FEELING AT HOME CARING FOR THE HOMELESS
A veteran of corporate America finds her skills are right for a new task When Anne Nolan first walked down the darkened steps into a homeless shelter, she started to cry. “I was so overwhelmed by the emotion of the place, the humanity, the pain,” she recalls. “I was terrified and frightened. The dilapidated building […]
HOW TO FINANCE A MIDCAREER MOVE
Read Published Article Is it finally time for a change? You’ve spent more than 20 years in one field—say, banking, law, or sales. You’ve dutifully built up equity in your home, saved a tidy sum for your kids’ college tuition, and stashed away a healthy retirement fund. It’s been a nice ride, but it’s starting […]
5 STEPS TO STARTING A SECOND CAREER
Read Published Article Who doesn’t fantasize about a second career? Especially if you’ve worked in the same field for 20 or 25 years, been there and done that, accomplished most of what you set out to do, and run out of fresh challenges. Maybe you feel you have talents that are going to waste. Or […]
BOTTLING A HEALTHY IDEA
A former Microsoft exec’s start-up finances cancer research Read Published Article Running (and finishing) a 5K race wasn’t always on Trish May’s to-do list. Neither was founding and running a company whose purpose is to provide funds for women’s cancer research. But on a crisp June day in 1994, May, now 53, completed her first […]
WHERE WORK REALLY IS A ZOO
Read Published Article Howard Baskin admits that a few homeless cats have won his heart over the years, but saving abandoned and abused lions, lynxes, and leopards was by no means his dream, let alone his passion. When it came to giving to animal causes, he might write a modest check to the Humane Society […]
FROM HIGH TECH TO HIGH MINDED
Read Published Article Ah, family memories—1960s antiwar rallies in Berkeley and trailing farmworker activist César Chávez as an 11-year-old, with his socially progressive parents. Add the weekly trip to Peet’s Coffee to buy a bag of freshly roasted coffee beans with his father.
Barking up the Right Tree
A botanist and a pediatrician follow their noses to chocolate Read Published Article As a kid, Deborah Langsam used to stare in the windows of the bakeries in Brooklyn, N.Y., and dream of what delicacy she would buy if she had all the money in the world.
FROM ONE GRILLING TO ANOTHER
Read Published Article Alejandro Benes vividly remembers standing in front of the White House on Oct. 20, 1973, with a group of friends, after President Richard Nixon had ordered the firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Benes, then a college freshman, and friends simply “were watching as people were going in and […]
ANOTHER KIND OF REWARD
Ex-consultant now helps orphans with AIDS Read Published Article Most people wouldn’t walk away from a high-paying job. But Kim Ogden did. “It was time,” she says with a gentle laugh. Ogden, 44, who had risen to partner at Bain & Co., the Boston-based management consulting firm, headed off at the end of 2002, […]
