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Win a chance to be featured in the 2012 Silver Project calendar! How to Enter:
Submit your photos to submit@thesilverproject.org MUST BE SUBMITTED BY OCTOBER 15th!

12 winners will be selected for inclusion in The Silver Projects 2012 calendar
with all net proceeds going to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation!

THE MISSION
The Silver Projects hope is simple: mobilize a social network to help those in need. In 2010, a calendar of photography was created to benefit the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Almost overnight, The Silver Project had gone viral. 15 days later, over 1,000 calendars were sold and more than $25,000 was raised This year, we are even more committed to our mission: Motivate. Inspire. Remind. Give Back.

THE CONTEST
What inspires you to give back? How do you live life to the fullest? What do you have to say about cancer? Capture those feelingsthrough photography, art, and designand send your submissions to submit@thesilverproject.org by October 15th.

THE JUDGES
Submissions will be collected and reviewed by The Silver Project creators until Oct 15, at which point well hand them off to our esteemed group of judges from the media world: Dan Peres, Editor in Chief of Details magazine Brian Marcus, NYC photographer extraordinaire Jamie Shupak, Emmy-nominated NY-1 traffic reporter The top 12 submissions will be chosen for inclusion in our 2012 Silver Project calendar, with all net proceeds benefiting the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation.

THE CAUSE
100% of the net proceeds will again be donated to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Gift of Life has only one purpose: to help save lives. For people afflicted with severe blood disorders such as leukemia, a transplant is often their only chance of survival. While some patients are lucky enough to find a match within their families, those that do not, must turn to the national registry as a last hope. While the registry has millions of people in it, the chances of finding a match are slim. Through our 2010 campaign, TSP funded over 350 swabbing kits to be processed and entered into the national registry. Registering these kits is essential for medical professionals to find bone marrow matches for transplant patients. Amazingly, TSP achieved instant success! Earlier this year, we learned that one of the very kits sponsored by TSP was a perfect match for a patient in need and is on its way to saving a life! On the heels of this success, we have decided this year to once again donate the net proceeds from TSP to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation.

For more information, please visit www.giftoflife.org

OFFICIAL RULES
get inspired! think about what motivates you, what drives you to give back, and what you have to say about cancer. and through photography, art, or design, show us! email your submission to submit@thesilverproject.org the contest begins on september 7, 2011 and ends on october 15, 2011. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR ENTRY IS RECEIVED BEFORE OCTOBER 15th! 12 winners will be chosen by a panel of 3 judges, and notified by november 1, 2011, at which point they may be asked to submit a short written statement about their photography. the top 12 winning photographs/art/visuals will be featured in The Silver Projects 2012 calendar, with all sale proceeds going to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation by submitting your entry, you are granting The Silver Project permission to reprint your work, should you be one of the 12 finalists all creative elements in the submission must be original to, and created solely by you this contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, facebook

MEET THE JUDGES

Dan Peres has been Editor-in-Chief of Details magazine since 2000, when the title relaunched under his leadership. Since then, the magazine has won two ASME Awards for Design and earned several other nominations, including General Excellence. In 2003, Advertising Age named Details as an A-List Magazine and MIN magazine included Mr. Peres as one of its "21 Most Intriguing People" of the year. In 2007, Mr. Peres authored Details Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You, published by Gotham Books. Before taking the editorship of Details, Mr. Peres spent nine years at W magazine. He worked his way from Assistant Editor to European Editor, overseeing Ws bureaus in Paris (where he lived for three years), London, and Milan. While in college he worked as a copy boy at The New York Times, and later as a research assistant at Esquire. Mr. Peres graduated from NYU with degrees in Journalism and American History. He currently resides in New York with his wife Sarah and their three children.

Jamie Shupak is an Emmy-nominated traffic reporter for NY1, the Big Apple cable network that's the end-all and be-all on all things Gotham for New Yorkers. She's also the dating columnist for Complex Magazine, where every Thursday she shares her stories of navigating New York City's dating scene, and offers her advice and admonitions to singles everywhere. Jamie grew up in Philadelphia and is a graduate of the University of Maryland.

MEET THE JUDGES

Brian Marcus, a world-renowned photographer and educator specializing in weddings, portraiture and fashion photography, is a third generation photographer for his family business, Fred Marcus Studio. Brian has had his photographs published in PEOPLE magazine, Popular Photography, Elegant Bride, GQ, The Knot and many more. With the creativity, skills and passion inherited from his grandfather and father, Brian represents the legacy of Fred Marcus Photography in the current century and has become one of the most sought after wedding photographers today. The Fred Marcus Studio, founded by Fred Marcus in the 1940s, now run by his son Andy and grandson Brian, has set the standard for wedding and event photography in New York for the past three generations. Theyve recorded many of New York Citys most notable weddings and social events, as well as iconic portraits of its luminaries for nearly seventy years, including Governor Cuomo and family, Art Garfunkel, Harry and Leona Helmsley, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Mary Tyler Moore, Eddie Murphy and Ronald Perelman to name a few.

MEET THE CREATORS

Stacey Lewis is a sales leader in the promotional product industry in New York. After losing her father Don to Leukemia in February 2009, she made a commitment to push his legacy forward in the fashion he would if he were alive. With this in mind, along with her creativity and resources, she was inspired to create the 2011 Silver Project calendar. Stephanie Markell is an Associate Creative Director at H4B Chelsea, in New York City. Through her friendship with Stacey, and her love of photography, the 2011 Silver Project featured 12 of her photographs. This year, shes thrilled to invite everyone else to join The Silver Projects mission of reaching and inspiring thousands through images and art. Jason Lewis is Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at Dabroes, a New York based hedge fund firm he helped form in 2008. The loss of his father, Don, initially inspired Jason's passion for The Silver Project, but his motivation was further bolstered after being picked in 2009 as a perfect match for someone in need of a bone marrow transplant. While ultimately he was not called upon to donate, Jasons hunger to give back was amplified by this experience. He captured his inspiration in the 2010 short writing "The One in Seven Million Story. Avi Karesh is possibly the first person ever to give and receive the gift of life, both via the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation; having successfully donated in 2007, and more recently as the recipient of a stem cell transplant while he fought his own battle Leukemia. Post-transplant Avi is doing well and back at work at BlackRock, where he advises families and foundations on their investment portfolios. He lives in New York with his wife and 5-year-old daughter.