IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday December 12, 2008

Roger A. Campos Honored as Purpose Prize Fellow for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Career, After Age 60

• Solving Social Problems with Experience, Fellows Disprove Notion that Innovation is the Province of the Young and Demonstrate What's Possible in an Aging Society

Washington, D.C. - Civic Ventures (www.civicventures.org), a national think tank on boomers, has designated Roger A. Campos, President & CEO of MBRT and Chairman of the U.S. Hispanic Youth Entrepreneur & Education Foundation located in Baltimore, MD as one of its 2008 Purpose Prize Fellows. The Purpose Prize is a $9 million program for people over 60 who are taking on society's biggest challenges. The Prize, now in its third year, is the nation's only large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of life.

Roger was named a fellow for his efforts to raise the voice of minority entrepreneurs nationwide and for his work to address the high dropout rates among Hispanic youth and introduce them to entrepreneurship as a career option.

"In tough economic times, we need more creative solutions to long-standing social problems," said Marc Freedman, co-founder of The Purpose Prize program and author of Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life. "It's reassuring to note that as America ages, we have creativity in greater abundance. Purpose Prize Fellows such as Roger show that experience and innovation can go hand in hand, that inventiveness is not the sole province of the young."

"CEO's of small and minority businesses lack a voice in Washington and youth today who enter our workforce need role models and mentors. People in the second half of their lives can provide their knowledge, experience and leadership", said Roger A. Campos. "We can refocus ourselves to help those deserving a chance to succeed."

The Purpose Prize is part of the Encore Careers campaign (www.encore.org), which aims to engage millions of boomers in encore careers, which combine social impact, personal meaning and continued income in the second half of life - and produce a windfall of human talent to solve society's most pressing issues. The Purpose Prize supports Fellows by helping develop their capacity, linking them with funders and venture philanthropists and connecting them to other social innovators over 60. Purpose Prize Fellows participated in the first-ever Encore Careers Summit on December 5-7 at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business' Center on Social Innovation, one of the world's leading academic centers focused on social entrepreneurship.

More than 450 people attended the Summit, including Purpose Prize winners and Fellows, hundreds of others in encore careers, and leaders in education, government, business, philanthropy, and public policy. The goal is to launch a movement of those in the second half of life who want to use longer, healthier lives for social good.

Funding for The Purpose Prize comes from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the John Templeton Foundation. Additional funding for the Summit comes from AARP, Erickson Companies, the New York Life Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Company and Legacy Works.

About the Minority Business RoundTable:

The Minority Business RoundTable is the only national non-profit organization for CEOs of the nation's leading African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American and other minority-owned businesses. Its members analyze and help formulate effective public policies that impact minority-owned business. Our corporate members work to create sustainable communities and national economic viability through successful partnerships.

The Minority Business RoundTable is proud to have Glaxco Smith Kline, Equifax, Southwest Airlines, the Allegis Group and Aerotek, Inc., IMPAC real estate holding companies, the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of the country's leading corporations, the Kauffman Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies, corporations and business trade groups as strategic partners. For more information on the Minority Business RoundTable, please visit www.mbrt.net.

About USHYEE
U.S. Hispanic Youth Entrepreneur Education (USHYEE) was founded in 2004 in order to address the high drop out rates among Hispanic youth and to introduce high school youth to entrepreneurship as a career option. Hispanics tend to be entrepreneurial and are the largest, youngest and fastest growing minority in the United States. Our goal is to use concepts taught in entrepreneurship to bridge the high school to college continuum in the minds of Hispanic youth.

About Civic Ventures
Civic Ventures (www.civicventures.org) is a national think tank on boomers, work and social purpose.

About The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Philanthropies (www.atlanticphilanthropies.org) are dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Their work is aimed at ageing, disadvantaged children and youth, population health, and reconciliation and human rights.

About the John Templeton Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation (www.templeton.org) serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in the areas engaging life's biggest questions. These questions range from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness and creativity.

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