- WHO THEY ARE
- WHAT THEY DO
- MATTER OF IMPORTANCE
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This blog is dedicated to the preservation of earth and those that inhabit it.
Rescue Farm is a prime example of a non-profit organization that strives to perform is main goal. By coming up with unique ideas, they maximize their potential in achieving their ultimate goal: saving pets lives.
MATTER OF IMPORTANCE
Rescue Farm plays an active role in the community. By forming partnerships with other animal shelters, they help decrease the number of animal euthanasia that take place. Their work helps people enjoy animals as companions that give benefits of even reducing stress. A study they site on their website shows that spending 15-20 minutes petting an animal reduces stress levels. Also, they partner with Petsmart on a number of things like the Santa photos, as well as adopting cats and dogs out through their store. They play an active role in community by giving back. They helped the Owen County Dog show purchase new agility training equipment. Rescue Farm is a great example of how to interact with the community to become more known and increase public awareness of the issues your organization supports.
WildCare Inc. is a non-profit organization located in south central Indiana dedicated to, "Providing professional care to sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife in Indiana". Originally, they were part of the Monroe County Humane Association (MCHA). However, they refocused their mission to caring for companion pets, so WildCare Inc. became a separate entity in the spring of 2001 dedicated to wildlife preservation. They pride themselves in the fact that they accept all forms of wildlife, except for adult deer and raccoons. They have taken in over 7,000 animals since their opening. However, due to their licensing, they are not open to the public. Most centers use the availability of the openness to the public as a chance to educate the community. Since they do not have this opportunity, they offer other beneficial educational opportunities to the community.
What they do
WildCare Inc. provides an important role to wildlife and the community. Saving wildlife for them is the ability to care for injured, sick, or orphaned animals, but then having the ability to release them back to the wild, so that they may live their lives as they were meant to. However, there are always some that become unreleasable due to certain situations. WildCare Inc. uses this opportunity to use these unreleasable animals as "ambassadors" for their education outreach programs. They offer a number of educational opportunities from allowing local fourth grade classes attend for free, WildCamp in the summer, and other programs.
A couple of their ambassadors.
In order to maintain their organization, they rely on donations. They offer a unique method of donating by allowing people that use their Pay Pal credit cards at Marsh, Speedway, or Kroger to make part of their purchase contribute to their organization. Running a non-profit is not easy, and they rely on members of the community to help support their meaningful efforts in saving local wildlife.
Matter of Importance
WildCare Inc is important to the community because it helps maintain local wildlife that might otherwise perish. They enable continuing generations to enjoy wildlife native to the area by saving these injured animals and then releasing them back to the wild. They also aid in helping educate the community. By offering several different programs, they ensure that children throughout the area will have a chance to see these marvelous animals first-hand and retain knowledge that will last a lifetime in maintaining wildlife for all to enjoy.
For more information on WildCare Inc, visit: http://www.wildcareinc.org/index.html.
Pets Alive is a low cost, non-profit spay and neuter clinic located in Bloomington, Indiana. They first began in 2002 with their Adopt-A-Pet program. Within 14 months, they found homes for 350 pets. However, the cost of running this was too costly. Also, they felt that they were not solving the root of the problem. Instead, they began focusing on spaying and neutering in 2004. After conducting research for nearly a year, they based their organization off of the successful spay and neuter clinic based in Asheville, North Carolina: http://www.humanealliance.org/. Since they have opened in 2005, Pets Alive has sterilized over 20,000 pets.
Pets Alive offers a number of important treatments for the pets of Indiana. For one, they offer low cost spaying and neutering at $55 for all dogs, $50 for female cats, and $30 for male cats. In order to have this operation, pets must have proof of Indiana's state required vaccinations, being a rabies vaccination. If they have not had their rabies vaccination, an $8 rabies vaccination will be given. Another important treatment they offer is microchipping. At a low cost of $25 pet pet, it enables pet owners to keep track of their pets if they were to become lost and returned to a shelter because the chip contains the owner's contact information. Also, for pets being treated, their owners receive recommendations to local veterinarians to increase awareness of responsible pet ownership.
Pets Alive offers a unique way to help donate to their facility. They offer the recycling of old cell phones and ink cartridges which aids in turning "trash into cash". This is just one example of how a non-profit organization can utilize the community to aid in generating extra money for their organization. Also, they welcome volunteers from the area to help with everyday tasks and relies on the community's support to thrive. Donations are what enables Pets Alive to continue its work of spaying and neutering pets at low-costs. Without donations, it would not be possible.
Pets Alive serves an important role in ending animal overpopulation. Overpopulation leads to cruel and usual punishment of animals that are unable to receive loving, good homes. It also leads to the euthanasia of many pets that turn up in animal shelters. By providing a low-cost spay and neuter clinic to the community, pet overpopulation will decrease. Also, they enable pets to receive vaccinations for a fraction of the cost for people who would otherwise not even take their pets in for veterinary care. In an indirect way, they are also protecting the community against sick and stray animals. As many people know, rabies can be given to humans. This is why it is so important that they offer this service at their clinic. At the same time, they encourage the education of responsible pet owners by offering visitors to their clinic recommendations on local veterinary care. Also, they help support the end of pollution by offering donations to their clinic in the form of recycling old cell phones and ink cartridges that would otherwise be thrown away. Pets Alive offers a number of important roles in the community and will be able to continue to do so with community support.
For information about Pets Alive and opportunities for donations, visit:
Although a zoo may not be exactly what people think of in terms of an animal shelter, some are in the fact that they help conserve animals and wildlife, in not just their parks, but the wild as well. The Fort Wayne Zoo in Indiana does just that. They began their zoo as a nature preserve in 1952. Since then, they have expanded rapidly into a well-developed zoo through dedication to wildlife and fostering the community in wildlife education. They are also a non-profit organization supported by no tax dollars. They were one of the nation's first zoos that was able to support itself through admissions, concessions, rides, and so forth. By creating a publicly interactive organization, they are able to raise funds to help support their dedications to wildlife, and thus continue to strive. With preservation being their dedication, it is no wonder that they have so many great educational opportunities to interact with the community.
The Fort Wayne Children's Zoo is successful because of the number of special activities that help get the community involved. A couple of the most important ones are the Adopt-An-Animal program and educational opportunities. Their Adopt-An-Animal program allows people to choose what animal they would like to adopt by paying fees that directly benefit the zoo and its animals. In return, donors receive photographs, fact sheets, certificates of adoption, and other great benefits. Its one way for them to receive funds and also to get the community involved. Aside from this, they offer a range of educational opportunities. Obviously, they allow schools to visit them and in exchange educate the children that come and give them a great experience in animal interaction. Another option they offer is for the zoo to go to them. They go to schools and can bring live animals to share with the students, enabling them to experience wild animals first hand and knowledge that will last a lifetime. For further education, they also offer volunteer positions each year as well as internships. Clearly, the zoo has several educational opportunities that make it as successful as it is.
The Fort Wayne Children's Zoo benefits society in a number of ways. Its educational opportunities encourage youth to enjoy wildlife and to learn more about it. Increasing interest in wildlife helps promote responsible citizens in caring for their environment as well as the possibilities of them developing a desire for those areas as professions. Their internships and volunteer programs allow teens to get hands on experience to find out if wildlife is their "calling". They also offer a $2,000 scholarship for high school students that are going into an animal field. The Fort Wayne Children's Zoo represents how important an organization can be to a community. The community gives and the zoo gives back. Without the community, the zoo could not exist, because they rely on their funds to achieve their goals of animal preservation. On the other hand, they give right back by helping develop educated members of the community and encouraging the pursuit of knowledge and care for the environment.
For more information, visit the following sites:
Zoo Website: http://www.kidszoo.org/
Their history: http://www.kidszoo.org/pdfs/fwczhistory.pdf