Jennifer Jacobs Honored as Winner of the AARP® Purpose Prize® Award for Connect Our Kids Based in Falls Church

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FALLS CHURCH – AARP has announced the AARP Purpose Prize award winners, which includes Jennifer Jacobs, CEO and cofounder of Connect Our Kids. This annual award recognizes extraordinary nonprofit founders age 50 or older who are using their knowledge and life experience to make a difference. AARP will award each Purpose Prize winner $50,000 for their organization. Honorees will also receive a year of technical support to help broaden the scope of their organizations’ work. From voter advocacy and health equity to STEM education and post-release support, the work of this year’s honorees affects a variety of communities.

 

Connect Our Kids creates scalable tools to help keep kids in foster care connected to their people. Beyond technology, the organization helps social workers, judges, and other professionals and caregivers understand the impact of trauma from family separation, providing support and healing to both children and their families.

“Our AARP Purpose Prize winners show the power that lived experience can bring to solving some of the most urgent problems facing us today,” said Barb Quaintance, AARP Vice President of Enterprise Awards. “In finding their own purpose, they are improving lives around the world.”

Recipients and their organizations will be honored during an in-person celebration in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 1, 2024. For more information, go to aarp.org/purposeprize.