Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue believes it is their moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned and homeless animals and to place them in loving, permanent homes. They provide spay and neuter services and any necessary medical care. The Organization works diligently to educate the public, especially children, on the importance of pet sterilization and responsible ownership.

A world without homeless pets. We are a no kill shelter, so we have spread our rescue efforts across the country to save the ones that will be euthanized in high kill shelters. Our immediate future plan is to have our low cost clinic open 5 days a week for spay/neuter services (we are only open 1 or 2 days since covid) and expand our shelter by opening a satellite shelter in Massachusetts. There we can house more companion animals and offer sanctuary to those deemed unadoptable due age or health reasons. We are excited to be able to spread our wings and be able to save more lives in the future. We will be renovating the new facility this spring.

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Goal One: Open our spay/neuter clinic 5 days a week to help curb the overpopulation of stray and feral cats and offer low cost spay/neuter services to the public.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: To expand our adoption services by creating a satellite adoption center in Massachusetts. This will expand our reach incredibly.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Three: Restructure and reintroduce our humane education program in schools. Our goal is to create a virtual humane education program that is interactive and relevant to each age group.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Describe an investment in leadership

Before Covid, we would attend leadership development seminars and conferences. Unfortunately they were costly to our organization but now that there are zoom leadership seminars and humane education conferences online, we are able to advance our leadership development in a greater capacity.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Raising Awareness

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

We work closely with our community of animal welfare organizations and national organizations to help animals in need. By networking, we save and find homes for even more companion animals by partnering in transports that arrive weekly, veterinary care, that one organization may not be able to provide, and pooling our financial resources together to assist in large scale rescue operations. We have increased our social media, and marketing by 50% since 2020. Through that effort we have increased awareness of our mission and all the programs within it. Our advocacy efforts are a big part of our mission. We work closely with local and state representatives to strengthen the laws regarding such topics as pet stores/puppy mills, anti-tethering laws, and other animal welfare issues. We work diligently to educate the public, especially children on responsible pet ownership. Our outreach programs at schools and events always provide education, awareness and advocacy to the public.

We have adapted by streamlining our animal adoption process. Through our new online adoption application, volunteer application, and online social sharing, we increased our visibility far beyond our brick and mortar shelter and adoption center. We introduced animals via facetime/zoom to potential adopters from all over the country. We even do zoom training and behavioral meetings now with our dog trainer as well as facetime/zoom veterinary consults if an issue arises. We expanded our dogs and cats profiles beyond our own website and have them on social media and other sites such Petfinder.com. We are now there practically 24/7 for our adopted animals. Now, that we are back open, we still implement these strategies to further our mission.