are you struggling with how to give?
tara whitney’s recent project “whitney wells” is an amazing example of rallying around a cause and supporting it with time and funding. her entire family is on board — her kids even proposed ideas on how they’d like to contribute. Her post and call to action:

This year the idea [...]

last weekend, i flew to san diego, to photograph a couple families.  but what i want to write about here is what happened on the flight home…
i was glancing through spirit, the airplane magazine, and came across an article entitled your entrepreneur handbook. and it was there that i read this powerful message:
chase the vision, not the [...]

Are you ready to help create a smile?
Family Portrait Month is a national promotion during October, allowing professional photographers and families to raise money together for children in need of smiles.
If you are a member of PPA, you can support Operation Smile by participating in Family Portrait month starting in October. According to PPA, “the [...]

we wanted to share that this site is not just for photographers.  we’re two photographers that have come together, in the creation of the give ten project, but truly anyone can give.  in saying that, i wanted to share a couple non-photography stories of giving:
a while back, i was attending a workshop at balboa park, [...]

there are a million ways one can give, from a one-time giving project to long-term.  i wanted to share about one of my personal projects, a long-term project, where i gave to a family, who had a young boy battling stage IV neuroblastoma–an aggressive, difficult-to-treat, under-researched and under-funded childhood cancer.
my  journey with max and his [...]

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are you ready to give ten? or, feel like raising awareness for the cause?
we’ve created the give ten badge for you to use on your web sites, blogs, facebook pages etc.  to show your support for the project. simply copy and paste the following html code:
<a href=”http://www.givetenproject.org” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.givetenproject.org/images/givetenproject.png”border=”0″ alt=”givetenproject.org” width=”150″ height=”133″/>

i’ve seen operation nice before–and recently stumbled upon it again. their purpose certainly aligns with the give ten project and our mission. here’s theirs:

Don’t you love it when people go out of their way to be nice? Like when someone waits to hold the door for you. Or when a stranger waves you into a [...]