Dogs in Danger needs your help!

Need a quick end of the year donation to off-set your taxes? I HIGHLY recommend the place where we got Cody, our amazing Husky-Lab mix pup (see my Facebook page for photos of our awesome dog!) Below is the charity’s call for donations in a last push for 2012.  If you don’t want to donate, how about adopting a Dog in Danger? As the saying goes, you can find your next best friend at your local shelter!  -Jamie
               Thank You For Adopting From Us!

Dogs In Danger Rescue wishes you and your pet a very happy, healthy holiday season!

We do not receive any government grants, and your
donation is tax-deductible! Unfortunately, we receive very few
donations throughout the year. PLEASE consider helping
us this year. Every and ANY amount counts!!

Our small groups works extremely hard to save so many lives.
This year alone we have successfully saved about 1,000 animals
from high kill shelters in the US. We are not able to do so
without your continued support!

We are constantly finding ways to improve our 501c3 non-profit
rescue. Here are a few areas that need funding: vet care, medicine, toys, cleaning
supplies, vaccines, donations to shelters we pull from, spay/neuter,
and further licensing in various states to help us grow! If you would like to make
your donation towards a certain cause, please let us know.

There are numerous ways you can donate.
Paypal.com: Our email address is kiss499@yahoo.com
Snail Mail: Dogs In Danger Rescue, 2071 Johnson Lane,
Seven Valleys, PA 17360
We will also gladly accept any new or used items such as:
blankets, towels, bowls, toys, crates, and of course much,
much more!

Feel free to send us an email at dogsindangerrescue@gmail.com.
Thank You For Helping Us Help Them!

Sincerely,
Sarah & The DIDR Team

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Jamie’s Charities: Find a home for baby Bugsy.

Okay, gang, as you all know, I frequently post suggestions for charities. My sister is a foster parent for the Humane Society of Indianapolis and she wrote the following letter. If you’re looking for an older, potty trained, socialized dog who is used to being in the house alone for 7 hours while you’re at work, is well mannered and a total snuggler, my sister is willing to drive to you! Read below & thanks for indulging this! -Jamie

(PS: I know this has nothing to do with photography but I thought I’d help her find Bugsy a good home!)

Dear Friends and Family:

Last fall, I fostered a pup named Bugsy (photos below). He is a GREAT GREAT  two- year old American Bulldog mix.  He has gone to training and can walk on a lead, sits, understands “not yet” when going out of a door or eating and LOVES to be around people! He still needs a bit a work on commands but mostly because he’s so excited to try cuddle on you that he forgets sometimes. He is housebroken, up-to-date on his shots, gentle and free to a good home.

I had a family for him so I went through the process to adopt him with the idea they would be able to take him starting this year. Sadly, due to their other dog’s situation, they are unable to give him a forever home. I would gladly accept him into the Rose household….IF……I had not adopted a special needs puppy, Griffin, to be a companion to my older dog, Deano. Because Bugsy is also young, training and keeping up with the two of them is more than one person who works full-time can handle.

While I love this baby dog dearly, Bugsy was never supposed to be a full-time member of my family. I am hoping with all of your help we can find him a great home where he will be loved and will shower you with happiness and affection right back!

Please feel free to cross-post all over! I am willing transport him to anywhere across the country if he can find the right loving forever home! Please feel free to contact me with any questions: 317-694-5523.
Thank you,
Sherry Rose

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Jamie’s Charities: Ripple Effect Images

The next of my Jamie’s Charities suggestions for the end of the year giving is the amazing Ripple Effect Images. Read more about them here and the links to donate are below.

Remember: If you donate $10 a day for the rest of the year, you’d get a tax deduction & spend less than a night out for dinner!

Ripple Effect Images is a team of journalists dedicated to documenting the plight of poor women and girls around the world, and highlighting the programs that are helping to empower them, especially as they deal with the devastating effects of climate change. Working closely with scientists and NGOs to identify both the needs and the innovative programs that are helping women and girls, Ripple Effect journalists make strategic trips to document these programs. They then donate their photographs, video, and stories to the Ripple Effect Images Archive . This Archive is made available, at no cost, to our partner aid organizations and to policymakers who are working to help poor women as they deal with the tremendous challenges caused by climate change. The extraordinary Ripple Effect team includes a MacArthur Genius Fellow, as well as Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, and National Humanities Medal winners.

Donate to Ripple Effects here and change a woman’s life.

Ripple Effect Images is a registered 501 (c) (3) organization

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Jamie’s Charities: Public Radio & TV

Okay, it’s not a stretch to think a photojournalist would love NPR & PBS. We tell stories in pictures, they tell stories in words or video. It’s all news but the delivery is equally hard to master. If you’ve ever had to sit in rush hour commute without XM or Sirius, you will learn: there are a lot of screaming, bellicose, rude disc jockeys on the air. NPR is the cool breath of calm information on the air ways. Likewise, shows like Frontline help me understand topics like the Financial Crisis and Folk Alley helped introduce me to my new favorite singers, The Wailin’ Jennys & Sarah Jarosz!

No matter how broke I was as a start up freelancer, I still donated to NPR. Some years it was $10. Most years it’s $10-15 a month. I spend more than that at the movies and this way I get more benefit!

And this year I’ve learned one more value of my membership: podcasts! I highly recommend podcasts from Frontline, Wait Wait Don’t Tell, Fresh Air, The Splendid Table &  The Writer’s Almanac. Makes plane rides and airport layovers so much more enjoyable!

Consider donating here:

http://wamu.org/support/donate

http://www.folkalley.com/support/

http://www.npr.org/stations/donate/index.php?ps=st273

https://www.pbs.org/donate/pbs-foundation/

Remember: If you donate $10 to a charity every day until New Year’s Eve, you will spend less than $100 and get a tax benefit for those donation!

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Jamie’s Charities: The Legal Stranger

In a bold move, a Jamie’s Lister requested to be put on the Holiday Giving list and I think this kind of chutzpah should be rewarded! It also helps that the project involves two of my favorite folks: Amanda Lucidon and Ed Kashi. Here are the details on Amanda’s project and remember: $5, $10, $20…it all helps make people’s dream come true.

THE LEGAL STRANGER: DOCUMENTING SAME SEX COUPLES & THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT

I’ve been working on a project for the past two years about the impacts of the Defense of Marriage Act on same-sex couples, which denies legally married same-sex couples 1,138 federal rights. Through photos, video, audio and journals, the project follows five personal stories as same-sex couples try to navigate the convoluted legal system for parental rights, survivor benefits, immigration status, health care and estate benefits. The work can be seen on the website: http://legalstranger.com

I also partnered with Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit media company started by Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur which uses multimedia storytelling to advocate for social change. Through this partnership, I’m able to offer tax-deductible donations through our fundraising campaign: http://igg.me/p/51647?a=320240

I know times are tight so if people can’t afford to donate, they can still help by sharing the campaign link with others. They can also share/follow the stories:

On our website: http://legalstranger.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/legalstranger

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Legal_Stranger

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Jamie’s Charities: One Mango Tree

One of the best ways to feel good about all this crazy commercialism in today’s holiday season is to purchase fair trade goods. And the beautiful purses, jewelry bags, clothing and accessories of One Mango Tree make it very easy to be selfish and also do good in the world!

Check out their amazing collection here: http://www.onemangotree.com/

All goods are made by women in Northern Uganda who work to support their family. The very motivated DC-Ohio girl Halle Butvin had a dream five years ago to start OMT with local seamstress Auma Lucy. Suddenly, they had more women apply for work than they knew what to do with and more orders than they ever expected. Read their story and you’ll know why OMT gets my business every year!

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Jamie’s Charities: Madison House

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

While you’ve heard a lot of appeals from me over the last year, I wanted to highlight a few charities from now until the end of the year that do good in the world and have especially touched my heart. If you gave $5 to one charity a day until the end of the year, you’d spend less than $100 and have a larger tax deduction!

First up, Madison House.This amazing charity was started a dear friend of mine and Chris. Here is their mission.

The Madison House Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by JaLynn and Gregory Prince and named for their son Madison, who is autistic. Now 21 years old, Madison faces a daunting challenge over the next two years, at which time he will no longer be entitled to year-round education and training within the public school system. He will be an adult, and will face another six decades of challenges that are impossible for him alone, but laden with the great possibilities if he has the right kind of guidance and assistance. Madison has the potential for living an enviable lifestyle, holding a full time job in a protected environment, and making a contribution to society rather than being a burden on it. The alternative? Slip through the cracks, as countless thousands of his predecessors have done, or become unwanted burdens on their extended families after their parents leave the scene.

The mission of the Madison House Foundation is to identify the lifelong needs of adults with autism and through education, awareness, and advocacy, fill those needs. The smile on Madison’s face can be permanent, as it can be on millions of other adults with autism. Please join us to keep them smiling.

You can learn more and donate her: http://www.madisonhousefoundation.org/how-you-can-help/

And remember, this is the season of giving gifts. So what better way to honor the spirit of the holidays than to give a gift to a stranger!

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Jenna needs your money! :)

Reposted from Heather H’s newsletter appeal:

Please Help Support All Thrifty States!

In the Name of All Things Green, Up-Cycled, Thrifted and Reused … Please Help Jenna Complete Her Project

Local DC photographer, Jenna Issacson Pfueller, embarked on a 50 state, U.S. tour, working to document the random stuff that American’s throw away.  The project is called All Thrifty States.  Since launch, Jenna has visited Portland, OR and Seattle, WA … all the way to Madison, WI and Chicago, IL … and that’s only the halfway point!

Jenna needs your help to complete the circuit.  Jenna decided to document the wonderful and bizarre things that Americans deem useless enough to give away.  Here’s what happens when someone rents an RV (called HaRVey), gets Goodwill® in on the game plan and starts collecting items a’la Brett Farve fan shirts, old Commodore 64 keyboard‘s and pimp cups.

With Kickstarter funds quickly running out, she needs your help to get back to Phoenix, AZ.  According to her latest blog she’s running out of gas money and needs fundage to get from the Southeast back to Phoenix where she is due on August 8 to turn in the RV. Support the project and shop the ATS store online!

Got change?  $20 from several different donors … aka fellow thrift store lovers … would be more than enough.  Or if you’re feeling generous … join All Thrifty States donor, Joseph, who met Jenna a few days back and generously provided $200!  Way to go Joseph!

If you want to donate or follow Jenna’s travel adventures, checkout her blog online at allthriftystates.com.

We’re working to join Jenna when she hits the southeast corridor, so any funding would greatly be appreciated.  She will be hitting TN around the 21st, so let’s give her a TN welcome and help her get home. Donations can be submitted here.

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Charitable & Free Trade Holiday Shopping

If you’d like to see Momenta’s suggested charitable giving guide for this year with local and international groups who offer fair trade goods and the great feeling of helping change a life, please check out our holiday giving appeal at:

http://bit.ly/MomentaCares001

Happy Holidays!

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Please help a fellow photog.

Long time WHNPA member and Washington photog Al Stephenson and his wife Barbara have mortgaged about everything they have to fight their son William’s cancer.  And they need $50,000 more to keep their son alive.

William, 22, was attending Arizona State, I believe, when they had to move him to Houston for treatment — it is very serious. William has been tentatively accepted for a clinical trial that evidently their insurance will not cover. The hospital wants insurance coverage or $300,000 up front to begin treatment. According to Al they have raised closed to $250,000 by borrowing from family, cashing in their IRAs and mortgaging what they had left.  They are about $50,000 short.

Al was a longtime shooter for LA Times Photo Bureau Chief Bernie Boston here in Washington. He has also been a lifelong member of WHNPA .  Anything we can all do to help financially would be most appreciated.  The Stephenson’s never thought to ask  for help and have kept their need to immediate family.  WHNPA and all of us in the membership would like to help their family a bit, if possible.

Al and Barbara have not thought of establishing a fund as they have been primarily focused on William.  They have a temporary apartment in Houston so they can get William to treatment and meet as necessary with doctors. Therefore, WHNPA is setting up a fund that you can contribute to by sending a check or money order to:

Whnpa

Po box 7119

Ben Franklin station

Washington DC 20044/7119

Check can be made out to WHNPA if you wish to remain anonymous and you can put “Al Stephenson” in the memo.

Or put the name “Al Stephenson” on the checks and send directly to WHNPA.

Please, please consider helping. Five, ten or twenty dollars can all add up.

We are a family in photography and family helps each other in rough times as well as good.

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