Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We have had a lowered adoption rate in the past year. The decreased rate we feel is a compounding of many issues that need addressing. We have a complicated application that contains barriers to adoption, COVID-19 restrictions barring easy access and availability of appointments, interview styles that put barriers up and decrease interactions and may appear adversarial to the adoption process, lack of trained adoption counselors, and restrictive office hours. There are steps we can take to improve the adoption rate.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Dexter's Healing Hearts
Provide education to the public regarding heartworm disease, it's prevention, and treatment methods using information and guidelines available from the American Heartworm Society. Help fund testing for heartworm disease in animals housed in local shelters. Help fund preventative heartworm medication for dogs who test negative for heartworm. Help fund treatment for heartworm disease housed in local animal shelters.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of animals rehomed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We did not have tracking software until April 2020. Numbers for 2018, 2019, and 1st quarter 2020 are estimated based on documents
Number of animals rescued
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This number includes animals brought to us as strays, owner surrenders, born in care, and pulled from animal shelter. Data for 2018, 2019, and 1st quarter 2020 are estimates based on documents.
Average number of days of shelter stay for animals
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
Statistics are not available for 2018 and 2019. We did not have our own tracking software until April 2020. We were grouped in with a local municipal shelter and any numbers would not be accurate.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1) Increase the adoption rate by 25%.
2) Reduce time in custody to 30 days or less.
3) Decrease return rate that is due to poor matching of animal to adoptive person's lifestyle and expectations.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. Reconfigure the application questions and remove questions that might be barriers to application acceptance.
2). Educate adoption counselors on using open-ended questions that permit the applicant to expand on their application responses.
3) Use more social media outlets to get pets noticed and track those responses.
4). Extend the hours of operation to make it more convenient for applicants to make appointments for meetings/adoptions.
5). Educate fosters on early and frequent marketing of their fostered animals.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Partners-4-Paws has a board that is genuinely committed to the goals we've outlined. Each has several years experience volunteering in shelters and working for or with other non profit agencies in the past. Each member brings a set of skills to the organization that helps bring about these methods we will use to meet the goals we've outlined.
Partners-4-Paws has gathered a following of volunteers who are willing and able to help get the word out and to work with various businesses in the area as well as other non profits who share a passion for animals.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Partners-4-Paws has only been in existence since April 29,2019, but to date has raised nearly $10,000.
Assisted 9 animals with testing, prevention, or treatment. These animals were rescued by individuals and we assisted with costs of testing, preventatives and treatment as needed. For 7 of these animals we also provided vaccinations, spay/neuter, and microchip insertion. Six of these animals have been adopted into loving homes. One is in foster care currently undergoing heartworm treatment.
Partners-4-Paws has also purchased the products needed for the shelter we are sponsoring, and now each dog is being tested, placed on preventatives, and if needed receiving treatment.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Partners-4-Paws
Board of directorsas of 10/14/2021
Mrs Sandra Sagerian
Partners-4-Paws
Term: 2018 - 2022
Ms. Cookie Shaneyfelt
Partners-4-Paws
Term: 2019 - 2022
Tara Cantieri
Partners-4-Paws
Kari Ramirez
Partners-4-Paws
Lisa Windsor
Self employed, attorney
Board leadership practices
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Board composition
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Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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