Animal Welfare Professionals

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

We put bins at our local grocery stores. 

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

We are also very rural. I post to Facebook with images and links to our wish lists when we are getting low, asking if anyone could pick up one or two items while they are running errands.  Our local Walmart gives us damaged items almost weekly. 
Cuddly, while a great idea, has not worked for us because our donors prefer to give straight to us. People have asked for a Venmo but there is a reason we do are not able to have one and I cannot recall why. I think it is something to do with taxes. 
Petco does donations and fundraising at the register for us. Just this week, I picked up 60 cans of cat food and dozens of tennis balls. They will also help with more needed items, we just need to let them know (such as the Iams for our sensitive stomach friends).
I have considered putting a box in store but never seem to have the time!

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions! 

Thanks, Kate for all the great suggestions! How did you go about approaching Walmart for donations? They told us we had to submit a letter requesting it, which I did but never heard back from them. Any tips on how you become a partner with Walmart would be appreciated! 

I am also curious how you get donations/fundraising done at Petco. According to the adoption partner handbook we received from them, they do not allow individual fundraising or donations for a rescue that partners with them because they have their nationwide initiatives. Just curious if you spoke to a lead director of Petco, etc. to get authorization to do this.  The manager of Petco that we work with told us the same thing that the adoption handbook specified (ie: no donations), so just wondering how we can do what you do at our Petco location. 

Best, 
Kelsey  

We are also very rural. I post to Facebook with images and links to our wish lists when we are getting low, asking if anyone could pick up one or two items while they are running errands.  Our local Walmart gives us damaged items almost weekly. 
Cuddly, while a great idea, has not worked for us because our donors prefer to give straight to us. People have asked for a Venmo but there is a reason we do are not able to have one and I cannot recall why. I think it is something to do with taxes. 
Petco does donations and fundraising at the register for us. Just this week, I picked up 60 cans of cat food and dozens of tennis balls. They will also help with more needed items, we just need to let them know (such as the Iams for our sensitive stomach friends).
I have considered putting a box in store but never seem to have the time!

Hi Everyone! The rescue I volunteer for is a foster-based, small rescue. We partner with Petsmart Charities and Petco Foundation, however because we are smaller and located in a rural area, we don't qualify for a lot of the grants they offer. Due to corporate changes, they are also not allowed to donate food to rescues anymore (we originally would collect the one day past expiration food from them and use the next day). With the ever increasing prices of pet food, this has really been a blow to our rescue and we are struggling on ways to get donated food to help feed our animals in our care. Here is what we have tried so far: 

1. We have setup a chewy wishlist, amazon wishlist, and are affiliated with Cuddly
2. At adoption events, we request donations
3. We have held food donation drives (this has brought in 3-5 bags of dog food)  

I would love to hear from everyone else regarding how you get food donations coming in for your rescue. If you have letters you send to companies, etc. can you please share an example template? Thank you everyone for the suggestions!