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2009 FTIA Celebration of Children Calendar – Photo Submission Invitation!

FTIA is now accepting photo submissions to be considered for our annual Celebration of Children Calendar! We are looking forward to creating a 2009 edition that once again features our beautiful children who have been united with their forever families. This project is one of the ways that we raise funds for humanitarian aid/development projects. In 2008, calendar sales alone contributed over $21,000 toward aiding children in need overseas. We hope that you will continue to support this endeavor.

Our calendar uses a photo collage design for each month to allow the maximum number of children to be included. Sample pages of the 2008 calendar can be viewed by clicking “here.”

Families whose children are home are encouraged to submit a photograph of your child to be considered for the 2009 Calendar. As in the past, we can accept photo submissions via mail, e-mail and at the FTIA reunion in Indianapolis on Saturday, July 19th. The final day to submit photos will be at the reunion. Please honor this deadline.

We cannot guarantee that all photos will be included in the calendar. In order to avoid bias in the selection of photos, we have arranged for a designer/photographer who is not an adoptive parent to select photos to be included in the calendar.

Whether your child's photo is included in the calendar or not, we will include the photos we receive in the albums that we share at informational meetings. We may also choose to include your child's photo in some of our promotional guides, brochures, or advertisements for FTIA's international adoption programs without names or other identifying information.

We prefer to receive photos electronically by email whenever possible but we will continue to accept original developed/processed photographs.

IF YOU PLAN TO SUBMIT A DIGITAL PHOTO, you may attach your digital photo to an email, paste into the body of your email the necessary information and release language from the Photo Submission Form (see link below), and send the email to ohio@ftia.org. **Please refer to the Photo Submission Form for exact instructions about submitting your digital photo by email.**

IF YOU PLAN TO SUBMIT AN ORIGINAL DEVELOPED/PROCESSED PHOTOGRAPH (as opposed to a digital photo), please mail your photograph AND a completed, signed Photo Submission Form (see link below) to FTIA’s OHIO OFFICE ADDRESS:

FTIA
ATTN: Calendar Project
200 TechneCenter Drive, Suite 221
Milford, OH 45150

**Please refer to the Photo Submission Form for exact instructions about submitting your photograph(s) by mail. Also, remember to protect your photograph: do not use paper clips or staples on your photo, as this will damage the photo, and encase your photo in thick cardboard or some other packing material to protect it through the mail.

IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE REUNION and wish to submit an original developed/processed photograph (as opposed to a digital photo), please bring your photograph(s) AND a completed, signed Photo Submission Form for each picture (see link below) to the reunion! Please DO NOT use paper clips or staples on your photo, as this will damage the photo. We encourage you to place your photo and the Photo Submission Form in an envelope. **Please refer to the Photo Submission Form for exact instructions about submitting your photograph(s) at the reunion.*

PLEASE REMEMBER THE POINTS BELOW AND REFER TO THE FOLLOWING PHOTO SUBMISSION FORM FOR MORE DETAILS:

• Only ONE photograph may be submitted for consideration for each adopted child. If you have adopted more than one child, you may submit one individual photo for each child, or one group photo of all of the children. Also, only children – no adults in the photos, please.
• A separate, completed, and signed Photo Submission Form MUST be submitted with each original photograph you submit for consideration. For digital photos, each individual digital photo must be emailed separately to ohio@ftia.org and the necessary information and release language from the Photo Submission Form must be included in the body of each email.
• Copyrighted (studio) photos MUST be accompanied by written permission from the photographer or studio to be considered.
• Please do not submit a photo that you have printed from your home computer/printer as the resolution/quality will not be of high enough quality for reproduction.
• When submitting an actual photo (as opposed to a digital photo), please place a sticker label or piece of masking tape on the back of each photograph with your child’s full name to assist us in keeping track of the photos.
• If submitting a digital photo, when saving the file please name the file as your child’s last name followed by first name (so that the attachment will be saved/named as your child’s complete name).
• Please understand that original photographs will not be returned.

The DEADLINE for ALL photo submissions is Saturday, July 19th – the date of FTIA’s reunion!

Please contact ohio@ftia.org or 513-831-2777 with any questions.

Click here to download and print the required PHOTO SUBMISSION FORM!