If you haven't heard already, Round 2 of our Student Production Grants is now open. To alleviate the up-front costs faced by students working with non-profits, each $1000 grant will be awarded to an exceptional student-non-profit collaboration so that non-profit storytelling may be advanced through visual imagery.

The theme of the second round is Environment and Animal Welfare. Partnering non-profits may be focused on environmental issues such as awareness and conservation, environmental justice, sustainability, environmental responsibility or animal welfare.

The second round of Student Grants closes this Sunday, May 29th. Read the guidelines here.  

Photo by James Morgan for World Wildlife Fund, 2010 Activist Awards Student Finalist. See all student photo essays here.    

The Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) supports international development by enabling communities to determine their own priorities and paths towards social and economic opportunities. FSD provides its partners with training and key tools to ensure their goals are practical and sustainable, and link them with catalytic resources that minimize external aid dependency.  

FSD is looking for folks who are traveling to Latin America (Nicaragua, Bolivia & Argentina), East Africa (Kenya & Uganda) or India who could document their travels and potentially some of its NGO partners & projects so FSD can improve the quality of its website & print materials.

You can read more about this volunteer opportunity here.

If your non-profit organization has a volunteer opportunity to share with our photographers, you can submit it on our online form.   

In the Photographer's Work
By Andy Prisbylla, guest blogger

Andy Prisbylla, a student that entered the 2010 Activist Awards, candidly discusses how his creative needs and desire to create social change led him to documentary photography.

See Andy's entry on behalf of Arts Alive! into the 2010 Activist Awards here. Check out all of the posts on the PhotoPhilanthropy blog here.   

Midway: Message from the Gyre
By Chris Jordan for NextNow Collaboratory 

Chris Jordan's photo essay documents the environmental tragedy that is taking place on Midway. Far removed from civilization, this beautiful island is also where hundreds of thousands of albatross die each year every year from dehydration, starvation, choking, and drowning, with their bodies filled up with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch.  

See more of Chris' powerful and haunting photo essay here.         

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Banner image by Fernando Moleres for TIMAP for Justice, 2010 Activist Awards Professional Finalist.