Work by Dennis Chapman Featured
Photos From City Union Mission
Selected To Appear in Giving USA

Dennis Chapman, Development Director for Kansas City’s City Union Mission and a professional photographer, is among five photographers whose work was selected through an international competition to appear in Giving USA, America’s authoritative report on charitable giving in the United States.

Dennis, who began a “second career” as a photographer in 1978, manages a development staff of 14 and is guiding a $12 million capital campaign to double capacity for emergency men’s shelter and long-term recovery programs for the Mission. His photo of a mother resting against a wall with a torn blanket covering her two young children will be featured in the inside pages of the book. A second photo – a weathered pair of hands holding what is left of two ancient widow’s mites from the Holy Land – will be featured in the book and as part of a national advertising campaign promoting the book.

Dennis’ work was selected from more than 100 submissions by nonprofits worldwide. Winners Michael Bisceglie, Holly Eaton, Dave Bushle and Marcelo Spina Hering represent such world-renowned organizations as Save the Children, Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross and the United Nation’s World Food Programme.

Finalists’ photos were judged by a blue-ribbon panel comprised of: Steven Bollinger, Emory University (retired); John Lawrence, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College; David Lester, Lester & Associates; Leslie Biggins Mollsen, American City Bureau, Inc.; and JD Scott, JD Scott Photographic and Design. Entries were judged based on the picture’s ability to tell a compelling story and represent “giving.”

“We are extremely proud to have one of our nonprofit partners featured in a publication of such national significance,” said JB&A President & CEO Jeffrey D. Byrne. “It is appropriate that the excellent photography in this case came from City Union Mission which, with the vast majority of its support coming from individuals, exemplifies what Giving USA is trying to teach. They are excellent stewards of donors’ dollars and give of themselves each and every day.”

“Giving USA has been and continues to be an increasingly essential resource about our nation’s philanthropic tendencies. And these photos enhance the work of our dedicated research team by showing arresting visuals that tell the stories behind the numbers,” said Giving USA Foundation™ Vice Chairman Del Martin, a partner in the Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm of Alexander Haas Martin & Partners, Inc.

Giving USA is produced by Giving USA Foundation™ and the Giving Institute: Leading Consultants to Non-Profits (formerly known as the American Association of Fund Raising Counsel), a 70-year-old national trade association that embodies the core values of ethics, excellence and leadership in advancing philanthropy. Jeffrey Byrne & Associates, Inc. is the only Kansas City-based firm to be accepted into membership in the association and one of only two firms with offices in Missouri.