The Noble Cause Awards Honors The Pages of Hope Foundation

Fort Smith, Arkansas 24, 2011 The Pages of Hope Foundation is the first recipient of the Noble Cause Awards. The Noble Cause Awards honor those who are making tremendous efforts to improve their communities and country by helping others. The Pages of Hope foundation provides professional photography and personalized memory albums at no charge for families of the terminally ill.

“When families find out that a child or other family member may not be with them very long, they want to preserve the memories left through good photographysays Kat Hardin, the founder of Pages of Hope. Hardin points out that finances are often strained with hospital bills and related travel expenses, making quality photography a luxury that many can’t afford.

That’s where The Pages of Hope Foundation comes in. This charitable organization provides free professional photography for the families of their loved one. The photos are then bound into a special memory album with personalized touches, such as the child’s own poems or art work.

The Pages of Hope foundation began after Hardin, a professional photographer, received several consecutive requests for photography sessions with terminally ill children. Hardin couldn’t bring herself to charge for the photos. Word spread and the requests continued. Hardin found herself struggling to balance her regular work load while not turning down the additional requests. She realized there was a need for a charitable foundation to provide the photos for all who wanted them. Donations could be used to offset costs and other photographers could get involved, and so The Pages of Hope Foundation was born.

The Noble Cause Awards were recently created by Gallagher Merry, a Fort Smith, Arkansas affiliate of the Arthur J. Gallagher company, risk management specialist. Gallagher Merry Area President, Philip H. Merry Jr., wanted to create an award that would honor people that make a difference in the lives of others. He created the Noble Cause awards so that the company could know about and help promote these amazing organizations and what they do.

The Noble Cause Awards will honor each recipient by providing a promotional budget for the organizations. The budget is used to create promotional materials and advertising for the charitable organizations. Merry says “Often these organizations go underfunded because they lack the funds to promote themselves. Our goal is to take on some of that burden for them and help spread the word.

For more information on The Pages of Hope Foundation and how you can donate or get involved visit pagesofhope.com

For more information on the Noble Cause Awards visit noblecauseawards.com

For more information on Gallagher Merry visit ajg.com