Older Americans Start Nonprofit Groups

Some older Americans, instead of starting a new business or traveling around the world after retirement, are becoming grass-roots “social entrepreneurs,” working to better their communities, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper examines four people who are finalists for the Purpose Prize, a new effort to honor people 60 and older and give them $100,000 apiece to help them start or expand efforts that benefit society. (Read an article in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on the Purpose Prize.)

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