Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The collect.give Book

The charity-based online photography gallery collect.give announces the release of a book celebrating the project's first 50 photographers - all of whom have pledged to donate 100% of their print proceeds to
charities they've selected. Since 2009, collect.give has raised over $28,000 for a wide variety of charitable organizations, by selling affordable, limited edition photographs.


Description
128 pages, softcover, perfect bound, printed by MagCloud.

Design By
Heidi Romano


Photographs By
Jane Fulton Alt, Malu Alvarez, Jonathan Blaustein, Mark Brautigam, Jesse Burke, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Katrina d'Autremont, Amy Eckert, Matt Eich, Jon Feinstein, Sarina Finkelstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Max. S. Gerber, Meggan Gould, Andrew Hetherington, Geoffrey Hiller, Peter Hoffman, Jon Horvath, Ben Huff, Dave Jordano, Stella Kalaw, Melissa Kaseman, Liz Kuball, Shane Lavalette, David Leventi, John Loomis, S. Billie Mandle, Kerry Mansfield, Mark Menjivar, Kevin J. Miyazaki, Annie Marie Musselman, Colleen Plumb, Susana Raab, Shawn Records, Ellen Rennard, Dalton Rooney, Jonathan Saunders, Manjari Sharma, Daniel Shea, Kelly Shimoda, Emily Shur, Allison V. Smith, Aline Smithson, Brea Souders, Sarah Sudhoff, Jake Stangel, Lacey Terrell, Sonja Thomsen, Susan Worsham and David Wright.

Essays By
Crista Dix, Darius Himes, Lisa Hostetler, Rachel Hulin, Miki Johnson, Larissa Leclair, Wally Mason, George Slade, Amy Stein and Alison Zavos.

To Benefit
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). In keeping with the collect.give mission to donate 100% of proceeds to charity, all profits from this book will be donated to the RSPCA, a charity chosen by the designer Heidi Romano.

Price
$22.00

To Preview or Purchase
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/290686

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Collect.give Print Releases: Sarina Finkelstein and David Leventi


Today, December 1, photographers Sarina Finkelstein and David Leventi are each releasing editions of prints for sale on collect.give: http://www.collectdotgive.org.

100% of the proceeds from Sarina's print sales will go to Doctors Without Borders.
100% of the proceeds from David's print sales will go to The International Rescue Committee.

So, please buy a print for a small price ($40) and make a huge difference in the lives of others!

And, if you can't contribute, please help by spreading the word through all of your networking channels!  (Email, blogs, Facebook, Twitter...) 


collect.give ("collect dot give") was founded by photographer Kevin Miyazaki in December 2009 as a place to collect contemporary photography and donate to worthy causes at the same time.  The photographers featured on collect.give have pledged to donate 100% of the profits from their print sales to worthwhile causes they support.  A new print is added to the website every two weeks.

Additionally, at midnight on December 1, in honor of the one-year anniversary of collect.give, Kevin Miyazaki has offered special "December Giveaways" to anyone who purchases a print before the end of December 8.  This is a link to find out about special gift certificates, free prints and more:

http://collectdotgive.org/december-giveaways-2/
Please Note:  In order to win, buyers need to email Kevin to let him know what and when they purchased:  kevin@collectdotgive.org

Thank you for all of your help and have a wonderful holiday season!

--Sarina Finkelstein

Photograph by Sarina Finkelstein. Del Oro Theatre, Grass Valley, California, 2010. From the series "The New 49ers."

Photograph by David Leventi. Cyclone, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 2005.