PPA Charities is the philanthropic arm of Professional Photographers of America. PPA Charities allows photographers worldwide to join together in helping others.

Join PPA Members Everywhere to Celebrate Smiles.

Get Your Business Noticed by Ideal Consumers.

Sign up NOW for the April 21 Charitable Promotion!

Open to all PPA members, it takes a donation of only $25 to participate in the April 21 Celebration of Smiles charitable marketing promotion that invites consumers to receive the gift of a mini-session and a 5x7 desk-size image in exchange for a minimum donation of $24 to Operation Smile. Choose another day if April 21 does not work for you.

When You Register, You'll Receive . . .
  • The Celebration of Smiles Marketing Guide that takes you step-by-step through how to market, prepare for and execute your promotion, along with a disc containing promotional elements and materials to help you market to your clients and prospects.
  • Your studio name and website link will be placed on the www.celebrationofsmiles.com consumer website.
  • You’ll receive weekly “timeline” emails so you’ll stay on track with marketing and operating your promotion.

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TO VIEW CELEBRATION OF SMILES INTRODUCTION VIDEOGo here
TO VIEW CELEBRATION OF SMILES FAQs VIDEOGo here

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Visit PPA Charity's "Celebration of Smiles" consumer promotional website at www.celebrationofsmiles.com.
Exclusive Benefits of Participation
  • Gain access to special offers from PPA vendors
  • Enter the PPA Charities Portrait Awards - open only to Celebration of Smiles participants
  • Win great prizes!
  • Lots more information to come . . .

Best of all . . .
You will gain the personal satisfaction of standing together with like-minded professionals to make the world a better place through the art of photography!
To learn more about Celebration of Smiles
Go here

It's Official: PPA Members Have Saved 2,000 Smiles!

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For the third straight year, annual donations to PPA Charities from members and friends have allowed PPA Charities Trustees to allocate a gift of $100,000 to its charitable partner, Operation Smile. The contribution was presented at the PPA Charities Celebration Gala on January 14, in New Orleans.

What's so special about this year's donation is that it brings the total of PPA member contributions to Operation Smile to $500,000! This milestone translates to 2,000 smiles that have been saved through the generosity of PPA members and friends.

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A perfect fit for photographers, whose daily business is creating smiles for their clients, Operation Smile's mission is repairing childhood facial deformities including cleft lips and cleft palates.

It takes only $240 to repair the smile of a child because the medical professionals and staff who provide these life-changing operations volunteer their services to Operation Smile.

Dr. William Magee Inspires PPA Members at IUSA

The high points of PPA Charities' Celebration Gala and Power of Charity program were the appearances of Dr. William Magee, co-founder of Operation Smile. Dr. Magee thanked PPA members for their generous support of Operation Smile and recounted some of the organization's remarkable milestone that have occurred since its founding nearly 30 years ago.

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Dr. Magee explained that Operation Smile has provided more than 2 million comprehensive healthcare evaluations and over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with facial deformities.

“There are no ordinary moments,” Dr. Magee said in explaining the circumstances that let to the founding of Operation Smile and the chain of events that brought PPA Charities and Operation Smile together. You can learn more about Operation Smile from Dr. & Mrs. Magee themselves by viewing the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz39y7vUvCg&feature=player_embedded
The Founder's Video


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In 2005, PPA Charities

named Operation Smile as its charitable partner. A perfect fit for photographers, whose daily business is creating smiles for their clients, Operation Smile's mission is repairing childhood facial deformities including cleft lips and cleft palates. 



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As of January 15, 2012,
PPA members have contributed

$0,000
toward the 2012
goal of a

$120,000
donation to
Operation Smile.




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Some part of it still touches my heart every day.
— PPA photographer Laurie Weaver, of Austin, TX, referring to the Operation Smile mission to Ethiopia she covered in May, 2011. To read about Laurie's mission and view her heart-touching images, Go here


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April 21, 2012

<Celebration of Smiles
Nationwide Promotion

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Click here to read a message to PPA members from Dr. William Magee, co-founder
of Operation Smile.

© 2012 PPA Charities