Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Second-Act Careers: From Head Honcho to Humanitarian - US News and World Report

Second-Act Careers: From Head Honcho to Humanitarian - US News and World Report: "Picture yourself atop a ski slope in Telluride, Colo., with a day of perfect powder schussing before you. You pause, take it all in—and wish you were helping Hurricane Katrina flood victims dig out of rotting houses. It was an alpine epiphany for David Campbell. The year was 2005, shortly after he founded the nonprofit Hands On Disaster Response, based in Carlisle, Mass. 'That's sick, but that's what I wanted,' Campbell says. 'I wanted to be in Biloxi with the natural disaster relief volunteers on our first mission.'"

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