There are a lot of things that are important these days. Obviously, we all have issues, concepts, organizations or activities that help shape the way we live our lives. When we become passionate about them, they spur us on to do more or accomplish more. That passion fuels our resolve and that resolve turns into performance---and hopefully, results.
There are many issues that do that for me, but two of those making the most noise in my personal ensemble are philanthropy and the restoration of our memories via scanning our photos.
One springs from the realization that there is so much need around us and to help meet that need, we, as individuals must get involved and help. Whether it’s a food pantry or a hospital, it is likely they wouldn’t be able to exist without the help of the community. That’s not politics, that’s just the reality of meeting need with limited resources. So we have to, in my humble opinion. jump in and help those organizations that we strongly support.
The other springs from the understanding that so much of our individual, personal histories exist via our photographs, slides and video that are fading further from view every day. Pictures fall victim to heat, humidity, chemicals in album plastic, misplacement, fire, flood or a host of other enemies. If we scan them, digitize them and preserve them onto DVD, they can last as they look today for 50 or more years. If we don’t, we run the risk of losing the significance of our images because we wont be able to identify the people nor will the photos be physically worth looking at.
My company, The Scan Zone, will address both issues together. We are unveiling The Scan Zone Scan-a-thon, which will work with non-profit organizations to create programs where donors get their photos scanned by The Scan Zone and about a third of the price of their scanning projects get donated to that non-profit.
It’s a big number to allocate to a non-profit and a pretty big number for the Scan Zone to absorb. But as I said, my two biggest passions right now are helping in the community to make people’s lives better and my desire to help people preserve their memories. The Scan Zone Scan-a-thon does both of those things for us and it is worth pushing the envelop on labor costs to scan, digitize, output to DVD and preserve memories while knowing important organizations that help people are receiving the financial benefit.
Don’t worry about us. There are lots of projects for the Scan Zone to make money outside the non-profit world. But to be able to have hit on a formula that preserves memories and financially benefits organizations that help people is truly a marriage of two passions.
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