Lisa Christie, center, executive director of the Nashua Soup Kitchen, and Norma, right, a longtime soup kitchen volunteer, accept a $10,000 grant from Jim Tollner, director of account management at Harvard Pilgrim, on behalf of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care…

Lynn Gelinas, vice president of government banking at Citizens Bank, helps Gov. John Lynch distribute food at the New Hampshire Food Bank's Mobile Food Pantry event in Manchester. The Citizens Bank Foundation provided a $50,000 grant to the food bank…

Representatives from the Ted Williams Foundation, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, and the Fisher Cats Foundation accept a check representing the $155,680 raised for the three organizations at the 2011 Granite State Baseball Dinner, which was presented by Northeast Delta Dental.

Harriman, a full-service architectural and engineering design firm, has won a 2011 Building New Hampshire Award for its design of the Idlehurst Elementary School in Somersworth, which includes sustainable design features that it estimates will save the school $29,000 annually.…

Dianne Mercier, New Hampshire president of People's United Bank, presents Lawrence Yerdon, president of the Strawbery Banke Museum, with a $5,000 check on behalf of the People's United Community Foundation, the bank's philanthropic arm. The grant will support History Within…

Rick Brenner, left, president of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and Joseph Reilly, president of Centrix Bank, hold a check representing the $112,196 raised for charitable organizations in 2011 through the Centrix Bank Community Outing Fundraising Program, which lets local…

Maureen Beauregard, president of Families in Transition, accepts a check from Dick Anagnost, president of Anagnost Investments, which -- through the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority tax credit program -- has donated more than $36,500 towards the expansion of…

Holy Rosary Credit Union has closed its first home loan in conjunction with The Housing Partnership, a Portsmouth affordable housing developer, which is rehabilitating five properties for first-time homebuyers using federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds from the city of Rochester.…

The Prescription Center, an independent, full-service pharmacy in Concord, has been honored as an Outstanding Corporation by the Northern New England chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Council on Fundraising. Pictured left to right are Angel Matthews,…

Elm Grove Apartments has donated $10,000 to The Way Home to help with the construction of its Laurel Keys development, which will provide permanent supportive housing to disabled and homeless veterans. Pictured with the donation are, from left, Mary Sliney…

James Dunphy, president of Hampshire First Bank, presents a $2,500 donation to Jeanine Tousignant, CEO of the Manchester Community Music School, to support the school's New Hampshire Youth Jazz Ensemble.

During a hearing of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade -- where he was testifying about the status of Internet gaming in the U.S. -- Charlie McIntyre, executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery,…

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, third from left, visits with Manchester Community Health Center president Edward George, physician assistant Igbal Mohamed and Dr. Laura Fry, its medical director, to find out about the challenges facing MCHC as a result of budget…

In the days and weeks leading up to the expected January vote by the New Hampshire House on the latest expanded gaming proposal, former Republican state Sen. Jim Rubens, chair of the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling, says he…