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[30 May 2006 | No Comment | 348 views]

I have just finished screening purposals for the Purpose Prize, a cash award to be given by the terrific organization called Civic Ventures that promotes civic engagement on the part of people over fifty. The entries I saw were all impressive and I wish they all could win, but what really struck me was the theme that was taken up by several of them – the growing care-giving crisis in our society, which is particularly accute among women in their Second Adulthood. Many have given up everything – relationships, jobs, …