Shelter’s Edge

Earlier this week you met our mighty contenders representing the Southwest in the ASPCA $100K Challenge. Now we’re headin’ north, where there are so many competing agencies that we’ll need 2 blog entries to introduce them all.

Here’s the first half of your Northeastern exposure.

Animal Rescue League of Boston, Boston, MA
Q: Describe your organization in three words.
A: Willing, able and creative

Q: What makes you a tough contender?
A: At ARL Boston, we have very creative people on staff that pour an amazing amount of heart into their work with the animals. The staff do a great job placing cats and dogs who might be considered hard to adopt.

Q: How will you spend the $100K?
A: We would use this $100,000 to help continue programs that make a solid impact on our mission, like low-cost spay/neuter and funding medical cases that go beyond the standard basic care. Examples of these cases are animals with orthopedic concerns who need treatment to help them become adoptable.

Animal Welfare Association, Voorhees, NJ
Q: Describe your organization in three words.
A: Engaged, Progressive, Dedicated

Q: What makes you a tough contender?
A: We are a small organization that understands the big picture. We use progressive programs and ideas to impact the lives of pets in our community and beyond.

Q: What’s the most important message—in one sentence—that you’d like to pass on to your community?
A: We believe that everyone in our community has the ability to be part of the solution.

Monmouth County SPCA, Eatontown, NJ
Q: What makes you a tough contender?
A: We’ve recently completed a fabulous shelter renovation and are leveraging our new digs into great adoption numbers!

Q: How would you use the $100K?
A: We’d do more of the incredible work on spay/neuter, behavioral training, humane education and outreach that we already do.

Q: What’s the most important message—in one sentence—that you’d like to pass on to your community?
A: More than 4,000 lost, homeless, stray or abused animals come to the MCSPCA every year—please spay and neuter your pet!

New Hampshire SPCA, Stratham, NH
Q: Describe your organization in three words.
A: Saving animals every day

Q: What makes you a tough contender?
A: The NHSPCA is a contender for winning the ASPCA Challenge because we will go to any lengths to save more animals’ lives. We will embrace creative, ‘out of the box’ thinking and will take immediate action to find more homes for more animals in need. We have a long history and proven track record of putting the needs of animals ahead of all else and look forward to expanding our safety net even further.

Q: What’s the most important message—in one sentence—that you’d like to pass on to your community?
A: Animals in your neighborhood need help, and the NHSPCA is here to provide it.

Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Philadelphia, PA
Q: Describe your organization in three words.
A. Rescue, Prevention, Education

Q: What makes you a tough contender?
A: Philadelphia’s homeless pets have a formidable network of animal lovers on their side. PAWS’ lifesaving efforts are carried out with the tireless help of thousands of volunteers, foster parents, local businesses, community groups, sports teams, media partners and other supporters. True lifesaving progress can only be made with the support of the whole community, and our friends always rise to the challenge!

Q: How will you spend the $100K?
A: We would expand and enhance our adoption and foster care programs. The $100K would also support our Spay/Neuter and Wellness Clinic, allowing us to provide spay/neuter surgery and basic veterinary care to the city’s neediest pets and the people who love them.

Rochester Animal Services, Rochester, NY
Q: Describe your organization in three words.
A: Compassionate, Pro-active, Driven

Q: How would you use the $100K?
A: We’d use the grant to help subsidize our low-income spay/neuter program that targets financially challenged pet owners within our community. These funds will help us have a more significant impact by sterilizing more animals and preventing thousands of unwanted litters from entering shelters in the future. We’d also use the funds to promote our adoption program with directed marketing strategies, focusing on increasing cat adoptions.

Q: What makes you a tough contender?
A: We are passionate about reuniting owners with lost pets, placing other pets in new homes, and proactively addressing the challenges of pet overpopulation through spay and neuter programs. The Challenge has provided an additional motivation to rally our community to support our cause.

Washington Humane Society, Washington, D.C.
Q: Describe your organization in three words:
A: Every Animal Matters

Q: What makes you a tough contender?
A: WHS is used to fighting the tough fight! We are the only agency in DC that rescues animals off the streets 24/7/365, prosecutes cruelty cases and is dedicated to educating our community to create a more humane nation’s Capital. We do all this while caring for more than 10,000 animals in our shelters every year and touching the lives of over 30,000 animals yearly.

Q: What’s the most important message—in one sentence—that you’d like to pass on to your community?
A: We never say no to an animal in need, we never close our doors, and we never turn any animal away.

Related links:
2011 Challenge Contestants
Save More Lives/ASPCA $100K Challenge Community

Tags: $100K Challenge, Saving Lives

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