Category: Animal Protection, Welfare and Services

ACTION PROGRAMS FOR ANIMALS

Las Cruces, NM

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Physical Address:: Las Cruces, NM 88004
EIN:: 27-0234541
Web URL:: www.actionprogramsfo...
Leadership:: Ms. Michel Meunier

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Fiscal Year Starting: Jan 1, 2011
Fiscal Year Ending: Dec 31, 2011

Revenue
Total Revenue	$28,762

Expenses
Total Expenses	$28,408

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ACTION PROGRAMS FOR ANIMALS

Physical Address:: Las Cruces, NM 88004
EIN:: 27-0234541
Web URL:: www.actionprogramsfo...
NTEE Category:: D Animal related; D20 Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs); None; None; None; None
Year Founded:: 2009
Ruling Year:: 2009
How This Organization Is Funded:: In-kind pet food and direct monetary donations - $8,000; Grants for various program efforts - $5,000; Grants for vet care assistance - $10,000

Mission Statement

<p align="left">Our <strong>mission</strong> is to help people and their pets live better lives together.</p>

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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit

Our <strong>vision</strong> is that our programs and services will help transform our community to improve the quality of life for companion animals and greatly reduce the number of abandoned and homeless animals impounded and killed at our municipal shelter.

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Leadership

Ms. Michel Meunier

Term:

Since July 2009

Profile:

<div>This is a volunteer position at this time and is currently filled by APA's president and founder.  APA also has no paid employees.</div>

Leadership Statement:

<div>In 2012, we are launching a Dona Ana Pets Alive! campaign to build a system of foster homes and offsite adption venues in order to start pulling the most at-risk animals out of our municipal shelter--we hope to grow this programming and services into opening an animal welfare facility in our county.</div>

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Program: Pet Food Bank

Budget:: $10,000
Category:: Animal-Related
Population Served:: Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General; Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens; Adults

Program Description:

<div>The APA Pet Food Bank administers pet food and other supplies to low- and no-income pet guardians to help people keep their pets in times of economic stress or need.  We service about 30 families per week and distribute 6,000-8,000 pounds of pet food per month.</div>

Program Long-Term Success:

<div>The program must grow each year to serve more people and animals in need; it will someday become just one of the many progams we offer at our animal welfare facility.</div>

Program Short-Term Success:

<div>The program started in 2009, and it has steadily grown in the pounds we distribute and the number of families we help.</div>

Program Success Monitored by:

<div>Executive Director</div>

Program Success Examples:

<div>At this time, we distribute more than 10,000 pounds a month to about 50 families per week; since 2009, we have distributed more than 241,000 pounds of pet food to more than 800 families in our county.</div>

Program: Vet Care Assistance

Budget:: $15,000
Category:: Animal-Related
Population Served:: Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General; Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens; Homeless

Program Description:

<ol><li>We provide no- and low-cost support to our pet food bank clients for vaccinations and spay/neuter; we provide no- and low-cost vaccination/wellness/microchipping clinics to the homeless population and the general population; we also provide direct vet care support to our pet food bank clients and other no-/low-income people, when funds allow.</li></ol>

Program Long-Term Success:

<div>Our long-term goals are to open an low-cost clinic as part of a larger animal welfare facility.</div>

Program Short-Term Success:

<div> <div>We have helped hundreds of animals in our community with these services since 2010.</div></div>

Program Success Monitored by:

<div>Executive Director</div>

Program Success Examples:

<div>At our first clinic in 2012, we administered 114 rabies and other vaccinations as well as 37 microchips.</div>

Program: Dona Ana Pets Alive! campaign

Budget:: $30,000
Category:: Animal-Related
Population Served:: Adults; Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General; Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens

Program Description:

<div>In 2012, we are launching this campaign to start No Kill programming and services in our community; it is going to start out as a network of foster homes and offsite adoption venues that will help and pull at-risk animals in our only municipal shelter, and it will grow into us having an alternate animal welfare facility in our county.</div>

Program Long-Term Success:

<div>The long-term goal is to open an alternate, private animal welfare facility that will model the successful No Kill programming from other areas of the United States.</div>

Program Short-Term Success:

<div>Start pulling dogs and cats from out shelter by mid-July 2012; start with modest numbers and grow to be able to pull and save at least 50 each month for the first year.</div>

Program Success Monitored by:

<div>Executive Director</div>

Program Success Examples:

<div>The program's success will be shown with the amount of animals we pull and place into new homes vs. their being killed at the municipal shelter.</div>

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