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The Purpose Prize 2007 Winners





“We define purpose as the refocusing of the expertise and talent of a lifetime on finding solutions to challenges in our communities, our country, and the world.”
—Marc Freedman
The Purpose Prize 2007 Winners

$100,000 prize winners:

Donald Berwick
Cambridge, MA. Enlisting wide-scale cooperation across the healthcare industry to save lives

Gordon Johnson
Daytona Beach, FL. Developing programs to prevent the separation of siblings in foster care

H. Gene Jones

Tucson, AZ. Accelerating student achievement by integrating art in the curriculum

Wilma Melville
Ojai, CA. Saving lives at disaster sites by training canine-firefighter search teams

Sharon Rohrbach
St. Louis, MO. Saving the lives of newborns through nurse home visits

$10,000 prize winners:

Ray Anderson
Atlanta, GA. Leading the business community in adopting practices that protect the environment and boost profits

Gloria Jackson Bacon
Chicago, IL. Building healthy families to help poor children thrive

Sally Binghams

San Francisco, CA. Leading a religious response to global warming

Phil Borges
Seattle, WA. Using technology to expand cross-cultural understanding among youth

Richard Cherry
New York, NY. Providing energy conservation and green-building services for low-income New Yorkers

 

 

Adele Douglass
Herndon, VA. Advancing humane treatment of farm animals through certification and labeling

Jose-Pablo Fernandez
Houston, TX. Engaging Hispanic parents in the education of their children

Sara J. Gonzalez

Atlanta, GA. Incubating new Hispanic businesses and linking them to the larger business world

Marian Kramer
Detroit, MI. Organizing a grassroots, legal and legislative fight for the right to water in Detroit

Gary Maxworthy
San Francisco, CA. Redistributing tons of nutritious produce to people in need