Category Archives: Giving Back
Relay For Life Fundraiser – May 7th, 12-5pm
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Relay For Life Fundraiser – Two Dates: April 3 & April 10
25 Minute Slots Available
We’re taking advantage of this beautiful weather and going outside. Grab your kids, heck, grab your dog too and let’s have some fun! A portion of your package will benefit Relay For Life so spread the word! Sessions will take place at a beautiful Almaden location. The information will be emailed to you after you secure your booking. Balloons, tutu’s and teddy bear’s oh my!
Call the studio to schedule your time:
April 3
10am, 10:30am,11am, Break, 3pm, 3:30p, 4pm, 4:30pm, 5pm, 5:30pm
April 10
10am, 10:30am,11am, Break, 3pm, 3:30p, 4pm, 4:30pm
Click here for the Mini-Session Packages.
Cancer affects us all…Let’s find a cure! Team Charlie’s Angels. Charlene Chavez Photography proudly supports Relay For Life. We also help organizations by offering a fundraiser at the studio or at your location. Contact us for more information.
Have a great day!
Charlene
Charlene Chavez Photography
1261 Lincoln Avenue Suite 114
San Jose, CA 95125
(408) 931-6005
Now I Lay me Down to Sleep is a non-profit organization that raises funds for families who have suffered a loss at birth to capture remembrance and to help the family heal by providing free professional photography services.
Call the studio today to schedule your appointment and know that you are helping this organization. Included in the $25 session fee you also submit one image from the session to enter the Child Model Search contest. If you do not want your child entered in the contest you can still use the $25 Session Promotion.
Other Perks:
Grand prize winner will receive a $2500 savings bond, $2500 travel voucher, and a $100 Target gift card. 2nd and 3rd place will each receive a $500 savings bond and a $100 Target gift card. For full contest details, rules, and prizes, please visit the charitymodelsearch.org website.
Snaps all around to my good friend Kara, the owner of the new studio Rising Sun Pilates, who is offering some great deals on classes. Kara was a member of my Almaden Relay For Like Team and through her generous donation of time she helped rasie a total of $1687.00 for the year for the American Cancer Society!!!! Kara is still offering classes that are benefiting the American Cancer Society so it’s a win win for you and them!
Kinda moving slow these days? Feeling a bit achy breaky after an evening walk? Then you need to give her a call.
Thank You Kara for being such a wonderful team member and good friend!
You can reach Kara at:
kara@risingsunpilates.com
Team Charlie’s Angels will once again host the Annual Relay For Life Tennis Fundraiser. If you’d like to walk with me on June 12, please click here to join my team or donate to a great cause. Thank you Leticia Crouzet-Pascal for co-hsoting with me!
I’d like to kick start the New Year with my Relay For Life Fundraiser. Yes, you read that right, 30 minutes of session time for only $30. You can purchase one for your family, your sister, your friend whom ever you can think of. The entire $30 session fee goes to the American Cancer Society for Cancer Research. All you have to do is go to my Charlie’s Angel page, click to donate $30 for each session you wish to purchase, and I will receive a confirmation of your donation.
Your money is well spent. 30 minute session + tax write off = GREAT DEAL!!!
Here are a few details regarding the 30-4-30 Promotion:
1. The sessions must be used before November 1, 2010.
2. Session times will remain at 30 minutes and are not to be combined.
3. Choose from select dates for an “In studio, High Fashion Session”. Please check my calendar link above for updates.
4. A travel fee may apply depending on location of session.
5. This offer ends March 1, 2010 so start spreading the word.
6. Not to be combined with other offers or promotions.
RELAY FOR LIFE
I would like to personally invite you to walk with me and if you can’t, please consider donating to my team and get a 30 minute session out of it! This Sunday, 1/17, the Relay For Life Kick-Off Rally takes place, 2-4pm at UnWined, and I will be there helping out and signing up members for my team – The Charlie’s Angels.
The Relay For Life walk this year will be Saturday 10am to Sunday 10am, June 12-13 @ Leland High School.
Thank You in advance for your donations {Big Heart Hug}.
Charlene
I am very blessed and thankful! I have a wonderful husband, great kids and we’re all healthy and one happy unit. I am thankful for the house we live in, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, the wonderful meals we eat and of course we are blessed with having work too. 3 out of 4 that is, since my younger son is playing sports his last year in high school he’s exempt from working. Yes, we are blessed!
We don’t take for granted what we possess but sometimes we forget in our busy lives that other families are less fortunate. There are many wonderful people who really make a difference with coat & blanket drives, food drives, bicycle programs, clothing closets and the list goes on…
“Giving is Awesome” is another way to help out a family. Kristen Kalp of Essential Imagery and a friend photographer in one of my photography forums, created this awesomeness and over 500 photographers went crazy last year donating their services nationwide. Last year I participated and sadly, it fell through. The family name given to me was set to have portraits done in July. Not only family portraits but I was going to document their daughter’s Quincenera, 15th birthday celebration. Unfortunately, I lost contact with them. No forwarding address or number, gone! I hope they are doing well!
I’ve registered to help again for next year but I need your help.
Please help me find a family who qualifies with the following:
{Thanks Kristen for your wording.}
You know someone. You know someone who’s experienced a tragedy, is struggling to stay afloat, is raising kids while holding down more than one job, or is volunteering selflessly despite extenuating personal circumstances. You know someone who can’t afford custom photography, but who would cherish it this holiday season. You know someone who deserves a year-round reminder of their family’s spirit, love, and beauty.
You know someone. I guarantee it.
I want to know who they are, and I want to give them the chance to experience complimentary custom photography — $950 worth, to be exact (includes waived session fee). Whether it’s canvas or albums, prints for Grandma, or a slideshow to watch over and over, it’s in your power to give them the artwork they deserve this holiday season.
Oh, and the best part? The person who nominates the winner receives a $200 print credit. What better reason to show some love could there possibly be, people?
The rules:
* You cannot nominate yourself, and the person nominated must sincerely be incapable of purchasing my services. (Being unable to make mortgage payments for a two-million-dollar-vacation-home in Paris does not qualify as sincere financial need.)
* The nominee must reside within 100 miles of San Jose, CA. Tell me who you know, what they’re experiencing, and why they deserve my artwork. Please include a way to contact both your nominee and yourself as well.
* You must e-mail me the full story with the nominee’s contact information : charclc@yahoo.com
The winner will be called the first week of January — get nominating! I can’t wait to read all of your entries!
Open your heart to someone this holiday season — and thanks for giving me the opportunity to open mine.
Warmest,
Charlene Chavez
AVNG Coat Drive
Tonight I will be at Amatos Pizza, (located at Meridian/Redmond in South San Jose), collecting coats from 7-9pm.
Please stop by to support our coat drive and say hello…and don’t forget to bring a coat.
Happy Holidays!
Charlene
