The AARP Foundation is accepting applications for its Purpose Prize, a national award in the United States that celebrates people 50 and older who are using their life experiences to make a difference.
Donor Name: AARP Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Prize
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/28/2023
Grant Size: $50,000
Details:
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 promoting healthy lifestyles, food and nutrition, disease prevention, mental 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 (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)
Prize Details
- Each Winner’s Founded Non-Profit will receive $50,000 in celebration of the Winner’s achievement and in furtherance of the Founded Non-Profit’s mission. The Winner will receive:
- The opportunity to participate in a 1-year AARP Purpose Prize peer cohort;
- Attendance at the AARP Purpose Prize Award Event (virtual or in-person);
- Media engagements via AARP facilitation and/or delivery channels;
- Access to internal AARP and external resources to support their work.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be US citizens living in the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, who are at least fifty (50) years old as of the date of entry and who started the work for which they are applying for at the age of forty (40) or older. There must also be a connection between the Applicant’s own life and their work.
- 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 in good standing in its state of origin and tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code at the time of Applicant’s submission and throughout the Purpose Prize Contest selection process (“Founded Non-profit”).
For more information, visit AARP Foundation.
