We wanted to let you know about a cool music sampler especially for filmmakers and photographers. It’s a free download through Noisetrade, but any tips and proceeds will benefit Help-Portrait directly! The purpose of this sampler is to give you a taste of the selection on The Music Bed, and to give you an idea of some of the songs you could use in your next project. If you aren’t a filmmaker or photographer, no worries… Just download it, fall in love with it, and then tell your creative friends about it!

About The Music Bed

The Music Bed is a music licensing company for Filmmakers & Photographers. They license music for anything from wedding & non-profit films and slideshows, to commercial and independent film projects.

Posted on Mar 19, 2012  |  Category: Sponsor Spotlight  |  1 Comment
  • Ron Ron

    Nice, thanks!
    Ron | 30/03/2012 4:55 pm

Chances are the first place you visited after hearing about Help-Portrait was this website. But this website wouldn’t exist without the generous development support of Flosites. We began working with them because of mutual friends, but the professional service was a match made in heaven, as the Flosites team specializes in brands, blogs and websites especially for photographers.

H-P founder Jeremy Cowart describes them as “Amazing. They’re on the other side of the world but they’re always available and super laid back and friendly. If they were here, they’d be the type of people that I would hang with in my downtime… great people.”

Their time, design and input has been invaluable to the Help-Portrait movement, as our website, online brand and online community are foundational for us. They’ve been instrumental in piecing all those aspects together so Help-Portrait forges ahead as a movement – existing beyond our online tools.

Posted on Feb 20, 2012  |  Category: Sponsor Spotlight  |  No Comments

socialrain

Coordinating a global effort like Help-Portrait takes a lot of behind-the-scenes efforts – efforts, that without the help of a service like Social Rain, would be untraceable. We’d have a hard time knowing our reach. Social Rain offered their services to us this past year through Carolyn Haggard, managing partner at Rain Cloud Media, the maker of Social Rain Technology. She was a volunteer for H-P last year and she offered their social media analysis technology for our us for free this year.

They not only helped us set up, manage and track all of our social media outlets, but they used their team to help us think strategically and even executed some of the campaign, according to Trey Bowles, Help-Portrait’s volunteer over strategic partnerships.

“They have gone above and beyond in all cases to support us and help make H-P as successful as possible in our social media strategy,” Bowles added. “They have empowered us to be able to more fully and comprehensively share the message of H-P around the world, connecting people, telling the story of H-P and spreading the vision and mission online making a larger impact across the globe.”

We highly recommend checking out Social Rain‘s social media tools for your company, project or next campaign. Thanks, Carolyn and the team at Rain Cloud Media, for your invaluable contribution to Help-Portrait and your help in touching lives around the world.

Posted on Feb 17, 2012  |  Category: Sponsor Spotlight  |  No Comments

emma

Emma is a relatively new email marketing company with a team committed to giving back, sustainability and innovation. Inc. magazine recently named Emma one of the 50 best small company workplaces, and it’s no surprise. Each year, they give away 25 Emma accounts (through the annual Emma 25 initiative awards, benefitting small, deserving nonprofits that our customers nominate).

Help-Portrait was the beneficiary of one of those awards last year, and we were honored to be chosen and named among 24 other amazing nonprofits. Help-Portrait was given a free account and we were able to work directly with one of Emma’s designers, Taylor Schena, to develop a custom email stationery.

Thanks for your work, Taylor, and to Emma for the honor. We appreciate what you’ve done for us, but also your commitment to give back and make a positive difference.

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Posted on Jan 20, 2012  |  Category: Sponsor Spotlight  |  No Comments

Today on the blog we’re giving a big shout-out and some link love to Lori Isaac Mahon and Stacie Vining of Merge PR. Lori volunteers as Help-Portrait’s publicist and has brought our story to the media in incredible ways.

Lori has been part of Help-Portrait from the beginning. As part of the launch team, Lori has worked tirelessly to get support from the press for Help-Portrait, and each year thereafter. Her passion to help spread the word about this movement is nothing short of remarkable. She’s a major reason Help-Portrait is what it is today. Just this year we were covered on CNN, ABC, Wall Street Journal, Paste magazine, Relevant magazine and many others.

Thanks, Lori, for you love, support, help and professionalism. We appreciate all your efforts to get Help-Portrait more exposure so that we can touch more lives.

Posted on Jan 13, 2012  |  Category: Sponsor Spotlight  |  2 Comments
  • Norm Norm

    I took a pic of an older woman in her late 70's maybe. on oxygen. we sat her down and took off the oxygen took some shots and sent her to the printer line. With portriat in hand she looked up to the HP volunteer and told her she hasn't had a picture like this taken since she was in high school. that is what this is all about right there.
    Norm | 15/01/2012 1:21 am

  • Stanley-Carl du-Pont Stanley-Carl du-Pont

    Big-up Lori and Stacie! We may be [just] an ocean away, but we value and benefit too from all the great work you have done. Blessings ;-)
    Stanley-Carl du-Pont | 15/01/2012 7:32 am