Animal Welfare Professionals

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

 I'm Noah and I am the Animal Control Officer for The City of Palacios in South Texas. I have an extensive background in shelter management/medicine, day practice and emergency medicine for animals. I started here in December and have slowly been making positive changes, however our facility is very small and not conducive to the future of what we have in mind as the building was a throw together after hurricane Harvey several years ago. We are having a very difficult time finding grants or any funding to help us even begin the process of having a new facility that suites our community needs for educational classes, an actual adoption area, and even being able to hold cool fundraising evets at the facility. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a one man show as far as enforcement goes and seems to be a 24/7 job in our small town and its just myself and our HR/Grant director to work on these things. 

#DisasterRelief
#FundraisingandDevelopment

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Noah Hendrixson
Animal Control Officer
City of Palacios Animal Care Services
TX
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Hey Noah!

Wowzers I'm super impressed by all that you're working on for your community. That's awesome!

I don't know specifically for facilities, but for grants, here's a few spots I know offer various animal welfare grants. You may have looked into these, but just in case: Petco Love Lost, Best Friends Animal Society, HASS (Human Animal Support Services), The Bissell Foundation, PetSmart Charities, ASPCA, HumanePro, Pedigree Foundation, NACA (National Animal Care & Control Association), Banfield Foundation, Lowe's Hometown Grants, & Walmart Charities. 

Additionally, not sure if Texas has this, but we have grants through Florida through the sale pet-themed license plates, so we receive grants through them occasionally. Lastly, I recommend checking with your local tax collector office. Our county collector here, chooses a different municipality or nonprofit each quarter to include in their tax collection letter that's mailed to citizens. We received $9K through that alone just last quarter.

Best wishes as you continue to pursue improving your facility to take care of the pets in your community! 

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Sarah Sukhram
Vol. & Foster Coordinator
Pasco County Animal Services
Land O' Lakes, FL
https://www.pascocountyfl.net/408/Animal-Services
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-07-2024 05:14 AM
From: Noah Hendrixson
Subject: New Facility Grants

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

 I'm Noah and I am the Animal Control Officer for The City of Palacios in South Texas. I have an extensive background in shelter management/medicine, day practice and emergency medicine for animals. I started here in December and have slowly been making positive changes, however our facility is very small and not conducive to the future of what we have in mind as the building was a throw together after hurricane Harvey several years ago. We are having a very difficult time finding grants or any funding to help us even begin the process of having a new facility that suites our community needs for educational classes, an actual adoption area, and even being able to hold cool fundraising evets at the facility. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a one man show as far as enforcement goes and seems to be a 24/7 job in our small town and its just myself and our HR/Grant director to work on these things. 

#DisasterRelief
#FundraisingandDevelopment

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Noah Hendrixson
Animal Control Officer
City of Palacios Animal Care Services
TX
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Hi Noah, 

Candid is a great resource for grant writing and they have a foundation directory at https://fconline.foundationcenter.org./

I would also do a search for local and neighboring area community foundations which will give grants to organizations within their corresponding geographic areas.

Treat also lists grants. They're list is listed at https://www.treatva.com/grants.

Best of luck with your work!

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Kade Alexie
Donor Support Specialist
Stray Cat Alliance
CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-07-2024 05:14 AM
From: Noah Hendrixson
Subject: New Facility Grants

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

 I'm Noah and I am the Animal Control Officer for The City of Palacios in South Texas. I have an extensive background in shelter management/medicine, day practice and emergency medicine for animals. I started here in December and have slowly been making positive changes, however our facility is very small and not conducive to the future of what we have in mind as the building was a throw together after hurricane Harvey several years ago. We are having a very difficult time finding grants or any funding to help us even begin the process of having a new facility that suites our community needs for educational classes, an actual adoption area, and even being able to hold cool fundraising evets at the facility. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a one man show as far as enforcement goes and seems to be a 24/7 job in our small town and its just myself and our HR/Grant director to work on these things. 

#DisasterRelief
#FundraisingandDevelopment

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Noah Hendrixson
Animal Control Officer
City of Palacios Animal Care Services
TX
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