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Your Support Makes This Work Possible

Every portrait begins with someone choosing to be seen.

For the person who steps in front of the camera, The Grace Project is offered without a price attached to the experience.

Your support makes that possible.

It allows us to meet people where they are, create a safe and intentional space for them to be photographed, and give each participant signed archival photographs from their session to keep.

For some, that photograph becomes far more than a portrait. It can become a way of seeing a body changed by cancer with tenderness instead of judgment. A reminder of what they have endured. Something tangible they can hold, frame, share with their families and carry forward.

Your donation puts that experience within reach.

Your Gift Travels Far Beyond One Portrait

Your support helps The Grace Project:

• Create new portraits of people affected by breast cancer, including survivors and thrivers, people living with metastatic disease, veterans and active-duty service members, people choosing aesthetic flat closure, men with breast cancer, and others whose experiences are too often missing from the public narrative.
• Give archival fine art photographs to every participant, so the experience does not end when the camera is put away.
• Bring The Grace Project into communities across the country through portrait sessions, exhibitions, artist talks, educational programs and collaborations with hospitals, cancer organizations and community partners.
• Give visibility to underserved experiences within breast cancer, including metastatic breast cancer, racial disparities in care and outcomes, aesthetic flat closure, hereditary cancers, breast cancer among military populations, and male breast cancer.
• Preserve and grow an extraordinary visual archive that now contains more than 1,200 portraits and continues to document the many different bodies, lives and stories behind breast cancer.
• Help realize the monumental 800-banner exhibition, bringing 800 portraits together as 36 × 54-inch silk banners in a single space. Eight hundred people, representing approximately one day of breast cancer diagnoses in the United States, made human and impossible to reduce to a statistic.

And your support helps us continue challenging a culture that still offers an extraordinarily narrow definition of what a beautiful body is supposed to look like.

Scars are not something we need to look away from.
Altered bodies do not need to be hidden.
Changed bodies are still worthy of being witnessed, celebrated and remembered.

Every Gift Becomes Part of the Work

A donation to The Grace Project may help purchase archival paper and ink for a participant’s photographs. It may help get Charise and her camera to another community. It may help produce an exhibition, preserve the growing archive, create educational programming, or make it possible for someone to participate who otherwise could not.

Large or small, every contribution helps carry this work forward.

Because behind every photograph is a person who trusted us with their body and their story.

And behind The Grace Project is a community of people who believe those stories deserve to be seen.

Thank you for being part of it.

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Donations by check may be made payable to:

Grace Goddess Inc.
251 Broadway
Kingston, NY 12401

Grace Goddess Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
EIN: 84-3572037

Contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.