Hi
Fosters and Volunteers!
I hope you had a safe
and happy holiday!
As
2013 wrapped up and 2014 starts, we’re doing the usual stuff- reflecting,
planning, launching, brainstorming, you get the picture! We really had a
fabulous year of saving animals: a record 106 kittens were adopted out
of our site at Woodlands in Marin. This was part of over 220 dogs
and 450 cats adopted to forever families in 2013- great work, everyone!
Approximately fifty families took homeless dogs into their homes and sixty
families fostered cats/kittens! About 200 people volunteered (some of
you volunteered AND fostered) and our humane education program reached about 85
kids. I don’t know about you, but I’m SUPER proud of this!
At this
point in the year, I’d like to check in with you on your status,
especially about fostering: are you still interested in fostering?
Interested in fostering for the first time? Even if you think we know you,
please go ahead and send me a short email just reminding us, and include things
like how often you like to foster, what you like to foster, etc! Don’t be shy-
these details help. We’re especially looking for fosters who might be willing
to take large breed adult dogs, puppies, dogs who can only handle adult only or
single animal foster families, fosters who will take whatever, fosters with
some training experience, fosters who are willing to take on longer fosters
(cats and dogs!) and, well- if that doesn’t cover it, I don’t know what does!
So when you send me that email, if you have any of these special skills or
situations, also include that- the information really helps us in our ability
to rescue! (And don’t be offended if I don’t write back right away- I’m out of
town until Tuesday, but I will get back to you!!)
I
don’t have a ton of volunteer updates to share right now but there are a
few here on the blog, and as always, if there are specific
things you’re interested in, contact me- we’ve got plenty of things going (and
coming up!).
Another
cool thing to think about for the New Year is checking in to see if your
employer offers “volunteer grants.” As part of many corporate
responsibility programs, companies will match volunteer hours with financial
donations. This is a great reason to track your hours! (Fosters- we’ll
calculate your hours for you.) Volunteers, you can track your hours here, and if
you need a new log in, just let me know. Also, if you didn’t track your hours
last year, don’t worry, I’ve been doing it for you (mostly). Thanks to Clarissa
and Carla, we’ve generated a list of a lot of companies that do this-
check to see if yours is on there! If it’s not, you might still ask your office
to see if they participate in a program like this.
