🧀The Say Cheese Crew is ALWAYS interested in partnerships and volunteering events that enable us to share smiles. The crew is passionate about the future of the planet, and will do whatever we can to protect the environment.
We are so proud of our Crew members that are out there making a difference! There are so many ways to help.
Are you a company that is passionate about giving back to your community? Are you just a kid that wants to help someone? There's a place for both of you here. Companies please message us. Parents looking to submit their kids for our Spotlight features or photoshoot casting please visit the "casting" page of this site. 🤝🧀 😁
recent causes:
Justine Helps "Showered with Love"
Justine started a hygiene kit drive with her classmates for the local homeless population , prior to covid. Her family was able to donate about 50 kits with much needed hygiene necessities to a mobile shower foundation, "Showered With Love", to pass out to the homeless population that utilized the mobile showers.
She also packs Thanksgiving/Christmas food boxes with her Church to distribute to families in need. Justine enjoys helping those less fortunate in her community when she can and hopes to get back to work post-Covid.
Check out www.instagram.com/justine_b_2011
Justine started a hygiene kit drive with her classmates for the local homeless population , prior to covid. Her family was able to donate about 50 kits with much needed hygiene necessities to a mobile shower foundation, "Showered With Love", to pass out to the homeless population that utilized the mobile showers.
She also packs Thanksgiving/Christmas food boxes with her Church to distribute to families in need. Justine enjoys helping those less fortunate in her community when she can and hopes to get back to work post-Covid.
Check out www.instagram.com/justine_b_2011
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Gabrielle's Vision
Gabrielle is a performer. She loves to make other smile through her dancing; in which she has been doing for eight years now. Her vision is to help out her community anyway she can by reaching out to the youth and helping them with their needs. She recently came out with a children's book that she released on her birthday this year. She wanted other children to feel comfortable with their hair in the dance world and wrote a book about it. Gabrielle will be donating 10% of each book sale to the Boys and Girls club of the Big Bend.
She also is teaming up with the boys and girls club and Planet Fitness to do a backpack drive this summer August 1, 2020. Her backpacks will be filled with arts and crafts, personal hygiene products and books to read. She is currently taking donations. If you have any questions, she can be reached on her Instagram page. The link to her book is listed in her profile.
www.instagram.com/gabrielle_thedancerwith_locs
Ziyra Overcomes Cancer and Spreads Awareness
There are so many children that get diagnosed with cancer each year & yet there is so little Awareness being spread. Of all of the funds for Cancer Research, Childhood Cancer only receives 4% of that. Ziyra was diagnosed Oct.2018 with Ependymoma, which is a rare type of brain Cancer. She underwent surgery followed by both Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy starting from Dec.2018 - Sept.2019. As of today she is stable and shows no signs of Cancer, but there is no CURE. This means that it can come back as it pleases with no warning. Since there are no protocols or enough research in place for children they follow steps that are put in place for adults often leading them to suffer lifelong effects from the massive dosages of treatments if they do indeed survive them.
There are so many children that get diagnosed with cancer each year & yet there is so little Awareness being spread. Of all of the funds for Cancer Research, Childhood Cancer only receives 4% of that. Ziyra was diagnosed Oct.2018 with Ependymoma, which is a rare type of brain Cancer. She underwent surgery followed by both Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy starting from Dec.2018 - Sept.2019. As of today she is stable and shows no signs of Cancer, but there is no CURE. This means that it can come back as it pleases with no warning. Since there are no protocols or enough research in place for children they follow steps that are put in place for adults often leading them to suffer lifelong effects from the massive dosages of treatments if they do indeed survive them.
Ziyra’s Goal is to create a Platform to Spread Awareness to as many people as she can, so that one day her and other Children’s lives are worth more than 4%.
Cancer doesn’t always look same. There is not always hair loss & kids are still able to somehow smile through this terrible disease. Her family has had horrible days, but through Ziyra’s social accounts they take time to show good times as well because they matter! They matter because they don’t want more smiles & giggles to vanish. These children’s lives matter! Ziyra has hopes for her platform to be a safe space for other Cancer Children like herself while also creating the necessary dialogue with other kids & adults who can help in making a difference!
www.instagram.com/ziyrasworld
http://www.youtube.com/c/Ziyra’sWorld
Cancer doesn’t always look same. There is not always hair loss & kids are still able to somehow smile through this terrible disease. Her family has had horrible days, but through Ziyra’s social accounts they take time to show good times as well because they matter! They matter because they don’t want more smiles & giggles to vanish. These children’s lives matter! Ziyra has hopes for her platform to be a safe space for other Cancer Children like herself while also creating the necessary dialogue with other kids & adults who can help in making a difference!
www.instagram.com/ziyrasworld
http://www.youtube.com/c/Ziyra’sWorld
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Chelsea's Charity Because of her own love of art, at Chelsea’s 10th birthday party in Yonkers, N.Y. a few months ago, she asked her guests, in lieu of gifts for herself, to bring art supplies so that she could start her charity and create art kits for children in different communities that possibly did not have access to art supplies or could use the supplies to help them through a difficult time. 👉 She collected a large bin full of supplies at her birthday party and since then, she's created an Amazon wishlist filled with art supplies. Through the power of social media, family, friends and complete strangers have used the list to purchase brand new art supplies for Chelsea to create art kits for children! She works on kits every other night with the donations and includes a note for each child in the art kits. Thus far, she’s created over 500 art kits and has distributed them or had them delivered to children living in homeless shelters in her community and to children that may have experienced a traumatic event in their lives. Most recently, Chelsea and her mom traveled to El Paso and distributed art kits to children at a local elementary school near the site of Walmart mass shooting in August 2019. Chelsea was able to teach those children a mini-art lesson and shared how much art can help them express themselves. Hopefully sharing Chelsea's story will encourage other children and let them know that they can make a difference too. She is currently preparing for a distribution in Haiti to 250 children! www.instagram.com/chelseascharity 
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Violet does it all for the community! Violet Humble is an 11-year-old activist, homeless advocate, model and actress from Northern Montana! She has personally sponsored over 1,300 hot meals to the homeless and donated over 15,000 pounds of food. In addition to this Violet has started a Little Free library for the homeless, donated hundreds of new pairs of shoes, and thousands of pounds of clothing. Violet has led volunteer activities with over 59 children from five states participating. Violet has been awarded the Charlotte Bacon Acts of Kindness Award, Hasbro Be Fearless Be Kind Award, and Emerging Young Philanthropist of the Year award. She is also a proud autism sister, and child rights and climate activist. Her passions in life are acting, modeling, volunteer work, and learning about sloths. www.instagram.com/violethumble |
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Larissa creates "V.O.I.C.E."
VIP Crew Member Larissa hopes to inspire other kids to go out in the community and make a difference, as she believes any small act of kindness can make a big change.
Larissa enjoys working with Recycled Rovers and the no-kill animal shelter in Palm Valley because she feels it is very important to protect earth and the animals on it. She loves to talk to people about recycling and using metal straws because plastic straws are a big problem! She also enjoys volunteering and communities at Five Case donating school supplies to needy children as well as volunteering at the food bank, and even collecting flip-flops for "flip-flop to the world." This year she was able to collect 286 pairs of flip flops!
www.instagram.com/_larissa_nicole
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Sabrina has started the Backpack Buddies!
VIP Crew Member Sabrina is a Level 3 Gymnast and Founder of the Backpack Buddies, an organization that collects donations for homeless and underprivileged children. This summer, Sabrina collected donations of backpack and school supplies in her community and through Instagram.
She's been able to collect 41 Backpacks as well as endless school supplies in the thousands!
She's currently accepting donations for personal care essentials, children's blankets and stuffed animals. Please visit her Instagram for a complete list of items needed!
www.instagram.com/thebackpackbuddies
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Support Lily and Make-A-Wish! VIP Crew Member Lily is a 5 year old Make-A-Wish kid that's battling a life-threatening lung disease. Instead of getting upset, she's creating beautiful bracelets and spreading awareness one bracelet at a time. 25% of proceeds on every bracelet sold goes directly to Make-A-Wish. You can help Lily buy checking out the bracelets here: www.etsy.com/shop/LemonsWish You can also follow her journey on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/lemonswishco/ |
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Lynzee for President!
VIP Crew Member Lynzee supports the "Little Free Grocery Store" with her church for those that can't afford their own groceries. She stocks this cabinet in hopes of helping families with something most people take for granted: Food. She also created a project called "You Never Know" which supports the homeless with essential supplies. We need more kids like this one!! You can donate to Lynzee's store and follow her journey on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/iamlynzee/ |
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🧀4/28 10am-noon Baker Beach, San Franicsco
The Say Cheese Crew will be partnering with Surfrider Foundation and The Futon Shop for a Beach Clean up at San Francisco's scenic Baker Beach. Join us for a plastic-free breakfast, fun photo ops and a chance to win great prizes from The Futon Shop! Surfrider encourages participants to bring their own gloves, grabbers, or buckets. Bring a reusable cup along with you! *PLEASE RSVP WITH SHIRT SIZE. 
🧀4/26 4:30-6:30PM Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. The Say Cheese Crew partners with Olio on Friday 4/26 to hand out fresh produce and flyers to educate people on the food waste epidemic. Between 33-50% of all food produced globally is never eaten, and the value of this wasted food is worth over $1 trillion. Food waste is a massive market inefficiency, the kind of which does not persist in other industries. Come join the crew for a special community event. We'll have some gear waiting for you! *PLEASE RSVP WITH SHIRT SIZE. |
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More VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES coming soon!
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