Stand With Haiti-Make a Donation and Compete for a Signed Canvas Print

I’ve been brainstorming ways of using my creative endeavors to help Haiti earthquake victims throughout the week with my girlfriend and at one point we were talking about a canvas print I had made of a Caribbean beach scene and what I would charge for it. It occured to me today that I should hold a competition for it, where the person who donates the most to Partners in Health receives the print. Rather than hold an auction where only one person pays, I thought that the collective efforts of many people competing with their donations would raise more for Partners in Health.

About the Fundraiser

I’m offering to provide a 50-34 inch mounted canvas print of this sunset scene I photographed while visiting St. Lucia in November 2009 to the person or organization who makes the largest donation on my page for Partners in Health. Click on the link or the First Giving widget in the right sidebar on this page to donate. Donors may re-visit the page and make additional donations to in order to compete to be the highest donor in order to receive the print, which will be personally signed by Kevin Jacobus. Whoever has made the largest contribution by midnight January 31st will receive the print. If there is a tie for donation amount, a drawing will be held among the highest donors to determine a winner. Donations are securely processed by First Giving and are sent directly to Partners in Health.

About the Photograph

This image is an HDR image of a view of Jalousie Beach on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. This HDR (High-dynamic-range) photograph was achieved by capturing multiple standard photographs using exposure bracketing. The images were then merged into a single image and tone-mapped to reduce the dynamic range, or contrast ratio, of the entire image, while retaining localized contrast to match how the human eye perceives a scene-essentially to represent the whole dynamic range while retaining realistic color and contrast.

Help Bring Aid to Haiti

Thank you for joining me to bring aid to the people of Haiti

The scope the disaster is truly enormous, and a tremendous influx of immediate aid is needed to avert an even greater loss of life. Partners In Health has been working in Haiti for nearly 25 years. Our local team is already working to ensure PIH’s coordinated relief efforts, leveraging the skills of more than 120 doctors and nearly 500 nurses and nursing assistants who work at established sites throughout Haiti.

How to Donate

Donate via my page on First Giving- it is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to support my fundraising efforts.

Many thanks for your support — and don’t forget to forward this to anyone who you think might want to donate too!

Rally for Ryan

I am excited to announce that I am taking part in a fundraiser for Ryan Cavanaugh of Nashua Thursday evening!  Ryan is a 10 year-old boy who has been afflicted with Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue, his entire life. He already had open-heart surgery once when he was 21 months old.

Ryan will undergo open-heart surgery to replace two heart valves and his aortic root.  His surgery is scheduled for March 12.  Unfortunately, his family found out that the surgery was needed only within the past few weeks, after a recent MRI. Doctors said the surgery would have to be scheduled as soon as possible.

A parent of a student at his school (Charlotte Avenue Elementary School) Nicole Dane and the principal have organized a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for Thursday, March 5th.  Read about it in the local newspaper, The Telegraph.

I will be there with a studio lighting set up to do quick portraits for $20 each and I am donating 100% of the proceeds to Ryan’s medical costs and a photo book for Ryan. 

I’m going to have people who are photographed write their best wishes to Ryan and I will include them in the photo book.  I’m also working with the school to have kids in his class do drawings which will be included in the book for Ryan.  My hope is that some of his classmates can participate in presenting the photo book to him. 

If you are interested in going, it’s at the Charlotte Avenue Elementary School in Nashua Thursday night at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. 

I spoke with the principal today and she said there’s at least 150 people coming, and they have food for 600, so hopefully we can raise more money with portraits to match as closely as possible the funds raised from the spaghetti dinner.