November 13, 2011
Founder of Charity to Provide Safer Stoves Is Among 5 Winners of Purpose Prizes
Civic Ventures
Nancy Hughes got inspired while volunteering.
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Civic Ventures
Nancy Hughes got inspired while volunteering.
The award: The Purpose Prize, which honors efforts by people older than 60 to solve big social problems
Who gives the award: Civic Ventures, in San Francisco
How much the award offers: $100,000 apiece to five winners
Among the winners: Nancy Sanford Hughes, an Oregon homemaker who created StoveTeam International in 2008 to manufacture and distribute safe cooking stoves in developing
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