Spreading smiles through giving.
Throughout the year, Lamplighter Photography donates ten percent of all its earnings to carefully chosen local charities and non-profit organizations that work to make Houston a better place to live and grow a family.
Houston Food Bank
The Houston Food Bank is the largest source of food for hunger relief charities in 18 southeast Texas counties centered around Houston. They supply a network of more than 400 food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers and other agencies, feeding a total of 137,000 people each week, and provide more than 65 million pounds of food and prepared meals annually. The Houston Food Bank also provides community services ranging from nutrition education to assistance with food stamp applications and hands-on job training.
Houston Children's Charity
Houston Children's Charity is dedicated to improving the quality of life for Greater Houston's underprivileged, abused, and disabled children. Their goal is to leave no legitimate request for assistance unanswered. Their Chariots for Children van program provides special purpose vehicles to help rescue children living in the streets and take children from shelters to and from school and after school events or work. By arranging healthcare, wheelchairs, prostheses and related support, Houston Children's Charity helps children recover from, and cope with, debilitating disease and injury. Houston Children’s Charity’s newest program, A Better Night’s Sleep, provides beds to children around Houston who are sleeping on the floor.
Trees For Houston
Trees For Houston is a non-profit organization dedicated to planting, protecting and promoting trees. In its 26 years, Trees For Houston has planted over 378,000 trees around Houston — trees that clean the air, mitigate run off, cool the surroundings, and beautify our neighborhoods.
Houston Area Women's Center
The Houston Area Women's Center helps individuals affected by domestic and sexual violence in their efforts to move their lives forward. They provide shelter, counseling and advocacy to support them in building lives free from the effects of violence. HAWC seeks social change to end domestic and sexual violence through community awareness and education.
Ronald McDonald House of Houston
Ronald McDonald House offers loving, home-like environments, where families can find support and share experiences with others while on their journey to overcome a critical childhood illness. Homes operated by RMH include a freestanding 50 bedroom home for longer term stays, a home and three Family Rooms inside Texas Children's Hospital, a home inside Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, and a Cookie Corner at M.D. Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital.
Houston Toys For Tots
The mission of the Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November, and December each year and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children around Houston. Toys for Tots seeks to help less fortunate children experience the joy of Christmas, to play an active role in the development of one of our most valuable resources — our children, to unite members of our community in a common cause for three months each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign, and to contribute to a better community in the future.
