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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Project Compassion Receives VFW’s 2007 Gold Medal of Merit: Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Awarded On the Heels of American Legion 2007 Public Service Award
MANTI, UTAH (February 15, 2007) — Project Compassion (www.heropaintings.com), a humanitarian organization which provides gallery-quality oil portraits of fallen Americans in uniform to their next of kin at no cost, announced today that the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has awarded its Commander-in-Chief’s Gold Medal of Merit Award for 2007 to Project Compassion. Stated the VFW’s letter notifying Project Compassion of this honor: “This award is presented to individuals to recognize exceptional service rendered to their country, community and mankind on a national or intertational level.”
Commander-in-Chief Gary Kurpius will recognize Kaziah Hancock, Founding Artist and President of Project Compassion on behalf of veterans and “all those serving in uniform” at the Business Session of its annual National Community Service/Legislative Conference Monday, March 5, 2007 in Washington, D.C.
The VFW honor comes on the heels of a similar major award from the American Legion Auxiliary, the largest patriotic women’s service organization in the world, with 900,000 members, which will present its 2007 Public Service Award to Ms. Hancock immediately following the VFW event the same day at its own annual convention, also in Washington, D.C.
ABOUT PROJECT COMPASSION
Project Compassion (Project Compassion Soldier Fund, Inc., (www.heropaintings.com) is a privately-funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit humanitarian organization founded in 2002 by Kaziah Hancock, a professional Utah artist. The organization provides one gallery-quality, 18”x 24” original oil portrait of every American in uniform who has passed away on active duty since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to their families. Project Compassion is endorsed and in partnership with the Department of Defense and all branches of the armed services.
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CONTACT:
Kaziah Hancock
Project Compassion
(435) 835-9429 direct
projectcompassion@manti.com
www.heropaintings.com
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Kaziah Paintings on Exhibit in Berkeley, CA
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09/14/2009
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September 23rd through September 27th. Berkeley, CA. In conjunction with the premiere of the documentary “Kaziah The Goat Woman” on September 26th at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival, and for the first time on the West Coast, a powerful collection of Kaziah’s original oil paintings, from portraits to landscapes, will be on exhibit at the Subterranean arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA. A majority of the proceeds from the sale of the paintings will benefit Project Compassion. For more information visit: http://www.kaziahthedocumentary.com
Kaziah Wins XO Award for Project Compassion
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09/13/2009
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Kirton & McConkie XO Awards have recognized Kaziah's extraordinary acts of kindness. Check out http://www.luminpublishing.com/xo/2009-04-KaziahHancock.html for more details.
Project Compassion Receives VFW’s 2007 Gold Medal of Merit
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02/15/2007
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MANTI, UTAH (February 15, 2007) — Project Compassion (www.heropaintings.com), a humanitarian organization which provides gallery-quality oil portraits of fallen Americans in uniform to their next of kin at no cost, announced today that the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has awarded its Commander-in-Chief’s Gold Medal of Merit Award for 2007 to Project Compassion. Stated the VFW’s letter notifying Project Compassion of this honor: “This award is presented to individuals to recognize exceptional service rendered to their country, community and mankind on a national or intertational level.”
Press Release
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05/05/2005
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U.S. Military Partners Project compassion for inclusion in cascualty kits. Department of Defense, Armed Services Endorse Program offering Gallery-Quality Oil portraits of fallen heros to families; All families to be contacted.
Face to face with the fallen
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10/07/2004
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Julie Cawley Hanson remembers making the trip to see the nearly finished portrait
of her brother, Marine Staff Sgt. James W. Cawley, in Kaziah Hancock's studio.
Along with Cawley's wife, Miyuki, and two aunts, she wanted to see the painting
the Manti artist had offered to do for free when she heard Cawley had been killed
in the Iraq war. "It was just a sweet experience. The light was coming in through
the window on his face and we just couldn't believe...
http://www.sltrib.com/search
Woman paints pictures of dead soldiers
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09/28/2004
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Manti artist Kaziah Hancock compares her compassion to a bottomless well
to explain how she's able to complete painting after painting of U.S. soldiers.
killed in Iraq and still remain upbeat. One person told Hancock that if their
house were on fire, her painting would be the first thing they would save.
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=35869
Special report: Portrait of courage
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05/07/2003
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Utah artist Kaziah Hancock is so moved by the sacrifices of American lives
during the war in Iraq that she is determined to pay tribute, through her work,
to each one of those men and women who lost their lives.
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=26688
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