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    Eisner establishes $100K intergenerational prize

    By JOHN ROGERS - Associated Press | AP – Mon, Oct 10, 2011

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — He made a small fortune — and then some — crafting entertainment that baby boomers couldn't get enough of. Now that the audience is getting old, former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner is giving some of that money back to them.

    The Eisner Foundation has established the annual Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence that includes a $100,000 cash award to the individual or non-profit organization it decides is doing the best work to help senior citizens and young people help each other.

    The first recipient, the Intergenerational Center at Temple University, offers a variety of programs from its base in Philadelphia to communities ranging from rural Minnesota to Southern California.

    The organization's founder, Nancy Henkin, will receive the award from Eisner on Oct. 27 at the Grantmakers in Aging conference in McLean, Va.

    Eisner's foundation, which allocates about $7.5 million each year, was created by the former Mouse House executive and his family 15 years ago to benefit children in Los Angeles County.

    But over the years, Eisner said, it was noticed that seniors, with ranks swelled by aging baby boomers, were often at the same risk as disadvantaged children of being ignored by society.

    "The bubble growing in seniors in this country, the kind of siloing of them, ghettoizing of them, the lack of financial support from all sectors, including the government, makes this issue almost a crisis issue," Eisner told The Associated Press.

    It was that aging baby boomer population that helped Eisner, 69, amass his fortune while running The Walt Disney Co. from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s.

    "It's kept me in good stead," he said. "I made entertainment I wanted to see, and luckily there were a lot of people like me around."

    His family foundation currently has assets of $135 million.

    "It's a question of what do we want to do as a society," Eisner said. "Do we want to warehouse older Americans and wait for them to become a burden or do we want to use them as a resource to inspire and educate younger people?"

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    Online:http://www.eisnerfoundation.org/

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    8 comments

    • Rob
      Rob  •  7 mths ago
      There is no nobility involved in this. Eisner was one of the original raiders that screwed over his stockholders to get 300 million in his first year bonus.
    • Grape Apette
      Grape Apette  •  7 mths ago
      all the robber barons start feeling guilty as they grow older and closer to hell.
    • frank
      frank  •  7 mths ago
      A noble gesture, however I question the first sentence of the piece..."he made a 'small' fortune" Just what does the writer consider 'small'? I'm guessing he made a fortune, period, during his 15 or 20 years as Disney's CEO.
    • watchout
      watchout  •  7 mths ago
      I like good news, but people like to rain on the parade all the time
    • Bobcat
      Bobcat  •  7 mths ago
      Mickey must be proud, although Minnie thinks it's Goofy.
    • James
      James  •  7 mths ago
      Eisner made big money off of Disney by raiding the Disney Movie Vaults.

      Massive videotape releases of all the Disney Classics, once they are sold they
      will close the vault forever on them.

      Then version 2.0 with DVD.

      Next he will use the BlueRay format and the vault will close again.

      Final performance is using the cloud, you own the right to watch the movie
      anytime, anywhere you want.
    • Bobcat
      Bobcat  •  7 mths ago
      I didn't know Adolf was here.
    • What profit
      What profit  •  7 mths ago
      What a great idea. Maybe a nice series of short books could be created for the younger children with a grandma and grandpa theme that works with input of values and moral lessons from the older generation. Books of timelasting values.
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