PPA Charities

Proud PPA Photographers standing together to help others

PPA Charities is the philanthropic arm of Professional Photographers of America. PPA Charities allows photographers worldwide to join together in helping others.
  • About
    • Volunteer with PPA Charities
    • Fundraising
    • Honors/Awards
    • PPA Charities Committees
    • Application for Funding
  • News
  • Dream Studio GiveAway
    • Dream Studio GiveAway Prize List
    • Dream Studio GiveAway Vendors
    • Dream Studio GiveAway Ticket Seller
    • Dream Studio GiveAway Rules
  • Operation Smile
    • Become A PPACH Operation Smile Studio
      • Operation Smile Studio Downloads
    • PPA Smile Stories
    • Smile Videos
  • Get Involved
    • Celebration of Smiles Day
      • Celebration of Smiles Downloads
    • Family Portrait Month
      • Family Portrait Month Downloads
    • Anytime Promotions
    • Texas School Challenge
    • PPACH Consumer Sites
  • Vendors
    • 1% Difference
    • Become a VIP!
    • 2013 VIPs
    • Vendor News
    • Corporate Donors
    • PPA Charities Studios
    • Celebration of Smiles Contributors
    • Roll of Honor
  • Our IUSA Events
    • “Cooking it Up with PPA” Celebration Event
    • Dream Studio GiveAway
    • 5K Fun Run
  • Affiliates
    • PPA Affiliate Ambassadors
    • PPA Charities Affiliate School Scholarships
    • PPA Charities Speaker Team
  • Impact Award

Celebration of Smiles Day

Celebration of Smiles Day

Dream Studio Giveaway

Dream Studio Giveaway

Order Susan Michal’s ‘Flowers In Transition’ to benefit Operation Smile

Order Susan Michal’s ‘Flowers In Transition’ to benefit Operation Smile

Make a General Donation to PPA Charities

Donate

In 2005, PPA Charities named Operation Smile as it's 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. In 2014, PPA Charities also partnered with Dando Amor, a non-profit organization founded by photographers that is dedicated to improving the quality of life of orphans living in third-world countries.

stacks_image_940_1"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 some of our photographers' missions and view their heart-touching images, go here.

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2016 PPACH Events

January 9, 2016
PPA Charities Celebration Event
at IUSA Atlanta

January 10, 2016
2nd Annual SuperHeroes
5K Fun Run
at IUSA Atlanta

January 9-12, 2016
Dando Amor Shoe Drive 
at IUSA Atlanta

January 12, 2016
Dream Studio GiveAway
winner drawn at 2:30pm
at PPA Charities booth at IUSA Atlanta

April, 2016
Celebration of Smiles Day

April 24-29, 2016
"Texas School Challenge" Fundraiser

October, 2016
Family Portrait Month

2015 PPACH Trustees Meetings
January 19    February 2
March 17-18  (New Orleans)
May 4    June 8
August 24    September 21  
October 6-7  (Atlanta)
November 9    December 7