Link: http://www.booksforthebarrios.comsource: apps.facebook.com/causes
Full Name: Books for the Barrios, Inc.
EIN: 68-0241582
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Website: www.booksforthebarrios.com
Address: 1125 Wiget Ln
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Mission: BOOKS for the BARRIOS is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening elementary school education in the Philippines so that all children "even the most disadvantaged" can receive a great education. Our award-winning approach emphasizes local community involvement in the Philippines and the United States. Our programs are based on very real needs in both the Philippines and the U.S. Some of the concerns our programs are designed to address include economic development through education, environmental conservation, landfill diversion, environmental education and character education.
Description: The backbone of the Books for the Barrios(BftB) approach is the redistribution of high-quality educational materials from the United States to poor, remote schools in Philippine barrios. Our national National "Model-of-Excellence Schools" and National Teacher Training Convention programs assure that these materials are used effectively. BftB also involves U.S. children in breaking the cycle of poverty, promoting awareness of poor conditions in other countries and sustaining the future viability of our work. To that end, our American Schools Program reaches out to U.S. children to donate supplies, pack shipments and learn about the children abroad who benefit from these efforts.
In addition to addressing poverty and access to education, our efforts benefit the environment: We make productive use of large volumes of material that otherwise would become landfill, and emphasize environmental education of both Filipino and U.S. children throughout our programs. BftB regularly advises individuals and organizations interested in replicating our model.
Please visit our website, www.booksforthebarrios.com , for detailed descriptions of all of our programs.
Link: http://www.changemakers.comAbout Changemakers
Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. It provides solutions and resources needed to help everyone become a changemaker and presents compelling stories that explore the fundamental principles of successful social innovation around the world.
Changemakers is building the world's first global online "open source" community that competes to surface the best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions. Changemakers begins by providing an overarching intellectual framework for collaborative competitions that bring together individual social change initiatives into a more powerful whole.
To keep the framework dynamic, the online Changemakers's community identifies and selects the best solutions and helps refine them. The result is global action frameworks, drawing on the work of social entrepreneurs, that seed collaborative action and visibility on a global scale — making a big difference, field by field.
Changemakers's Idea Reviewers are regular contributors of commentary and analysis that ensure lively and rich online discussion.
The "open sourcing social solutions™" model aims to challenge the traditional focus of issues like human trafficking and conflict resolution with a broader, more complete set of stakeholders. As such, each one serves as a platform for building a practitioner- and investor-engaged community that sparks new waves of innovation around problems stuck on conventional approaches.
As the diverse group of stakeholders comes together and sees the way their work and concerns overlap and inspire each other, unexpected and important outcomes typically ensue that the Changemakers model makes possible but could never predict. Changemakers Collaborative Competitions have produced new partnerships between India’s largest bank and one of India’s largest rural women’s programs; the connection of thousands of rural farmers to low-cost health care providers; and the scaling of a Thai affordable housing solution by the world’s largest cement manufacturer. These are just three examples that represent the strength inherent in a changemaking community. And they signal the way an entire sector can broaden its focus and integrate a powerful set of solutions and stakeholders bent on change.
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Link: http://www.garyrumackphotography.comfrom their website:
about the photographers - linda and gary rumack, m photog., F-PPC
Gary and Linda Rumack have been working as a popular husband and wife team for over 20 years. Together they have photographed countless weddings, family groups, and high school seniors during their career.
The Rumacks have photographed weddings from California to Florida. On wedding assignments, brides very much appreciate the woman’s touch that Linda adds to the wedding day.
The Rumacks have won numerous awards, locally, regionally and nationally for their work, earning Gary a Master’s Degree by the Professional Photographers of America. They have been exclusively awarded Photographer of the Year by the Arizona Professional Photographers Association three times in succession. They have also been awarded the highest print score ever to an Arizona professional photographer. In addition they have seven times been the recipient of the prestigious Kodak Gallery Award, with Kodak purchasing the use of four of their images.
Link: http://framedshotscameraclub.blogspot.com/Framed Shots Camera Club (FSCC) is a camera club based in Manila, Philippines. It was founded in October 1994 by a group of photography enthusiasts who just finished their basic photography workshop. It is affiliated with the Federation of Philippine Photographers Foundation (FPPF). The club meets every first Sunday of the month at the PBSP building in Intramuros, Manila.
from the blog of master edwin loyola
Link: http://www.pyke-eye.comfor steve pyke, photography is an investigation into the nature of being.
extraordinariness of ordinary things by the guardian.
Link: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/story/0,,2282181,00.htmlamanda hopkinson
monday may 26, 2008
the guardian
his most famous book, The Concerned Photographer (1968).
As he wrote, in 1992. in the introduction to what amounted to his visual autobiography, Cornell Capa: Photographs: "I am not an artist and I never intended to be one ... I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point and, perhaps, even make a difference."
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