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Social Documentary Projects For The Human Condition

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Don's Focus On Charity, Infrastructure and Economic Development

2011. The American News Media has been dead now for years, therefore Don is moving on to more important issues at hand. Don't worry, this photography web site will still have continual updates and photos will be sold. Don will still photograph social documentary projects for the human condition and sometimes important news events if convenient, but he will just not any longer be tied down by the news media. Attention will be applied to where Don's heart, mind, and interest has been directed since youth ... This new work focus will make a real difference in the world to help others, advance developing societies, as well as, protect and clean the environment we all live in.

Don's current efforts consist of the two entities described below, and their two web sites officially dedicate this new work transition. The DON-NEE Foundation's charity projects will do infinitely more philanthropy than what Don has been doing for most of his life with other groups as a volunteer. The DE Watkins & Associates' business projects which are implemented commercially in the true entrepreneurial spirit will also contribute financially to the charity foundation, as well as, ideally for sound development solutions for needs identified from past and current observations and research conducted in the support of nations to attain their necessary growth potentials. Both are focused on economic growth, health concerns, communications and outreach for social awareness, education and technical training. Commercial interests extend into engineering services and design, systems manufacturing, procurements, project management, installation and support, international trade and marketing, strategic planning consultation, and public relations.

The DON-NEE Foundationwww.don-nee.org

The DON-NEE Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization with a mission to assist those less fortunate while helping to develop and establish programs that provide growth, independence, and stability. For both International and Domestic programs - Crucial needs identified and analyzed, Program results essential ... Don started this organization after witnessing for decades the repeated waste and abuse of other organizations, having directors of organizations asking him his thoughts and listening to what he would do while down playing, criticizing, and mocking his ideas only to implement them later, additionally when out in the field people in need would often come to him for help, and in view of the fact that foreign officials and doctors would ask him to dinner on account of knowing he is a straight shooter and plays no games. Therefore Don decided it best he carry out programs under his own creation, supervision, and through his personal oversight with a promise to keep overhead expenses to a minimum while having a maximum impact for program success. Don won't throw lavish dinner parties guised as fund raisers and to subsequently steal bottles of liquor adding it to the bill, and he does not stay in three, four, and five star hotels like the other organization's directors, but rather, he stays in rooms for rent and as guests in local homes with those who support our programs and our vision. Your kind donations are greatly appreciated and wisely utilized.

DE Watkins & Associateswww.dewatkinsassociates.com

DE Watkins & Associates works commercially on infrastructure and economic development projects with a portion of those profits to be donated to support charity and social causes. When possible the firm takes on projects not just for a traditional capitalistic gain, but also for a conscious capitalism strategy. As a conscious entrepreneur Don easily recognizes social problems and uses his entrepreneurial skills to create, organize, and manage ventures to improve societies. Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures their accomplishments and performance in profits and return, Don, as a conscious entrepreneur, evaluates and assesses success in terms of the impact on society as well as in profits and return and uses business models that combine a revenue-generating business with a social-value-generating structure or component. As a conscious capitalist, Don has a deeper purpose to provide not only profit for projects, but also harmony for all stakeholders, including investors, employees, team leaders, suppliers, community, the environment, and for humanity. As a conscious entrepreneur Don operates the firm with this conscious capitalistic approach.


After 19 Years,
Don Quits Shooting News For PPC - Patuxent Publishing Company

2010, June. After hundreds and hundreds of cover photos and after being the longest working freelancer with the Patuxent Publishing Company (PPC) located in Columbia, Maryland, Don finally moves on and retires his time shooting for the news consortium. In their hay day, with their chain of over 20 weeklies, PPC was once known to be a documentary hub where picture stories ran as the norm. Photographers would vie for those few limited internships. In those old days, each paper's issue would have an in-depth cover story which was complemented by multi-page photo spreads. Every paper used to be an award winning publication, but today the papers are just "Fluff n Puff" and are basically editorially lacking with no back-bone. Before readers couldn't wait to see the papers upon delivery, now they don't even open them before throwing the papers into the recycle bin with their trash, this is really true no BS.

PPC was bought and sold three times over with so many consolidations, the group eventually got milked down in all aspects. They are currently in bankruptcy owned by the insolvent Lib Chicago Tribune along with their conglomerate of ten daily newspapers notably the LA Times, Baltimore Sun, Sun Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Hartford Courant, Morning Call and Daily Press, along with it's broadcasting group of 23 television stations. Today PPC is no longer a backbone for serious photography, unfortunately the photo department is extremely mismanaged and poorly run, and the PPC upper management cares not for any staff loyalty or for accurate reportage. Don saw the writing on the wall a few years ago when their esteemed Photo Editor of twenty-three years, Tenney Mason, was offered a buyout retirement along with the consolidation of many required management positions throughout the entire organization. Missed by everyone, Tenney was a loyal and true "For The Photographer Editor". Tenney knew what it took out there to get the picture, and really understood exactly what we photographers endure, he always made sure it got published, that is, published correctly too. Now at PPC it's all just "Fluff n Puff".