Marc Freedman is Founder and Co-CEO of CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org), and a faculty member at The Yale School of Management. Freedman is the author of five books, including most recently, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations. He co-founded Experience Corps to mobilize people over 50 to improve the prospects of low-income elementary schools, and the Purpose Prize, an annual award for social innovators in the second half of life. Freedman is an Ashoka Senior Fellow; was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum; and has been honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. A former visiting fellow at Stanford University, King’s College, London, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, he holds an MBA from the Yale. He lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Early Childhood to Primary EducationEducationHealthPost-Secondary EducationSecondary EducationYouth Job Skills
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