Save A Dog & Kids rescues several hundred or more unwanted dogs per
year and finds volunteer foster homes
to care for them. We organize training classes so kids can learn to care for,
train and perform with pups as well as training courses for each dog placed.
We maintain four national, state-wide
and local web sites with up-to-date descriptions and pictures
of adoptable
dogs, descriptions of our program
and current affairs. We prepare weekly
public service announcements and advertisements for upcoming adoptions,
solicit volunteers, sponsors and teen participants. In addition, we provide
transportation for dogs from shelters,
to Salt Lake city Veterinary
Clinics,
foster homes, training courses and
weekly adoptions, while
maintaining
all accounts payable, bookkeeping,
and tax filings all the while coordinating public relations, collaborative efforts
with local communities, law enforcement, animal control, as well as other
rescue organizations. Plus, we coordinate
incoming and outgoing
calls for potential homes, advise and refer pet owners while providing
care 24/7 for these helpless animals, all with only the efforts of
the founder of the organization, a handful
of foster homes and volunteers at
adoptions on Saturdays.
We need a lot more help including:
Professionals in Animal Veterinary
Care, Training and Placement; Professionals in Fundraising, Management, Public
Relations, Advertising, Accounting, Computer Web Design, Data Entry and Programming, Social Workers,
Teachers and gifted adults with kids
and
animals. And that's just for starters!
Land, construction materials, and equipment are needed for the ranch to house, care for countless numbers of animals
while teaching our kids the
intrinsic value of loving and caring for
them. And of
course, our most needed resource for these plans and efforts is funding
that can make it all possible.
We want to see programs that educate
the public through media, publication
of educational materials, personal
appearances in schools, local events
and specially designed performances
by the
teens and their trained dogs.
These programs need to start at the
local
level and we hope to see them
grow to a national level to educate all
who are willing to learn the value, fun
and joy of working with, loving
and
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There are plans for a television
program hosted by kids that takes the audience
to all the amazing activities
dogs contribute to our society like service
to our disabled, elderly, sick and
society as a
whole. We will visit exciting competitions, explore entertaining talents and
proper ways to raise and train dogs. There are many astonishing
things to
find out about the contributions dogs make to our world and we
want to
explore them all.
Save A Dog & Kids seeks out and encourages
collaboration with other organizations and programs involved
in rescue,
placement, training, service, therapy, education and other benevolent involvements
with dogs. We hope that
all branches of education, medicine,
law
enforcement, government and so many other arenas in our society
will realize the benefits of valuing, nurturing and discovering the abilities
of these amazing creatures and find
ways of utilizing the gifts they
contribute to our lives. We wish them to join the effort to teach
our kids to value, care
for and enjoy rather than senselessly
and cruelly discard them like garbage.
Current expenses for the program
that exceed the
donations contributed solely by the adoptive families of the
dogs are below the federal nonprofit
limit for filing of $25,000 a year. But
the program is growing so rapidly that
fundraising is desperately needed. We wish to thank all the professionals in veterinary medicine,
animal control,
shelter administration, media owners, journalists, foster homes and trainers
for all
they donate to our program.
We hope this prospectus will enlist
the involvement of many people in
our communities from businesses, professionals, volunteers and
anyone
who values the virtues of compassion
and responsibility toward our children
and animals. We live in uncertain times,
but if we can help our children become
caring and confident individuals by
helping the helpless and unwanted
animals, then we have done something
very worthwhile. We can always count
on certain and unconditional love from
God's innocent creatures. Let's work
together to protect not only the animals
but our kids as well.
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