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Neighbor to Family Leader
Named Purpose Prize Winner
Gordon Johnson, president and CEO of
Alliance member
Neighbor
to Family, has been honored as a 2007 Purpose Prize winner of
$100,000.
Civic Ventures awards the Purpose Prize, the nation’s only
large-scale award for those in the second half of life working on
critical social issues.
"Winners of the Purpose Prize are inspired innovators who have
turned their experience and passion into new ventures that meet
difficult societal challenges. But they are much more than that,"
said Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, co-founder of
the Purpose Prize and author of Encore: Finding Work that Matters in
the Second Half of Life. "They provide encouraging signs of what's
to come as baby boomers leave their midlife careers and enter a new
stage of work and contribution."
Johnson wanted to help fix a problem. During his seven years heading
the Illinois Department of Family and Children, he saw that siblings
were separated from each other far too often. His organization,
Neighbor to Family, aims to keep siblings together and teach parents
the skills they need to get their children back.
Read more about Johnson’s lifelong commitment to care for abused and
neglected children
here. Johnson was presented with the Samuel Gerson Nordlinger
Child Welfare Leadership Award at the 2006 Alliance for Children and
Families National Conference. The award recognizes individuals for
their contributions to the effectiveness of the Alliance, the field
of child welfare, and the national public policy process in
advancing the cause of quality of services for children and
families. Learn more in
this Alliance for Children and Families Magazine article.
Learn more about Neighbor to Family at
www.neighbortofamily.org or Civic Ventures at
www.CivicVentures.org.
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