Every now and then an opportunity comes along where we can all help somebody and it doesn’t cost anything, not money, not energy and barely even time. This is one of those events!
Cameras for Kids Foundation is in the running for $100,000 from Cars.com and all it takes is all of us to click on [...]

A lot of my “job” these days is just being a contemporary version of the old town crier. For those of you who weren’t around then, (Just beating Scott Bourne to the punch on the fact that I’m older than him!) the town crier literally had only one job, to spread the news shouting it out as [...]

Every now and then you read about a project where creative people from different disciplines combine their efforts.  This next contribution to Charity Fest is pretty unique and brings together a composer with a photographer.
The story was sent to me by Michael Allen, a professional photographer from InDesign Creative.  His “partner in crime” is [...]

Charity Fest started last year, because I was being asked at every marketing program, “How can I get started in working with a charity?”  So, I thought it would be helpful just to run a series on the blog, giving people ideas on things they could do in their community, with or without a camera [...]

I’ll be the first to admit I’m a sucker for just about anything to do with pets.  I loved the fact that Janine Memon-Dietz wrote about working with abused animals.  Her Charity Fest story was the very first one in the pipeline, just minutes after I posted the call for this year’s stories.  She’s also the [...]

PWSPI kicked off the first step in its launch yesterday. One of the features we want to incorporate right from the beginning is a charitable arm of the new association. It was an easy decision: a portion of every membership fee will go to our charity division with donations rotating to different charities.  Most important of all we’ll be looking [...]

Yesterday I dropped off the first of what I hope will be many donation checks to Akron Children’s Hospital.  This first donation of $1620 was made thanks to Clay Blackmore and the attendees at his Akron PhotoFusion Revolution Workshop on October 10.  Ten percent of the gate was going to the hospital, but Clay decided he [...]

Almost a year ago I wrote about the importance of giving back to your community.   It’s such an important part of your efforts to build your brand that it deserves a few more comments.   As business starts to pick up you need to make sure you don’t lose sight of how much it can help you build your [...]