COLVILLE VALLEY ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Help Us ... Help Them
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We provide shelter and care to cats and dogs in need, and help overstretched caregivers who can no longer cope with pet care for various reasons.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Sheltering homeless and surrendered cats and dogs
Most of our budget goes to maintaining our facilities and staffing to house and provide medical care and adoption opportunities for local cats and dogs that have nowhere else to go.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals provided with long term care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Sheltering homeless and surrendered cats and dogs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
Animals that have a non painful health issues are hard to find fur-ever homes for. In these cases we find LTC homes for them. The animal stays under our financial custody, yet get to be in a home.
Number of law enforcement agencies assisted in animal cruelty cases
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
We are called in on rare occasions to assist the Sheriffs department on transporting and then housing animals either in abusive situations or domestic disputes.
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?
Our vision is to be part of a network of eastern Washington communities where:
Local government provides leadership and funding for humane society services
Every child is educated about the humane treatment of animals and the importance of spaying and neutering pets
All residents look out for the well-being of all domestic animals as a matter of course
Abuse and neglect of animals is rare
Homeless and feral cats and dogs are rare
Through strategic capacity building, we aim to increase our services to provide much more outreach and education and empower local residents to solve various situations. The long-term goal is to reduce the need for our services and reduce overall animal suffering in local communities. Increased capacity is also needed so we can increase spay/neuter and provide a much greater level of community education about the humane treatment of animals and the benefits to the community of proactive animal welfare.
We also need to maintain at least our current level of direct sheltering and adoption service so we can continue to respond to the many urgent situations that arise as elders go into care with no one else to take their pets; animals are found abandoned or injured, or subjected to hoarding and other emergency situations; and cat colonies must be helped with spay/neuter and medical care to help not only suffering, malnourished animals, but also the people involved who cannot cope. This work prevents even worse cat overpopulation in the future.
An important goal is raising funds to complete our new dog building. In the past dogs have been housed in small buildings and outdoor kennels that have aged and are no longer adequate to the task. We have sheltered only about a third of the dogs in 2017 as in previous years.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Stevens County has never, to our knowledge, had a position dedicated to raising awareness about the humane treatment of animals and funds for animal welfare services. CVAS was founded in 2002 due to the lack of animal welfare services in the area and the many homeless animals roaming at large and in need of care. Since that time most of the heavy lifting has been done by volunteers, many of whom are long-term and burning out. While we have helped many thousands of animals and residents, the need for animal welfare services is greater than ever. There is still too low a rate of spay/neuter, inadequate animal protection laws, and too many people who respond to a stray animal by shooting at it.
Our current priority is raising funds to pay for two years of salary for an executive director and an outreach specialist to help raise our profile in the community and develop long-term sustainable funding and initiatives that will allow us to increase our level of services.
By revitalizing our volunteer program and increasing funding for outreach and education, we can bring more hands to the various tasks of classroom visits, dog shelter and care, TNR, fundraising, phone support for community members, and general shelter operations and facilities upkeep.
The strategy for raising our profile and support includes developing concise, compelling outreach materials including updated brochures and regularly compiled stats that can be furnished to media, community groups, and grantors. These “CVAS snapshot" reports will show how many cats and dogs are surrendered and rescued each month and from which locations (rural county; city residential area or commercial district), how many spay/neuter surgeries were facilitated, number of low-cost vaccinations provided, adoptions, and other information about CVAS services to local communities.
Our target for the next year is to grow our volunteer base by 20 regular volunteers. CVAS has been sheltering homeless animals and providing affordable basic medical care for cats and dogs from all around the tri-county area (and occasionally from Idaho) for almost 15 years, through the generosity of a dedicated group of volunteers. The shelter's ability to turn a solid percentage of these first contacts into regular volunteers has been limited by the lack of an outreach specialist tasked with ensuring a positive volunteer experience.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
CVAS has an active working board that has been revitalized with three new members in the past year. Board experience includes successful grantwriting, developing successful fundraising events, and a wealth of experience caring for animals. Above all, everyone involved with CVAS is dedicated to helping animals in need and is highly motivated to keep the shelter not only operating, but achieving more in the community. Among the staff, board, and volunteers are people donating hundreds of hours every month to developing a better web site, running fundraisers, grantseeking, and doing bookkeeping, facilities maintenance, animal care, transports, TNR, keeping up Facebook, and more.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
CVAS's capacity-building project kicked off in earnest in June of 2016 with a workshop led by shelter fundraising expert Tim Crum. Since then CVAS has established a regular schedule of e-newsletters and appeals to a growing subscriber list that currently numbers almost 800. We have also joined forces with a local furniture store that set up a section for art and jewelry sales that donates proceeds to CVAS.
A new web site is nearing completion and will be launched this summer.
We received a $15,000 grant for our first dedicated position for outreach and development and are seeking a part-time person to start.
However, we need to raise significantly more money for salaries in order to allow the new positions time to develop a larger volunteer base and sustainable fundraising programs. More funds are also needed to upgrade aging facilities so we can properly serve the community, particularly dogs, which each require more space than cats.
CVAS has been a fixture in the community for 15 years. We are confident that with a new emphasis on strategic growth and adapting to the new world we are living in, and with adequate initial funding to develop our ideas, education and sustainability programs, we will succeed in making CVAS a more effective force for positive change in northeast Washington state.
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COLVILLE VALLEY ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Board of directorsas of 03/09/2023
Mrs. Jennifer Pelton
Mr. Zac West
Jenny A. Pelton
President
Lance L. Pelton
Technical
Matthew Zac West
Vice President
Janet West
Treasurer/Secretary
Suzanne Roebke
Community Outreach
Heather Scott
Social Media
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
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