Animal Welfare Professionals

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We'd be able to accomplish our goal of ______ if we had _________.

We'd be able to accomplish our goal of funding 100% of our partner's grant requests that would address the root cause of animal homelessness and reduce shelter intake in our community if we had $40, 000 more in donor support! We are working on it 

(We are a coalition building organization)

As  someone who is a survivor of 4 strokes I have learned not to look too far down the road. We have applied for grants - have 10 out right now. But we are out of the box and aren't often considered. Some how we did about $750,000 of in-kind goods  and services to all 15 counties of Arizona- on just over $16,000 last year.  We almost made it through summer this year. It is challenging not to say " darn it, we havent had any large disasters in Arizona this summer", (and a fund raiser we have been a part of four four years didn't happen  - to late to do anything else). to generate our usual revenue to carry us through.

So I am preparing to use our last dollars for gas to go Show Low with a truck full of donated items for homeless/near homeless Veterans of that low income county with volunteers from there.  Then I will come back, hoping that my efforts to ask for $200 on line, so that I can do the same thing again going to Sierra vista , yet another low income county,.  the following weekend.

So I would say - We'd be able to accomplish our goal of service to pets/service dogs and their owners to keep them in their home, if only we had faith the size of a mustard seed.  We do every bit we can - we let the rest go.(and keep those eyes and feet moving forward)!

I say this to all of you, I hope you hear.!  There is not one person on this list that isn't doing every thing you can do.  You cant dwell on what isn't being done -you will drown with grief.   I just got off the hone with a lady who has cancer that her kinds are stealing her food.  I had answers - from my bed, barely able to move.  Let it be enough that you make a difference because  if will never be enough  time, money, effort , resources...  It matters that you try.  If the guy upstairs wants something different, he will help! 

Now that is a good answer- We are able to accomplish our goal of moving forward, if we had each other to learn on!

We'd be able to accomplish our goal of saving the lives of more cats and kittens if we had the funding for a foster program.  

The program would have to include funding for a foster coordinator because it's not something that can be done by volunteers alone.   We can only house X amount of kitties in our brick and mortar building, in order to save more lives, we need more space - and the homes of people is where that space has to come from.   The cost of maintaining a brick and mortar building is already costly, worth it, but costly.