John Neylon, ombudsman of the New Hampshire Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, presents Jannette 'Nettie' Olson, RN at the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, center, with a Patriot Award, for her support of Amanda Bailey, right, a…

Catherine Edison, left, of the Portsmouth Rotary Club's Basic Needs Committee, and fellow Rotarian Mark Sullivan, right, present checks totaling $3,600 to Margie Parker, second from left, pantry director for the Seacoast Family Food Pantry, and Diane Giese, the pantry's…

Maureen Manning, left, president of the New Hampshire Association for Justice, and Ellen Shemitz, right, the association's executive director, present Charlie Sherman, executive director of New Horizons for New Hampshire, with a $7,855 donation, which was raised at a holiday…

Last month, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway and the New Hampshire chapter of Speedway Children's Charities donated more than $150,000 to 47 organizations throughout New England that support underprivileged children. Representatives from the groups accepted the funds during a Gift…

Barry Leonard, senior vice president for commercial services at Laconia Savings Bank and chair of the Boy Scouts of America 20th Annual Lakes Region Good Scout Award Luncheon, congratulates Rodney Dyer, senior partner at Wescott, Dyer, Fitzgerald & Nichols, P.A.…

Maureen Lemay and Quentin Keefe, left, co-owners of Regency Mortgage Corp., celebrate with their staff at the groundbreaking of Regency's new home in Hooksett, which is scheduled to open in June.

Shelley Bruin, left, manager of Friends of the Manchester Animal Shelter, accepts a $2,529 donation from Claudia Rippee and Ed Aloise, owners of Republic Café, who also donated more than $2,400 to the Greater Manchester YMCA. Each year, the restaurant…

TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable arm of TD Bank, has awarded $100,000 to the Laconia Area Community Land Trust for its Lochmere Meadows Renewable Energy Project, which will be used to install renewable energy systems at the 28-unit affordable housing…

New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility held a roundtable discussion at Monadnock Paper Mills in Bennington to discuss ways New Hampshire businesses and organizations can benefit from the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental initiatives. Pictured, from left, are Michelle Veasey, executive…

Developers and supporters gather at an open house to celebrate the opening of Families in Transition's newest housing development in Manchester, which will provide 12 units of permanent, supportive housing for formerly homeless individuals with disabilities and their families.

St. Mary's Bank has donated $15,000 to the YMCA of Greater Londonderry in support of its capital campaign to build the town's first outdoor community swimming pool and a state-of-the-art recreation facility. From left, Tom Champagne, the credit union's director…

Ann Peters, CEO of Lamprey Health Care, presents an award of appreciation to Ken Holmes, left, president of North Branch Construction, project manager Eric Hastings and project superintendent Julianne Cardinal, in honor of North Branch's work building the new Lamprey…

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.