Hi!

I'm new here at this forum but I've been working as a contributor to several stock agencies since 2008. In the last years I saw that agencies are not ashamed and do everything they can to make an easy profit at the expense of artists slave work!

I think that the only solution could be the creation of an agency by the contributor community, with fair prices and commissions! If that happens, those sucker agencies will not have fresh content and will have to rethink their business model.

Hello,

This is my first thread here, so let me introduce myself. My name is Nuno André, I´m from Portugal and I live in Leiria, a small city at the center of this country.

I've been a contributor to several microstock agencies since 2009, on a part-time basis, and most of my images and videos were made from 3d rendering and animation.

I am also a long distances trail runner and member of a local club (NEL – Núcleo de Espeleologia de Leiria), who has two "Joelletes". A "Joellete" is an all-terrain one-wheeled chair that enables any person with reduced mobility or disability, to get involved in hiking excursions or running activities with the help of at least two guides. We are frequently invited by different organizations to participate in running events with our "Joelletes", to carry disabled people and provide them an exciting experience.

One of the organizations that invites us on a regular basis is "Casa do Mimo" (Caress House), at Batalha town, near Leiria. "Casa do Mimo" is a non-profit organization founded in 2016 by friends, parents and teachers of impaired children and young people, who suffer from physical and/or mental disorders. This association is focused on help them to get self-confidence and autonomy, promote their social inclusion, increasing their quality life and of those families. More information could be found on: https://www.facebook.com/Casa-do-Mimo-240873216284607

I am an associated member of "Casa do Mimo" for almost two years and I've been thinking how can I use the microstock business model to help supporting some of the financial needs of the organization, especially when most of our children and young people come from families with low income.

With the agreement of the "Casa do Mimo" administration, I started this work in progress project, based on the following steps:
1.   Create a "Casa do Mimo" account on several microstock agencies;
2.   Produce some content based on impairment and disability topics and donate it to "Casa do Mimo", that can be uploaded to the portfolio on the several microstock agencies;
3.   Disseminate this project, intended to raise the awareness about the issues related to the impairment and disability, to encourage and ask others to contribute to the project, donating a digital content (photo, illustration, video or audio), helping to grow the "Casa do Mimo" portfolio and the potential earnings that could be done;
4.   Using all the earnings to support the "Casa do Mimo" activities;
5.   Create a facebook page where is shared information about the project, the content donated (referring who had donated) and other relevant information about the project;
6.   Explore other possibilities to get earnings/funds to help the organization.

Until now, I created portfolio on the following agencies with 3 images that are approved and had a few downloads:
https://stock.adobe.com/pt/contributor/208991032/Casa
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Casa+do+Mimo?rid=244263414
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/pt/search/?contributor=Casa+do+Mimo&safesearch=n
https://www.pond5.com/artist/casadomimo#1/2176
https://www.dreamstime.com/casadomimomicrostock_info

Now, I need to produce more content and ask for the content donation from those who wants to contribute to the success of this project, and to help the impaired children and young people from "Casa do Mimo" organization.

So, this is my idea and what is done at this moment. What do you think about it? Please, any suggestions and content donations will be appreciated.

Thanks for your attention and I wish you all a Happy New Year!

Kind regards,
Nuno André

Hello!

I am Nuno from Portugal and I started in microstock more than 10 years ago.

This is my first post here and I will create a thread to present a work in progress project based on microstock, to help an organization who cares of impaired and disable people, near the place where I live.

Thanks!

I wish you all a Happy New Year!

Kind regards,
Nuno