Three vintage clothing stores along Sixth Street may share a customer base, but each store retains a clear identity, which helps foster a certain cohesion and friendship among the shops.

Fabian Bennett is the engagement specialist for Lodestar Day Resource Center in Phoenix. After 10 years as a drug dealer, Bennett reached out for help at the Human Services Campus. He said the services at the campus have given him hope and the opportunity to change his life.

Red Hut Coffee is bouncing back from the negative community response after owner David Marsh posted a photo of him posing with supposed homeless men on Facebook. The experience has inspired Marsh to give back to the community.

Kelley Benham and Tom French had a harrowing experience as parents of a premature newborn who was not expected to live, but Benham's feature series on these events, nominated for a 2013 Pulitzer Prize, shows there can be a happy ending after the most impossible circumstances.

Desiree Crawford is a military veteran and single mother of a 6-year-old girl. After high school, she served as a medical lab technician and medic in the U.S. Army and toward the end of her enlistment, she got married and became pregnant. She moved back to Arizona and decided to enroll in ASU's nursing program with help from a scholarship program.