We've collected most of the FAQs for you into a single page, and hopefully you will find the answer to any questions you have here.
However, if there is something else that you need an answer on then don't hesitate to contact us and we will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible with an answer.
| Donating | Applying for Awards |
| Grants and Awards | Membership |
| Financial | Helping Out |
| Social Media | Sponsoring |
Anyone can make a donation online whether they are American Tax Paper, English Tax Payer, or wherever they pay tax! The only difference will be that when we launch the online donation capability, only US tax payers will be able to claim tax exemption on their generous gift. We are working on other tax jurisdictions such as Canada, UK and Australia, but these will not be launched just yet.
Absolutely. We would prefer it if you do as it helps us with planning our grants and budgets. You will find the monthly option right next to the one off option, but it is clearly marked.
$5 as a one-off donation, but whilst we welcome every donation no matter its size or frequency, we would hope that you could stretch to at least a the equivalent of a couple of Latte coffees – about $10!
As soon as the IRS provides our tax exempt status, all US donation will be tax exempt-able. We will be working to broaden this to other tax jurisdictions in the near future
We sincerely hope so. it is in our plan for early 2011.
The short answer is anyone. The slightly longer answer is it depends on the Award. For all our grants and awards we do not discriminate by age, sex, race or nationality. However for some awards – the Pro-NGO grant for example this is restricted to working photographers in partnership with an NGO and for the Mentoring grants these are restricted to members of the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers community – but this community is open to anyone.
Absolutely you can. We make no restriction at all on nationality.
You may apply for multiple grants, but you can only win one in any calendar year. We will make no comparative judgment between your applications, but we advise that you identify which type of grant or award you are applying for and then prioritize your applications accordingly.
We run the NGO Assignment Fellowship grant and the FFH Fellowship annually. We will run the workshop and the mentoring grants quarterly from 2011. If donations allow we will increase the number and frequency of the major grants to more than annually.
For the FFH Fellowship, mentoring and workshop grants, our judges are all members of our advisory council, membership of which is by invitation only. Each has been invited because of their reputation, experience and standing as a humanitarian or travel photographer. For the NGO
We will notify you by the email address that you registered on the site with.
In our first year we will do the FFH scholarship and the NGO-Pro grant. We will then look to expand to the Mentoring and Workshop grants as soon as possible, but no later than January 2011.
Working photographers who are registered on our site and who make a joint submission with an NGO.
Click on the Register option at the top right of the home page, and make sure that you select NGO from the Type of Membership drop down box during registration
You need to approach one of the photographers and make a joint submission. This could be a member of our Advisory Board, a registered photographer on our site or a photographer that you already use (in which case they will need to register).
The IGVP is the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers. This is an online community dedicated to helping photographers use their visual story telling capabilities for great humanity and to help world peace. Their site is a paid for membership site (it is only a couple of dollars a month) and their governing Guild are made up of some of the worlds finest humanitarian photographers and visual storytellers – many of whom sit on our advisory council.
Our relationship is one based on shared objectives and goals. However there is absolutely no legal, investor or financial connection between the two organizations. We love what they do and just want to help. Simple as that.
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Through reputation mainly. We know most of the leading photographers in the field. We build close relationships with then first and then when we are sure there is a string bond between our aspirations, their work and our shared love of humanity, we pop the question.
Of course. we’d be delighted to find out more about you. Just head over to the contact form, and drop us a line and we’ll be in touch. Or of course you can DM us on twitter or email us. Great! we’re looking forward to hearing from you
In our first ear it is difficult to know because there are set-up costs and so on. But our aim is that a maximum of 7% of our income goes on operational costs ie 93% if money raised is re-distributed by grants, This is unusually high and we do this by running a virtual company, making use of the web as much as possible (like Skype) and some good old fashioned cost management.
We report annually exactly where all the money went. We do this formally to the US government but also we put everything on line for you to see. We believe in complete transparency.
To you – well, to you and to the US Government. But i our hearts, to you. You are the ones that make this possible and we believe you have every right to ask whatever you want to know and to have full transparency of what we are up to.
Fantastic. Check out our sponsors page, where you can download the Sponsors pack, and also there is a link there to the sponsors form. We’d love to work with you and to hear how we could do great things together. We do tailor each of our sponsorship deals so we are very happy to discuss with you all sorts of permutations.
Blog about us, tweet about us, invite friends to the Facebook page and maybe even put a blog badge on your site.
