Marc Freedman

Marc Freedman
President and Founder
Civic Ventures

By tapping the talents and skills of older Americans, Marc Freedman seeks to create a social movement based on sharing life experience. At a time when the middle-aged population confronts ever-increasing demands on its time and public funding for education is desperately short, Marc believes that society can no longer overlook, or even write off, an older population that should be an enormous resource. To address this issue, he founded Civic Ventures, a national nonprofit organization that works to expand the contributions of older Americans to society and to help transform the aging of American society into a source of individual and social renewal. Marc seeks to change the way older Americans use their time, talent, and experience and measures his success by the substantial impact he makes on social problems and by the extent that his ideas spread through existing organizations. Marc created the Purpose Prize, the nation’s first prize for social innovators over 60, to further recognize the efforts of older Americans’ contributions in their communities and throughout the country. He also led the effort to create The Experience Corps, the nation’s largest national service program engaging Americans 50 and above.