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Barry has also been honored as a community leader through his dedicated work with numerous nonprofit organizations. He has served as chair of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and founding chair of the Manchester Regional Community Foundation. In 2016 he was named NeighborWorks’ Goodwin Outstanding Neighbor. In 2007, he was the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year. In 1999, he received Manchester’s Good Samaritan Award and the Manchester Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year. Barry’s recent efforts have been focused on Manchester Proud, a City-wide movement, whose mission is to advance Manchester’s public schools through greater community engagement, understanding, and support.

For ten years following the fall of the Soviet Union he played a lead role in building community foundations across Europe, and for seven years worked on the World Bank leadership team as the bank invested in, and tested, the role of community foundations and private philanthropy in the developing world. He co-chaired the Saguaro-Seminar “Civic Engagement in America” together with Robert Putnam at Harvard University and with him co-authored “Better Together: Restoring the American Community,” a book analyzing the grassroots development of civic engagement in the United States. In the political field, Lewis participated in the civil rights movement in Mississippi and was an assistant to New York City Mayor, John V. Lindsay. Among his singular achievements were seven year tenure as the MC of the International Zucchini Festival, and a stint as wine steward and personal assistant to John Wayne on his yacht in the Mediterranean. Lewis was listed among the Top 50 of nonprofit executives by the “NonProfit Times” and holds honorary doctorates from seven universities. Since retirement in 2010 Lewis has taken an active leadership role on several major New Hampshire public policy issues, including the lead role in opposing repeal of New Hampshires’s marriage equality law, continued to partner with Robert Putnam on emerging social capital issues, and acts as senior fellow on a national project working with selected community foundation ceo's.

Prior to this role, Dr. MacDonald served at senior levels of the federal government, leading multiple successful growth and transformation efforts and personally driving the execution of strategic priorities for two Cabinet Secretaries. At the Department of Homeland Security, she led efforts on non-traditional aviation technology, spearheaded efforts to improve health care quality and equity in the immigration detention system and managed the establishment of a joint task force on domestic extremism. Most recently, at the Department of Veterans Affairs, she led the organization’s nationwide transformation into a hybrid delivery and payor system; redesigned strategy for a $300 billion infrastructure portfolio; led COVID-19 staffing and operations efforts through the height of the pandemic; and oversaw preparedness efforts for passage of the largest Veterans benefits legislation in a generation. She served as a spokesperson for the enterprise, engaging VA’s 400,000 employees, the White House, federal and state interagency partners, Congress, labor unions, and the media. Prior to federal service, she served 11 years in the Minnesota National Guard and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, earning a Bronze Star for high profile mission achievement and volunteer humanitarian medical work. She completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of California, Los Angeles and medical school at the University of Minnesota.

Heather lends her time serving on multiple Boards within the community, including the Air Service Support & Enhancement Team (ASSET), Manchester Proud Council, Manchester Development Corporation, NextGen Manchester Resiliency Council and Amoskeag Industries. Heather is honored to have been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Granite State Outstanding Women’s Leadership Award. A New Hampshire native with deep Manchester roots, Heather began her college studies at Saint Anselm College and earned a Neuroscience degree from Brandeis University. She lives in Bedford with her teenage sons, two cats, one dog and a bearded dragon. Her favorite place to be is on a mountain ridge.

Sindiso has served as a senior researcher in the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where she also taught African Customary Law. She was a resident scholar at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. She has published in academic and popular media on justice in law and society, women’s, economic, social and cultural rights, governance, participatory democracy, and the South African constitution, and has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Women in Science Award for the Development of Rural Women. Sindiso also serves on the Boards of New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the St. Paul’s School Advanced Studies Program.

His knowledge of organizational development and ability to organize has allowed him to seek the common ground to effect needed modifications in operation and program systems. Through his career, he has demonstrated an ability to move an organization into new dimensions while accommodating the human side of the enterprise. He is recognized by his colleagues as a leader, mentor, and agent of change. In November, 2012 he was elected to serve his first term in the New Hampshire House of Representatives serving on the House Education Committee. He currently serves as the House Education committee chair.

Steven is active with many organizations, including: Children’s Public Health Fund Board, ��ɫ��Ƶ New Hampshire, Healthy NH Foundation Board, Cheshire Medical Center Board, and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Board.

For most of her personal life and professional career, she has devoted herself to a wide-range of diversity and social justice causes and endeavors which include teaching cultural ethnography courses, serving on and leading various diversity-related committees and boards, and creating and strengthening diversity and inclusion services in various institutions and within communities and school districts. Although she has been immersed in diversity, equity, and inclusion work for many years, Nadine believes she has only begun to scratch the surface of available knowledge and research, viewing herself as a lifelong learner and devotee of diversity and social justice issues. Nadine’s current main initiative is creating a Center for Neurodiversity at the University of New Hampshire.

Alan is active with many organizations. He is the vice-chair and a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the workforce opportunity council, member of the board of directors of the New Hampshire Center for Non-Profits and is a board member of New Hampshire Public Radio.

Following that, Steve went to UNH, getting a degree in communication and journalism. For the next 10 years he worked as a broadcast journalist filing stories of both local and national importance, including Jimmy Carter’s re-election campaign and the Iran Hostage Crisis. He is now retired following 30 years of producing and directing “non-fiction” TV commercials and documentaries and brand consulting. Before and after his retirement, Steve served as a board member for ��ɫ��Ƶ New Hampshire while producing marketing and recruiting videos for ��ɫ��Ƶ HQ. During that time, he attended cyzygy in LA and Little Rock where he met Bryan Stevenson the founder of the Equal Justice Institute. Inspired by him, Steve eventually became involved in EJI’s efforts to document, recognize and honor victims of racial terror. Steve lives in Portsmouth with his wife Karen Mazzari. Together they have 3 children and 2 grandchildren.