At a time when magazines and tv shows like to celebrate the culture of excess, it’s nice to see social entrepreneurs being honored as a 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow. From the Reuters article:
Kenneth Barnes has been named a 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow, an honor for social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society's biggest challenges. Now in its fourth year, the six-year, $17 million program is the nation's only
large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of life.
Kenneth Barnes, Sr., the founder/CEO of the Washington, DC-based ROOT (Reaching Out to Others Together), Inc. was named a Fellow for his work on behalf of victims of crime and gun violence not only in his native Washington, DC, but throughout the US. In April of this year, Mr. Barnes was the recipient of the National Service Award presented to him by the Attorney
General of the United States during National Victims of Crime Week. This honor is the highest awarded to an individual based upon their work on behalf of victims of crime. Just this past month, Mr. Barnes was the recipient of the BET Hometown Hero of the Year award. Since his son was brutally murdered in 2001, he has worked tirelessly and ceaselessly to develop an awareness campaign, programs, and initiatives to help prevent gun violence from a public
health perspective, rather than wait to react to violence, as he feels is so often the norm today.
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