Author Archives: Karri

Help-Portrait in the news

Help-Portrait Milwaukee managed to get some local press in the Patch article Fox Point Man Steps Behind The Camera For Families In Need. There’s also this article, Creating a Lasting Image, about founder, Jeremy Cowart, that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. And finally, this blurb on Photojojo emphasizes how important a portrait can be...

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Ready…Steady…GO!

Tomorrow starts the Big Weekend.  Appropriately timed, seeing as how we are approaching the giving season. Here is where Help-Portrait Milwaukee is giving this year: Friday Repairers of the Breech ::  St. Ben’s Saturday Meta House ::  Pathfinders Sunday St. Ann’s ::  Hope House ::  Mercy House Its still not too late to help, though! ...

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Donation Drive: Repairers

As a part of the larger project this December, we are also doing a clothing drive for Repairers of the Breach, a Milwaukee grassroots homeless outreach and provider of the area’s only daytime shelter and resource center for homeless people. Every year so far, we have individually donated to the charities we serve, but this...

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Help-Portrait 2011…using our cameras to give, not take portraits

Its all systems go for 2011!  The dates are set for the weekend of December 9-11.  So far, our confirmed sites include St. Ben’s, Repairers of the Breach, Meta House, Pathfinders, Hope House, St. Anne’s Center, and Mercy House. We’re always looking for help. How can you help? Many different ways, my friend. Many ways....

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