photo release forms/blog photo inclusion

We hope that as more senior missionaries participate on this blog, they will want to share photos of   successful activities,uplifting service project ideas and great experiences shared with the wonderful youth of the WIM! In order to do so, we must all go through some necessary preparation to include those photos.


The following is a form that must be signed in order to comply with the Church's requirement for any photos to be on a church affiliated blog or website online.  Copy it, then have any youth or people in your photo sign it, scan and send it to marilynn.monson@myldsmail.net.  After the local people in your area have signed the photo permission, then you may post their photos by emailing them to me with the signed form and I will include your write-up and activity with photos for others to enjoy and hopefully be able to copy and do themselves! We hope this will become a storehouse of ideas that will inspire us all!

 This is a Participant Release (Release to Use Name, Image, Voice, Likeness, and Performance form.

Title of Submission: ____________________________________________________________________
I, the undersigned, irreversibly grant to Intellectual Reserve, Inc., its related entities, and their respective employees, agents, and representatives (collectively called “IRI”), the full right to create and obtain, in the past, present, and in the future, images, photographs, video, audio, interviews, stories, personal histories, performances (vocal, instrumental, dramatic, or otherwise), mixes, and any other recordings, documents, or materials, in any now known or future media, of my name, image, voice, likeness, performance, and other items (collectively called “Recordings”). I also authorize IRI to copyright, adapt, edit, translate, summarize, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, publish, license, sublicense, sell, broadcast, post or stream over the Internet, and otherwise use and allow others to use any and all parts of the Recordings, forever and throughout the world, in any and all manners, and in any and all forms of media that IRI believes suitable.
I agree that I shall have no right, title, or interest in or to the Recordings (or to any work comprising or based on the Recordings, in whole or in part), and that all right, title, and interest in and to the Recordings belongs to IRI. I waive any and all right to payment or other compensation arising from or related to the Recordings. I will not state or imply, or allow others to state or imply, that IRI approves of or endorses me or my activities. I further agree to release, defend, and hold IRI harmless from any claims, damages, or liabilities related to the Recordings or IRI’s use thereof. I understand this Release is governed by the laws of the State of Utah, U.S.A.
________________________________________________________________________________
By signing below, I represent that I have read this Release, understand its contents, and agree to this Release.
Name
Address
Date
Signature
Telephone

Name
Address
Date
Signature
Telephone

Name
Address
Date
Signature
Telephone
________________________________________________________________________________
Parent/Guardian Consent (If anyone listed above is a minor, that person’s parent/guardian must sign below.)
I, the undersigned, hereby warrant and represent that I am the parent or legal guardian of the minor child named above and printed next to my name below (the “Youth”), that I have full authority to execute this Release on behalf of the Youth, that I have read this Release, and that by signing below I have granted this Release on behalf of the Youth. I hereby agree that I, the Youth, and all other parents or legal guardians, if any, will be bound by all releases, consents, and covenants contained in this Release. I further agree to indemnify and defend IRI against any and all liabilities relating to the Youth’s actions in connection with the Recordings or IRI’s use thereof.
Name
Youth’s Name
Date
Signature
Your Telephone

Name
Youth’s Name
Date
Signature
Your Telephone

Name
Youth’s Name
Date
Signature
Your Telephone
Participant Release (Release to Use Name, Image, Voice, Likeness, and Performance)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE
50 E NORTH TEMPLE, FL 18
SALT LAKE CITY UT 84150-3011
PHONE 801-240-3959
________________________________________________________________________________
The following is a Professional Photographer Release to Use Image form which also must be copied, signed and sent prior to posting PROFESSIONAL photos on this blog.  If the photos are not professional, but amateur from a private camera or phone picture, use the form above. 

Release to Use Image
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE
50 E NORTH TEMPLE ST
SALT LAKE CITY UT 84150-0018
Telephone 1-801-240-3959
Fax 1-801-240-1187
cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org
IP code
File number (if assigned)
PO number
Parties to Release
This Release to Use Image (hereinafter, “Release”) is an agreement and release between Intellectual Reserve, Inc. (IRI), and
Name (“Grantor”)________________________________________________________________
Phone (with area code)____________________________________________________________
Address________________________________________________________________________
Name of photographer____________________________________________________________
Terms and Conditions
In consideration of the mutual promises and covenants hereinafter contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, Grantor and IRI hereby agree:
1. Grantor hereby irreversibly grants to IRI, its related entities, and their respective employees, agents, and representatives (collectively “IRI”) the full right to create and obtain, in the past, now, and in the future, images, photographs, video, audio, interviews, stories, personal histories, and any other recordings, documents, or materials Grantor may make available to IRI (in whole or in part, in any and all languages, and with or without credit to Grantor), in any now known or future media, of Grantor’s name, image, voice, likeness, personal information, or other items (collectively “Grantor’s Image”). Grantor further authorizes IRI to copyright, adapt, edit, summarize, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, publish, license, sell, broadcast, post or stream over the Internet, create derivative works from, and otherwise use any and all parts of Grantor’s Image, forever and throughout the world, in any and all manners, and in any and all forms of media that IRI believes suitable.
2. Grantor hereby agrees that Grantor shall have no right (including, without limitation, copyright), title, or interest in or to Grantor’s Image or to any IRI work or publication or any material included therein pursuant to this Release and that Grantor shall have no claim of any kind or nature whatsoever against IRI based on the exercise of any rights granted hereunder. Nothing herein will constitute any obligation on the part of IRI to make any use of any of the rights set forth herein. Grantor waives any and all right to payment or other compensation arising from or related to Grantor’s Image. Grantor will not state or imply, or allow others to state or imply, that IRI approves of or endorses Grantor or Grantor’s activities.
3. Grantor represents and warrants to IRI that Grantor is free to enter into this Release and that Grantor’s performance hereunder will not conflict with any other agreement or understanding to which Grantor may be a party.
4. Grantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that in the event of any breach or alleged breach by IRI of any of its obligations to Grantor, Grantor shall be limited to Grantor’s remedies at law for damages and shall not be entitled to terminate or rescind this Release. This Release shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors, heirs, assigns, and legal representatives and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Utah, excluding conflict-of-law principles. If any dispute arises out of or relates to this Release, the parties agree to the jurisdiction of the courts in the State of Utah for purposes of any action instituted pursuant to this Release.
In Witness Whereof
The parties have affixed their signatures to this Release. By signing below, Grantor warrants and represents that he or she has read this Release, understands its contents, and has the legal capacity to execute this Release.
Intellectual Reserve, Inc.________________________________________________________
Date__________________________
Grantor_______________________________________________________________________
Date__________________________
Reserved for IRI description of content
Parental Consent If Grantor is a minor child, Grantor’s parent or legal guardian must complete the following.
I, the undersigned, hereby warrant and represent that I am the parent or legal guardian of the minor child named on this Release (“Grantor”), that I have full authority to execute this Release on behalf of Grantor, that I have read this Release, and that by signing below I have granted this Release on behalf of Grantor. I hereby agree that I and said Grantor and all other parents or legal guardians, if any, will be bound by all releases, consents, and covenants contained in this Release.
Name of parent or guardian_______________________________________________________
Signature_____________________________________________________________________
Date_________________________________________________________________________
Address______________________________________________________________________
Phone (with area code)__________________________________________________________

over one hundred fifty Youth &YSA activities/service projects

 Over one Hundred Fifty Youth & YSA Activities/Service Projects

●       72-hour kits

●       3^rd Nephi read- in/testimony meeting

●       Act out scenes from Book of Mormon or other scriptures

●       Aerobics class

●       Anger management class

●       Auction

●       Badminton tournament

●       Ball hockey

●       Basic mending

●       Basics of reading music

●       Basketball

●       BBQing (how to; recipes, eating/sampling)

●       Beauty tips

●       Beach party

●       Bingo using a theme (Christmas, prophets, individual books in each canon of scripture)

●       Board games/Clue, Monopoly, Checkers, Chess, Settlers of Catan; small groups rotate people from their game to different combinations of people at the next table

●       Bon fire (hot dog/marshmallow roast)

●       Book of Mormon party with activities (Great & Spacious Building/ Samuel the Lamanite/ Crossing the great waters)

●       Bubble blowing contest

●       Budgeting class

●       Building self-esteem class

●       Car wash (as a group go to a less active person and offer to wash their car for free)

●       Camping

●       Candy making

●       Car maintenance: how to jump start a car/change a tire/change oil

●       Card making

●       Career days (go as a group to learn about a certain vocation)

●       Career planning class

●       Characters from scriptures dressed up and enacted by members

●       Charades using scenes and characters from scriptures

●       Christmas advent calendars

●       Christmas sugar cookies- decorating

●       Christmas Caroling

●       Christmas nativity production

●       Christmas white elephant party

●       Christmas piñata party

●       Christmas gingerbread house making/ graham crackers, make icing and candy

●       Community Christmas musical/nativity production/invite neighbors

●       Christmas secret Santa

●       Christmas service project: make stuffed toys/scrap fabric dolls for children

●       Christmas letters/ send to Trinidad missionaries

●       Christmas sub for santa

●       Christmas handmade ornaments/goodies/take to a widow or less active

●       Christmas tree delivered to a needy family at Christmas time/string popcorn & make colored paper ornaments

●       Clean someone's car (inside and out)

●       Clean someone's home

●       Clean the church (inside and outside/grounds)

●       Cook meals for needy/elderly

●       Coloring book/crayons night/copy a coloring book page, have a race to see 1^st, prettiest, most creative, sit at tables and visit while coloring

●       Computer class

●       Cookbooks/collect recipes from branch members

●       Cooking with beans

●       Cooking with chocolate (melt, add milk and dip fruit, cake, marshmellows)

●       Crafts

●       Cricket

●       Creative writing (select a subject/write poetry/read them together)

●       Crochet (have someone teach and everyone make a hot-pad or dishcloth)

●       Crime prevention class

●       Cross-stitch

●       Cultural event (food/items from other countries/invite non- members from a different culture to present their traditions and foods)

●       Dance

●       Dinner/Dance

●       Dessert contest (judged by bishopric)

●       Do someone's laundry

●       Donate clothes/toys/household items to needy family (gather unused items from ward/branch families & from non-members)

●       Drama/play/musical event

●       Drawing class (set up a still life arrangement; fruit, pitcher &napkin etc. and have everyone sketch it with either pencil or charcoal)

●       Easy hair cutting class

●       Eating contests (pie, watermelon seed spitting, most # of marshmallows in your mouth, # of pancakes, # hard boiled eggs)

●       Excel spread sheet training class

●       Family history (genealogy class)

●       Family Home Evening kits (cut out pictures of scripture stories online, color, glue on flannel, cover cardboard with flannel/ write lessons)

●       Fireside: invite a returned missionary from Trinidad to speak

●       First aid class

●       Fishing

●       Food storage

●       Food Cook-off (chose a type of food, e.g., pie,  and hold a contest for best tasting

●       Football

●       Frugal living class

●       Games: Puzzles, capture the flag, dominoes, checkers, clue, Settlers of Catan

●       Get-to-know-you activity: each person bring something that is an interest or hobby and tell the group about it

●       Goal setting and achieving

●       Gratitude night – share what thankful for

●       Guess the picture of each person as a baby

●       Carving: soap, (ivory soap is best) pumpkins, balsam wood, carrots, apples

●       Health & nutrition class

●       Help out at shelters/hospitals/nursing homes

●       Hike/picnic

●       Hold a free musical concert (instruments/choirs/bands)

●       Homemade pizza (make the dough/ every person put on their own  toppings)

●       How to choose flattering clothing class

●       How to braid, cut, and care for hair

●       How-to classes: make bread, fish, tennis, make repairs; use experts in ward/branch

●       Hymn/testimony meeting (pick favorite hymn and explain why meaningful to you)

●       Internet-use class: gathering information for family needs and church callings

●       Jewelry making class

●       Job preparation (resume writing, interviews, looking for work) class

●       Journaling class 

●       Knitting class

●       Learning to listen and communicate class

●       Litter cleanup service project (roads/parks/neighborhoods)

●       Magic tricks (shared and learned)

●       Make a book (story/coloring book/activity book)

●       Make a video (many digital cameras take video clips, WinXP comes with video editing software, phone video)

●       Marriage preparation class

●       Meal planning class

●       Mechanics (have someone come demonstrate and teach from ward or branch)

●       Miniature putt-putt golf (make your own course; each person makes one hole)

●       Miracles in our lives (share experiences when blessed in extraordinary ways)

●       Missionary letters

●       Missionary night (acquire Books of Mormon from mission; each person write testimony in front and gives it to someone by a certain date and tell group of experience)

●       Missionary open house (for friends and family to get to know church members)    

●       Money management (budgeting/saving)

●       Mormon Carnival party/costumes, music contests, food

●       Movies/clean wholesome church standards i.e., Man from Snowy River, Pirates of the Caribbean, Princess Bride, Chariots of fire, Cool Running, Miracle on Ice, Crocodile Dundee, Rudy, Field of Dreams

●       Music conducting class

●       Nutrition class

●       Organizational class (how to get organized)

●       Painting/acrylic/finger or face painting class

●       Paper folding/airplanes/origami (making animals &birds out of paper)

●       Patriotic class/history of your country

●       Photography class

●       Picnic

●       Plant tours (Coca-cola, Hershey’s, Nestle’s, oil refinery)

●       Poetry class (learn to write/read poetry)

●       Poetry readings

●       Pool party

●       Potluck meal

●       Power dating activity (long tables with men on one side, women on the other, generate a list of open ended questions for them to interact; timed movement to the left for the men after 5-7 minutes)

●       Power-point or excel training class

●       Preparation for patriarchal blessings class

●       Puzzle party

●       Reading class

●       Read to elderly people

●       Scavenger hunt

●       Scripture study course (Resources in the scriptures and internet & how to use them)

●       Scripture sharing (pick topic: everyone brings favorite scripture and explains why)

●       Scripture memorization relay (two teams; sacks with individual words from scripture; race to see which team can put together scripture first)

●       Self-defense class

●       Sign Language class

●       Singing at hospitals/nursing homes

●       Skits in a bag/ divide into groups (2-3 min) have a bag with a few random items & come up with a skit using them

●       Small plates of Nephi night: journaling sacred personal experiences

●       Snow ball fight with paper snow balls/ make ahead/teams

●       Softball

●       Soccer

●       Spaghetti eating contest (sit at a plastic covered table, hands tied behind back sitting across from someone- race person across to eat the plate of spaghetti with no utensils)

●       Story telling (Suggest themes i.e., something you were afraid of as a child, your first memory, funniest memory, happy family memories, the best day of your life so far, who is your favorite sibling and why, what was your most embarrassing moment, what was your favorite family pet)

●       Story telling to children service project

●       Sugar cube Temples (build temples with sugar cubes, take Photos)

●       Surprise visit (with treats or gifts) to less active

●       Talent Show night

●       Tell stories from personal history night

●       Temple preparation class

●       Temple trip (including baptisms for dead for unendowed)

●       Themed parties; (medieval, Hawaiian, retro, backwards)

●       Treasure hunt

●       TV game shows: jeopardy, family feud, wheel of fortune

●       Ultimate Frisbee/set up a course and throw the Frisbee as in Soccer

●       Video game night

●       Vocational training visits (contact leaders, ask them to come present their profession)

●       Wash windows (members/church/other buildings/homes)

●       Watch sunrise (tell stories/share testimonies)

●       Wood working/whittling, refinishing or painting furniture

●       Yard cleanup (grass/weeds/leaves/trash/etc)

●       Yoga (or other types of relaxation/exercise/stretching)