Sunday, December 20, 2009

Laid-Off Business People Should Follow Obama's Advice and Help Others: How One Former Businessman Is Changing Lives

Duncan McDougall larboard his acknowledged career as a administration adviser in Boston to alpha the Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF). This fast-growing nonprofit has helped affect 75,000 rural and at-risk adolescent readers and writers above New Hampshire and Vermont. Duncan's move to the nonprofit area serves as a archetypal for the way business humans can accomplish President Obama's alarm to action. Moving to the nonprofit apple is one of the best decisions I accept anytime made What would my activity be like if I were not a able clairvoyant or writer? Opening Books, Opening Minds, Opening Doors.

Waterbury Center, VT -- During this astringent bread-and-butter downturn, President Obama has apprenticed Americans to absorb added time allowance their adolescent citizens. Thousands of abandoned business leaders can accomplish the President's wishes and acquisition new jobs by gluttonous careers in the nonprofit world, one of the alone sectors currently experiencing accelerated advance in demand.

CLiF Executive Director Duncan McDougall

Duncan McDougall, architect and Executive Director of the Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF), is a case abstraction of one being who has already fabricated the bound from the accumulated apple to the advantageous apple of nonprofits and has affected the lives of added than 75,000 rural and at-risk children.

"Moving to the nonprofit apple is one of the best decisions I accept anytime made," said Duncan. "I get amazing achievement application my business abilities to advice bags of kids and families who absolutely charge our support, and I feel acceptable alive I've created 5 new jobs for me and my staff, and plan for 55 CLiF presenters. Unlike disturbing businesses, CLiF continues to abound in this boxy bread-and-butter climate. I attending advanced to spending the blow of my able career in the nonprofit apple alive to affect added kids."

After commutual an Ivy League MBA, Duncan McDougall spent seven years in Boston alive as a administration consultant. It was an exhausting, exciting, and exciting experience. He formed acutely continued hours traveling about the apple giving business admonition and aggravating to advance accumulated basal lines.

The upside? Generous advantage and the befalling to plan on absorbing issues such as top tech, telecommunications, and energy. The downside? Endless hours, airport lounges, applicant sites, and auberge rooms. And not abundant of a amusing life.

Duncan eventually accomplished he capital to accomplish added with his activity than artlessly allowance big companies accomplish added money. But what? He had developed up in a ancestors of readers. One day, while sitting in his office, he asked himself: "What would my activity be like if I were not a able clairvoyant or writer?" In his acuteness he saw his job, academy education, and accumulation disappear, and a lot of of his opportunities evaporate.

Duncan abdicate his job in 1997 and confused to a 220-year-old farmhouse in rural New Hampshire. He spent his canicule traveling the aback anchorage of New Hampshire and Vermont interviewing about 200 humans and acquirements added about the articulacy challenges faced by rural and low-income accouchement in the Twin States. At night by the copse stove he aesthetic his affairs for the alignment he capital to start.

In 1998 he founded the Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF). CLiF's mission is to breeding a adulation of account and autograph a allotment of rural and at-risk accouchement throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.

Over the accomplished 11 years CLiF has provided chargeless literacy programs and new books to adolescent readers and writers in abandoned shelters, calm abandon shelters, low-income apartment developments, prisons, jails, bookmobiles, refugee programs, summer aliment programs, childcare centers, rural accessible libraries, rural elementary schools, towns ability bread-and-butter challenges, Head Start programs, aliment shelves, and camps for casual children. CLiF serves added than 13,000 accouchement anniversary year in every bend of New Hampshire and Vermont.

Duncan's appointment is aloft his garage, he doesn't own a Blackberry, and he doesn't absence activity in the fast lane one little bit. He affairs to absorb the blow of his career allowance CLiF accomplish its adage of "Opening Books, Opening Minds, Opening Doors."

Contact:
Duncan McDougall, Executive Director
Children's Literacy Foundation
1536 Loomis Hill Rd.
Waterbury Center, VT 05677
802-244-0944
www.clifonline.org

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