Animal Welfare Professionals

This is wonderful, Elise, thank you! We are not a shelter, we are a small funding organization and our main focus is on keeping pets and their people together.  We raise money to help shelters do this.  Do you think this campaign would be beneficial to us or is it really geared towards shelters and rescues?

Thank you,

Hi, Johanna,

How beautiful your organization was founded in honor of your daughter--I love your mission! Organizations like yours are crucial to helping pets stay with their people instead of entering shelters unnecessarily, and this campaign is all about how it takes all of us (shelters, animal care and foster-based organizations, human services agencies, and individuals) to help pets and people thrive together in our communities. While the grant opportunity associated with this campaign is for California only, you're more than welcome to check out the Roundtable series, which is open to everyone, or even share these calls to action through your fund and in your community.

Soon we'll also be adding a social media toolkit to this page, which you could adapt and share on your own social media pages to encourage people to support you, your local shelter and other organizations in your community working to keep pets and people together.

Thanks for all you do, Johanna!

This is wonderful, Elise, thank you! We are not a shelter, we are a small funding organization and our main focus is on keeping pets and their people together.  We raise money to help shelters do this.  Do you think this campaign would be beneficial to us or is it really geared towards shelters and rescues?

Thank you,

Thank you for these resources! I will check them out; and just to clarify, we are a California organization, located in the Central Valley (Lemoore).

Hi, Johanna,

How beautiful your organization was founded in honor of your daughter--I love your mission! Organizations like yours are crucial to helping pets stay with their people instead of entering shelters unnecessarily, and this campaign is all about how it takes all of us (shelters, animal care and foster-based organizations, human services agencies, and individuals) to help pets and people thrive together in our communities. While the grant opportunity associated with this campaign is for California only, you're more than welcome to check out the Roundtable series, which is open to everyone, or even share these calls to action through your fund and in your community.

Soon we'll also be adding a social media toolkit to this page, which you could adapt and share on your own social media pages to encourage people to support you, your local shelter and other organizations in your community working to keep pets and people together.

Thanks for all you do, Johanna!

This is wonderful, Elise, thank you! We are not a shelter, we are a small funding organization and our main focus is on keeping pets and their people together.  We raise money to help shelters do this.  Do you think this campaign would be beneficial to us or is it really geared towards shelters and rescues?

Thank you,

Thank you Elise! I work for a wonderful, fairly large cat rescue/adoption/medical facility in North Hollywood, CA. A few years ago, we opened a clinic for both cats and dogs in nearby Chatsworth CA.  I am also a proud pet owner of three beautiful cats, Ziggy, Zappa and Ursula - all 15 years old now (all pulled from South LA Shelter). As my cats have gotten older, the medical expenses have really skyrocketed. I always wonder why medical expenses for animals are not tax deductible? How to make that happen? Certainly, this would be so helpful to many of us who are doing everything to care for our animals.

I just subscribed to your newsletter. Thanks for everything you are doing for animals.

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Suzanne Phillips
Development Manager
Heaven on Earth
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What a stunning trio,  Suzanne! I have two tuxedo cats, so I have to say I'm partial. 🙂 Thank you for signing up for the Cal for All newsletter and for your work on behalf of pets and people in SoCal!

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Elise Winn Pollard
UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program - www.sheltermedicine.com
California for All Animals - www.californiaforallanimals.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-17-2023 02:33 PM
From: Suzanne Phillips
Subject: What does More Pets and People Together mean to you?

Thank you Elise! I work for a wonderful, fairly large cat rescue/adoption/medical facility in North Hollywood, CA. A few years ago, we opened a clinic for both cats and dogs in nearby Chatsworth CA.  I am also a proud pet owner of three beautiful cats, Ziggy, Zappa and Ursula - all 15 years old now (all pulled from South LA Shelter). As my cats have gotten older, the medical expenses have really skyrocketed. I always wonder why medical expenses for animals are not tax deductible? How to make that happen? Certainly, this would be so helpful to many of us who are doing everything to care for our animals.

I just subscribed to your newsletter. Thanks for everything you are doing for animals.

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Suzanne Phillips
Development Manager
Heaven on Earth

Hi Elise,

Thank you so much for letting us know about these opportunities. I am on the Board of Directors for a California-based organization that is very similar to Johanna Spielman's. (Thank you Johanna for your question!) I am excited to see all the resources and grant opportunities that will be provided.

Much appreciation,