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Sophie Chambers of Antrim started going to Andy's Summer Playhouse at age ten. She says she gets "pure happiness" from being onstage, and she now plans to study acting in college.

While his son David was undergoing treatment for leukemia, Dick Cyr met many families who would sleep in their cars or in the hospital lobby to stay close to their kids. After David died, Dick helped create David's House so families would have a place to stay when their kids weren't able to leave the hospital.

Laura Tucker of Bow suffered a spinal injury in a car accident at age 23. She says she'd be stuck in bed without the support she gets from Granite State Independent Living. Instead, she's able to contribute to her church, research her family history and live in her community.

John Cross of Newmarket was part of New Heights programs as a kid, and now teaches cooking to a new generation of New Heights kids. He says New Heights participants learn their community cares about them.

Dick Foss of Gilmanton has been working in the woods for "a long time." He's entrusted his 196 acres to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests so the woods will remain woods for a long time to come.