Attendees of NANPA’s 2019 Nature Photography Summit and Trade Show rose to the occasion for the NANPA Foundation – to put it mildly!
Nearly $22,000 was raised at the February event in Las Vegas, thanks to the $11,821 donated by attendees and the additional $10,000 that was pledged by several donors before the event as a match to donations secured onsite.
In addition to its fundraising campaign, the NANPA Foundation also engaged attendees in a game of “Dead or Alive” during Saturday’s luncheon. Participants listened to a list of famous individuals and had to correctly identify if the person was dead or alive to continue playing the game and having a chance to win the cash prize. Congratulations to Julie Gustafson who was the last donor standing!
2019 NANPA Summit Attendees Play Dead or Alive During Saturday’s Luncheon. Photo by Janice Braud
The NANPA Foundation is a separate nonprofit organization that provides resources to advance the awareness and appreciation of nature through photography. The Foundation funds NANPA’s high school and college student photography programs as well as awards grants for photo blinds to be built in public nature areas, conservation projects using photography, and for the study of photography in a higher education setting.
Money raised at the Summit will be used to fund NANPA’s 2020 High School Scholarship Program, the 2021 NANPA Summit College Scholarship Program, the 2019 Philip Hyde Grant and potential photo blind grant applications that are received.
NANPA Foundation Board Trustees Mary Jane Gibson and Sonia Wasco emcee the Foundation’s Dead or Alive fundraising game. Photo by Janice Braud
For more information on the NANPA Foundation and the programs that it supports, visit the Foundation’s website at www.nanpafoundation.org.
The Dead or Alive game raised $944 for the NANPA Foundation during the 2019 Summit. Photo by Janice Braud
A special thanks to the following donors who gave during the 2019 Summit:
Anonymous (10)
Barbara Adams
Betty Anderson
Roger Archibald
David Armer
Ragnar Avery
Peggy Baker
Alyce Bender
Jeffrey Botkin
Lynne Buchanan
Alice Cahill
Don Carter
John Craig
Michael Daniel
Richard & Susan Day
Steven DeHaas
Tom Duffy
Gary Farber
George Feehan – in memory of Peggy Feehan
Carol Grenier
Ronald Grzeda
Bruce Haley
Jane Halperin – in memory of Richard Halperin
Jeannine Hansen
Jeanne Hartman
Tom Haxby
Carl Henry
Sarah Herman
Jon Holloway
Greg Jaeger
Roger Johnson
Rick Kattelmann
Airdrie Kincaid
Richard LaBelle
Bill MacFarland
Susan McElhinney
Cindy Miller Hopkins
Ted Moreno
Marcia Mueller
Charles Needle
Lou Nettelhorst – in memory of Nancy Rotenberg and Pat Wadecki
Barbara O’Connor
Ted Orwig
Naiara Paiva – in memory of Richard Halperin
Dee Ann Pederson
Cheryl Pelavin
Richard Perkins
Patrick Pevey
Gabby Salazar
Michael Schertz
Sherry Schmidt
Karen Schuenemann
Jennifer Smith
Andy Smith
Jeanne Sparks
Larry St. Pierre
Michael Stearns
Karen Sullivan
George Theodore
Budd Titlow
Greg Vaughn
David Vellenga
Sonia Wasco
Wayne Waters
Robert Wilbourn
Andy Wilson