) non-profit organization with its principal place of business located in the United States that is in good standing in its state of formation and exempt from federal income tax under section 501(a) the Internal Revenue Code at the time of Applicant’s submission and throughout the Purpose Prize Contest selection process (“Founded Non-Profit”). Officers, directors, and employees of Sponsor, its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising/promotion agencies, and/or their affiliates, assigns, agents, vendors or representatives, and all other persons or entities associated with the development, administration, judging, promotion, execution of this Purpose Prize Contest are not eligible to apply.
- AARP-appointed volunteers and staff and their immediate family members are not allowed to apply. Former AARP-appointed volunteers and staff and their immediate family members may apply only after a seven (7) year grace period. 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 whose Founded Non-Profit is exclusively religious or sectarian, individuals that work for organizations that share a board member with AARP and members of the same household and immediate families (e.g. parents, children, spouse, siblings) are not eligible.
- The Purpose Prize Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and is void where prohibited.
For more information, visit AARP Foundation.