Marc Freedman (Civic Ventures) – 2010 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
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Marc Freedman is President and CEO of Encore.org. A visiting scholar at Stanford University during 2014-15 and formerly a visiting fellow at King’s College, University of London, Freedman is the author of five books, including most recently, How to Live Forever, which was selected as #1 on the Wall Street Journal’s 2018 list of best books on aging well. An Ashoka Senior Fellow, Freedman was named a 2014 Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum, and received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2010. He cofounded Experience Corps, mobilizing thousands of individuals over 50 to improve the school performance and prospects of low-income elementary school students in 22 U.S. cities, and spearheaded the creation of the Purpose Prize, an annual $100,000 prize for social entrepreneurs in the second half of life. A graduate of Swarthmore and with an MBA from Yale, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Leslie Gray, and three sons.
