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ASPCA Launches $100,000 National Shelter Challenge
Each year, 5 to 7 million dogs and cats enter the nation’s 5,000 shelters — or are taken in by over 2,000 rescue groups. Some of these animals are lucky: they get adopted.
But 3 to 4 million dogs and cats are euthanized every year — most of them loving animals who would make perfect companions, but lack one crucial thing: someone to adopt them.
The ASPCA is acutely aware of the myriad of problems that many community shelters face, including lack of space, staff and funds needed to house these animals, care for them and pay for their vet costs in order to get them adopted. It also recognizes that to be successful in their goals, these shelters need direct support from the communities in which they operate.
That’s why on April 8, 2010 (yes I’m a little late telling you), the ASPCA launched a new competitive grant aimed at helping shelters save more lives and elicit community involvement.
Save More Lives: ASPCA $100,000 Challenge will award a $100,000 grant to the shelter that saves the most animals’ lives during a three- month period in 2010, compared with the shelter’s same three-month period in 2009. The ASPCA will also award an additional $25,000 to the shelter that does the best job of getting its local community involved.
Bert Troughton, MSW, ASPCA VP of ProLearning, says, “We’re tapping the collective intelligence of shelters nationwide to bring forth the best programs and practices for saving more lives. To be competitive shelters must save at least 300 more lives within a three-month period (YOY) and increase their community’s direct involvement to help homeless animals.” She notes, “Above all, we want to help shelters raise public awareness about animal homelessness and how adopting from a shelter can make all the difference in the world.”
The ASPCA $100,000 Challenge is limited to 50 shelters, and will run during August, Sept, and Oct. Shelters must be non-profit organizations or government-controlled, and they must spay or neuter animals before adoption.
Ed Sayres, ASPCA President and CEO says, “Unique from our other grants that fund specific programs, the $100,000 Challenge is a competition to inspire creative solutions for increasing pet adoptions and improving return-to-owner rates.”
Shelters up for the grant include those from coast to coast, including those in: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. For information on the specific shelters selected in these states, click here.
For more information on the $100,000 Challenge, please visit www.aspcapro.org/challenge. For a media kit chock-full of information on how you can help your favorite shelter, and even more details, click here.
**Some of the info in this post was taken from the “ASPCA Action Spring 2010″ print mailer
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