National Council on Aging Honors Marc Freedman

SAN FRANCISCO — Civic Ventures founder and President Marc Freedman received a national leadership award from the National Council on Aging (NCOA), one of four announced at the American Society on Aging/NCOA joint national conference earlier this month in Anaheim.

Freedman's honor, the Jack Ossofsky Award, is given "to individuals or organizations that have taken a creative, new idea and developed it into a successful program, service, or policy that helps older people achieve vital aging." Jack Ossofsky was a former NCOA leader.

"I'm honored to accept this award, and I accept it on behalf of the entire staff of Civic Ventures," said Freedman. "We're working to define the second half of life as a time when adults turn to meaningful work and focus their experience and energy on the greater good."

Also honored by the NCOA were:

• Molly Mettler, senior vice president of Healthwise, Incorporated, which develops consumer health content;
• The Archstone Foundation, which focuses its grantmaking on preparing society for an aging population; and
• Jeanette C. Takamura, dean at Columbia University of School of Social Work and former assistant secretary for aging at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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