By Deborah Harkins

“It’s like putting a puzzle together—it’s exciting when you get it done," says Carol Lamberg, executive director of the Settlement Housing Fund, which builds affordable housing in New York City. "The neat thing is that you get to see the buildings. They’re up, they’re clean, there’s no graffiti, they’re safe . . . they’re there for you to see, unlike work in other fields, where you wonder if you’ve really achieved anything.”