A PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC

Our long-term goal is to end animal euthanasia in municipal shelters. Through rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming Akitas and other large breed dogs from these shelters we are slowly reaching our goal. Over the next three to five years our goal is to increase the number of dogs saved by 25% year over year; doubling the number of dogs saved every four years. As we meet these benchmarks, we hope that demand for our services decreases.

Our primary strategy in the near-term is to increase our funding. Throughout our existence we have primarily relied on individual contributions to fund our programs. This model has made our programs sustainable, but to achieve our goals we must increase our efforts. This year we are cultivating partnerships with private foundations to increase our funding and give us the finances needed to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome more dogs than we have in the past. We are not interested in just maintaining the status quo.

Our founder and President has over twenty years experience successfully owning and managing small businesses. She understands the importance of low expenses. Not having paid staff, frees up finances to be spent directly on the dogs. Our organization has well-established adoption partnerships with 29 shelters, which allows us to rescue dogs without added expenses. We also have a countless number of volunteers all across California alerting us when dogs inline with our mission enter shelters.

So far we have rescued, rehabilitated, and rehomed over 1200 dogs. Greater success for our organization is held back by lack of funding and lack of volunteers. This year we are making a concerted effort to cultivate funding from private foundations. We are discussing strategies to increase our volunteer base. Many champion our cause with their voices, but we need more practical things; like people to work at our Akita Ranch and people to transport dogs from shelters.