Archive for the 'Volunteer Work' Category

Jun 16 2008

Project Homeless Connect #22

Those of you who read this blog semi-regularly know that I volunteer for an organization here in San Francisco called Project Homeless Connect. Every 6 weeks or so PHC holds an event at a major venue in town where homeless service organizations and homeless clients meet. In a word, it’s amazing. You’ve really never seen [...]

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Apr 25 2008

Happy Birthday, San Francisco SPCA

Last weekend the San Francisco SPCA celebrated its 140th anniversary and I was asked to photograph it for them (I tried to get past the irony that they shared their anniversary date with the 1906 earthquake)
It kicked off on Friday with speeches by SFSPCA president Jan McHugh-Smith, Assmemblyman Mark Leno and others along with appearances [...]

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Jan 10 2008

Project Homeless Connect #20

Published by Mark Rogers under Volunteer Work

The project homeless connect folks put on their 20th event at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this week.
 
It was my second one and I continue to be amazed and awestruck at how smoothly these things go despite all the moving parts and, in this case, an excelerated timetable (they put this on just a month after [...]

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Dec 06 2007

Project Homeless Connect

Published by Mark Rogers under Volunteer Work

Contrary to popular belief and to the title of this blog I actually do photograph things besides dogs and pets. On December 5th I had the honor of attending the 19th Project Homeless Connect event held at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in downtown San Francisco.
These events are held here every 6 weeks or so [...]

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