Marc Freedman (Civic Ventures) – 2010 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
Speakers
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Marc Freedman is Founder and Co-CEO of CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org). He is the author of five books, including most recently, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations. He co-founded Experience Corps to mobilize people over 50 to improve the prospects of low-income elementary school, and the Purpose Prize, an annual award for social innovators in the second half of life (Both Experience Corps and the Purpose Prize are now programs of AARP). Freedman is an Ashoka Senior Fellow; was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum; and is a Skoll Awardee. A former visiting fellow at Stanford University, King’s College, London, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, he holds an MBA from Yale University. He lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
