Blogs - Help-Portrait Community

The future of the Community Section

As many of you know, the community section of the Help-Portrait website is powered by Ning, a white-label social networking platform. As we've begun to plan the 2010 event, we're encountering some serious drawbacks to this platform and have begun looking for alternative solutions. As a result, we wanted to give you fair warning that this area will be changing in the next few months as we get ready for the 2010 Help-Portrait season. The good news is, our new platform will import everything that e… Continue

Added by Kyle Chowning on April 30, 2010 at 10:12am — 2 Comments

Orphaned Kids in Ukraine

I am passionate about photography and also have a small charity to help orphaned kids in Ukraine. During my visit to my hometown in Ukraine, my farther and I visited Nikolaev orphanage and took portraits for children there. Children were surprised and very happy by this gesture, and I must say I would not think of this great idea if not for Help Portrait! Continue

Added by Tatiana Kotova on January 15, 2010 at 3:38pm — No Comments

"Help-Portrait Is..." Video Guidelines Update

The guidelines have been updated. Please take a quick look everyone! http://www.help-portrait.com/blog/42 Continue

Added by Kyle Chowning on December 18, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Northern Virginia/Washington D.C.: Central Union Mission Washington DC.

The Northern Virginia/Washington D.C.: Central Union Mission Washington DC group had a phenomenal day. The final numbers are finally in.... 151 portraits of a total of 382 people. A huge Thank You to Penn Camera for their generous donation to provide the printing for the H-P event. The Central Union Mission is a men's shelter providing long term and overnight shelter, along with other needed programs to underprivileged residents and individuals in Washington, D.C. You can go here… Continue

Added by doug stroud on December 17, 2009 at 12:22pm — No Comments

Tampa People Rocked It!

What an absolutely incredible job the Tampa teams did. The day was a complete success. The Tampa groups took over 175 portraits The Tampa General Team reported a GREAT day. It was emotionally trying at times as they worked with some terminal patients and their families, but what an awesome opportunity and service! A word from Team Leader Chuck Levin; In a nutshell, the event was a great success. We took photos of all types of patients. One was done in a special room, the others in the conferen… Continue

Added by Fla. Museum of Photographic Art on December 16, 2009 at 3:36pm — 3 Comments

Help Portrait Is... - We want your help

UPDATE: We now WOULD like for you to say "Help-Portrait Is..." before you complete the sentence. Sorry for the change. We can edit as we need to but it's good to have too much instead of too little. Also, if you've already filmed or submitted your video, no worries. No need to do it again. As long as the rest of you say the full sentence... THANKS! Another change: We DO need to know if you're participating to get an idea of how many submissions we'll have. So please leave us a comment below!… Continue

Added by Kyle Chowning on December 15, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

My little Help-Portrait story!!!

This was single handedly the most beautiful thing I've ever been a part of. I had tried to get a few other local photogs on board, with no success but charged forward solo anyways. I am so HAPPY I did. I contacted the local women's shelter and asked one of the staff if they could choose 5 families (single mothers with children) that would benefit from this project. It was not only wonderful to make the women feel beautiful... it was IMMENSELY gratifying to watch the children feel special. We di… Continue

Added by Erin Wallis on December 14, 2009 at 8:17pm — 8 Comments

Portland OR

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Added by carl jacobson on December 13, 2009 at 11:42am — 8 Comments

It's a wrap!

As the 12/12/09 event comes to a close, we can't thank you enough. We've been blown away the experiences we read about and can't wait to hear more!

In case you are wondering, here are some statistics we are tracking to-date:

17,200+ pictures taken
1400+ photographers
2720+ volunteers

And this is with only 43% of locations reporting. If you haven't submitted your information, you can do so here: http://bi

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Added by Kyle Chowning on December 12, 2009 at 11:44pm — 10 Comments

Statesville Help Portrait - Absolutely Wonderful

What an AMAZING day! It was a pleasure working with everyone at our event, I can't think of a better group to share this experience with. I heard nothing but great comments from every "client" that I spoke with. From entry to exit, our team made these people feel special and I believe that each of them touched someone's lives in a positive manner - that was what this event was all about. Just a couple of quotes from today: "This is great, I haven't been able to have a picture made in over 15… Continue

Added by Ron Gobble on December 12, 2009 at 11:34pm — 1 Comment

Can't stop smiling.

An organizer of a local church lunch program asked if I would be interested in taking some photos of the people who come for the lunches. The idea was that they could use the prints as Christmas cards. I thought it was a great idea. A few days later I stumbled across the Help Portrait site. At the time I wasn't really planning to log in or join. Mine was going to be a pretty modest setup in the church lunch room taking snapshots of people as they gathered and ate. It didn't seem like that big o… Continue

Added by Esther Vincent on December 12, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

New Music download link

We've had a great response for the music download, so we are moving it to a new location. Here it is: http://mattstanfield.com/hp Continue

Added by Amy Stanfield on December 10, 2009 at 11:33pm — No Comments

Let's keep this going!

Hey guys, my name is Sean Wrench. I'm the founder of the Forsaken Generation Youth Homeless Project (www.forsakengeneration.com). We are honored to be a part of this event. I just wanted to encourage everyone to keep this going. I know the premise to this is it's only a 1 day event. Which does make it easier to get people to help, but I encourage you to keep the momentum going. Our organization has already decided to do this event for Valentine's D… Continue

Added by Sean Wrench on December 9, 2009 at 11:07pm — 9 Comments

FREE music download from Help Portrait video (text video)

For those that have asked or are interested, here is a FREE download available from the Help Portrait promo video. (the one with the text, not the run-through session( Enjoy! http://soundcloud.com/mattstanfield/sets Continue

Added by Amy Stanfield on December 8, 2009 at 11:42pm — 2 Comments

An Important Update - Please Read

We're 5 days away from the official Help-Portrait day. To-date, over 7000 of you have signed up to participate at over 600 locations in 58 countries; and these are just the people we know about. How fun is this. All we can say is, wow!

As you prepare for the weekend ahead, we are needing your help with a few official housekeeping items:

First, after your event is completed, please take a moment to fill out the post-event

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Added by Kyle Chowning on December 7, 2009 at 10:51pm — 6 Comments

Dallas, TX : Behind the Scenes.

Here is a detailed account of the Help-Portrait event preparations in Dallas, TX. Thanks to Austin Mann for organizing this and sending the information in. We feel certain this will help you as you plan for your event. __________ Hey all, We did our Help-Portrait event a little early and fortunately it turned out to be quite a success so I wanted to share with you guys some of the things we did to prepare for it. It all started a few months back when my fri… Continue

Added by Annie Downs on December 5, 2009 at 11:18am — 8 Comments

HP Wellington, New Zealand on AIR

Hi everyone, thanks to my friend and "coordinator" Ronja, we managed to sneak into Wellington Access Radio yesterday and got to talk a little bit about the project. You can listen to the podcast at http://www.accessradio.org.nz/community_zone.html (click on Yenping and Laura hear about a series of awesome projects celebrating the lead up to Christmas- Help Portrait...). We are also in touch with some local newspaper who are really… Continue

Added by Brenzen Fuerst on December 2, 2009 at 11:08pm — 1 Comment

Royce Rumsey's Email

This is how it starts. This is how one-person can make a difference. One person -- and then hordes of others! My dear colleague, Royce Rumsey, sent a casual email around to a few of his compatriots. I am thankful that I am on such a list! Royce mentioned the work of Help-Portrait (which I had just heard about a week ago). So it registered again. That must mean something, I thought. And I kept thinking of how we could best deploy this co… Continue

Added by John Schulte on December 2, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Last Call on Help-Portrait Apparel Orders

Hello Help-Portraiters! In case you've been holding out on ordering H-P apparel, we wanted to let you know that we will be placing our last stock order on Monday. While we will be ordering extras, if you want to ensure that you get a T-shirt or Jogger, please place your order today. Quantities are limited and once they're gone, they're gone. If you're wondering if you can get your order in time for the event, here are our suggested o… Continue

Added by Kyle Chowning on November 29, 2009 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Hitting the wall? Here are some tips ( from a former fundraiser and business owner) to get what you need & More!

I have seen this come up on the boards often: "We're not a 501c- so they wont help" Not all organizations qualify for the 501 c charitable organization, there are a TON of charities which are not 501's- schools for example are not charities and they get donations....Im not a 501 c and I get donations! I own a web based online store and I get hit up HOURLY for donations. Everyone does- you have to keep that in mind when you "pitch" this. Companies are not just entities- they are people.… Continue

Added by Nicole T Gailliot on November 25, 2009 at 7:17pm — 8 Comments

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