Well the children are the future, and CNN's "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT" is taking a special look at some entrepreneurial kids in the series "America's Bright Future." CNN's John King has the story of a teen whose heavenly hats the give hope to cancer patients.

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JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Anthony Leanna looks and sounds like any other 13-year-old, paying attention to language arts at Bay View Middle school in Suamico, Wisconsin outside Green Bay. But Anthony is hardly typical.

After school, Anthony spends his time opening up boxes filled with hats he has received from companies and individuals just to repackage them to send to cancer patients who have lost their hair.

ANTHONY LEANNA, FOUNDER, HEAVENLY HATS: I know I'm putting smiles on people's faces and the only way to achieve your goal is to put effort into it. Without effort, you can't achieve anything.

KING: He came up with the idea called heavenly Hats at the age of nine when his grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

LEANNA: She had not lost her hair during chemo or anything, but my mom had showed me all the people who had lost their hair due to cancer treatment such as chemotherapy. And I decided to put a smile on their face by giving their hat to cover up what they had lost.

KING: And smiles is what he got from this cancer survivor.

KATHY EISENCHINX, HEAVENLY HATS RECIPIENT: Because when you're going through the chemo and radiation, you're not feeling well. And you really, you just -- you don't feel like dressing up and putting on the heavier wig or whatever and those hats were a godsend.

KING: Anthony started by collecting a few hundred has the from local stores to give to some nearby hospitals. But win a year and a half, the donations have exploded. He has received more than 25,000 has the and sends each one out individually to more than 100 hospitals nationwide, plus two hospitals overseas.

GLEN LEANNA, ANTHONY'S DAD: I would never imagine from what he started to begin with to where we're at today that he could ever start a program, that anyone could start a program to get this big.

KING: Now Heavenly Hats has taken over the Leanna's laundry room.

Anthony shrugs off the numerous awards he's received. His family says care and discipline are just his nature.

DARLENE CHARTIER, ANTHONY'S GRANDMA: Anthony always tells me, Grandma, you're my inspiration for this. But he's my inspiration.

KING: If you want to contribute to Heavenly Hats, check out the Web site at www.heavenlyhats.com.

John King, CNN.

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