#helpmefund

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to everyone! I hope everyone is lucky enough to be able to spend some quality time with the family over some delicious food today! Same goes for those of you who don't have thanksgiving this weekend. I for one am the luckiest of all because I have two thanksgiving food opportunities to attend, one dinner and one lunch...and hopefully lots of leftovers.....!!!

If anyone has a spare moment during their hectic food preparations or obligatory Sunday chillout time, could you watch a 1 minute video... I made it...and it's super low quality BUT it SUPER important :) I just launched my first ever kickstarter creative fundraising campaign (so nervous)...to raise some funds for a volunteer photography workshop for therapy, communication, advocacy and social change. I'm starting Nov.2....and need to raise some dollars to buy stuff for the workshop ( ex.cameras for participants, a projector) So far responses to the project have been...slow...humble beginnings hahaha.... so I'm reaching out to all my networks to help me make this happen!

The Campaign is here Pledges as high as $5 would be AMAZING... and just sharing the project with other potential sponsors who you think might be interested in supporting me would be a huge help too. I really really really want to have a chance to run a real workshop with the group I currently volunteer with ( mostly individuals who struggle with addiction and mental health issues ) - I wanna show up to our regular "photo class" with new equipment and a list of names of sponsors who made it happen, and say "look how many people care!!!" "Look how many people want to hear your voice!" "Look at the resources we have now...I can't wait to show you what's in store next....!"

Seriously though, that sounds lame... but it would be so rewarding for them to see that other people are investing in them, not just me...but lots! It might even inspire them to invest in themselves as bit more.....

If I run this workshop with wondrous success I'll also finally have the experience behind me to run more volunteer projects like it. It's so hard to get started because everyone wants to hear about the projects you've completed and their impacts on the people you've worked with...I just don't have that yet. When I do, I can finally use photography in a way that's truly significant to me..and I think really really significant to others. WHICH IS MY DREAM, MAN !!! HAHAH

So that's my little speech. Please help me out my network of awesome people!!! I really need your support with this.... THANK YOU <3