A group of drunks.

The Sober Service Awards were created by five of us, with more than seventy years of combined sobriety between us.

There's me at sixteen years, two friends at eight and thirteen, my girlfriend at four, and my sponsor, the elder statesman at thirty-four years. We go to a lot of AA meetings. We fellowship hard. We've sat in a lot of folding chair circles in a lot of church basements, and we've watched a lot of people come back to life.

Somewhere along the way we noticed something.

The folks running the rock climbing clubs. The one who books the trivia nights. The mural project that takes over a community center for a weekend. The re-entry job program that gets someone into a paycheck after twenty years away. The student group that just decided to notice, care, and help.

None of these people are famous. Most of them are barely funded. All of them are doing real work.

So we built this. The Sober Service Awards are a directory. A love letter. A thank you note to the people doing the real work.

If you know someone who deserves a Sober Service Award, a program, a facilitator, a weird little thing happening in your town that's saving lives, shoot us an email. We'd love to hear about it.