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SONIA COLLAZO, VOLUNTEER NETWORKING AND PRESENTATIONS COORDINATOR _(FEATURED ABOVE)_ After retiring from her job in conflict resolution for Philadelphia's Commission on Human Relations

where she had worked 27 years, Collazo knew she wanted to work in the Latino community. When she read that Congreso, a multiservice nonprofit for low-income local communities, was starting a

Friday group for older Spanish-speaking adults, she volunteered. Two months after she started, they began paying her to be the networking and presentations coordinator. Collazo finds

speakers and arranges presentations on topics such as living wills, voter registration and HIV/AIDS, and she uses her mediation skills to keep the diverse group simpatico. "I love what

I'm doing, and as long as I have my health and energy, I'll keep working," she says. Linda Rosso, a marketing consultant, decided to reimagine her promotional skills and

passion as a painter to assist fellow artists sell their work. Jonathan Sprague LINDA ROSSO, PAINTER AND MARKETING CONSULTANT Rosso was a marketing and communications executive for a

national public relations firm in San Francisco when the Great Recession hit. "It was a good time to step off the path and look at what I really wanted to be doing," she says.

While continuing to work in marketing, she took a painting course at a local college. When her oil landscapes began to sell, Rosso noticed that more accomplished artists were selling fewer

paintings than she was. She drew up a plan to help other artists market their work. Rosso continues to consult with companies and artists. "I've found the perfect job because I get

to do everything I love," she says. She now gets paid to use her marketing and promotion skills, helps artists sell their paintings and paints three days a week herself. She also has

time to do volunteer work. Her new idea: Start an online marketing website to help artists sell their work, with a portion of the sales going to charity. "I think I can help them make a

big difference in their careers," Rosso says. Bob Groves, former nonprofit executive, now finds his second-life joy as a teacher of human rights and English. Bill Cramer/Wonderful

Machine BOB GROVES, TEACHER In 2011, Groves, a nonprofit executive then in his early 60s, unexpectedly lost his job. "I struggled mightily," he says. "Suddenly, I was no

longer The Man I had been at work who people came to, and had to figure out how to fulfill myself." Groves took courses in poetry, improvisational acting ("to stretch myself")

and other courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Temple University in Philadelphia, one of 117 Osher programs on campuses nationwide that are designed to enhance the lives of

semiretired and retired people. He decided he wanted to teach. Now 30 older students take his course on human rights; he teaches English to a woman from Nepal and he gets to babysit his

2-year-old granddaughter every Thursday. If paid work came up, Groves would be interested but says he's "not actively looking for it." His wife still works full time.