Stover Animal Rescue Inc

Our first goal is to acquire and keep 10 additional local volunteers this next year.

Our second goal is to receive at least $15,000 more this year in funding.

Our third goal is to continue to improve our outreach programs to our local community to help keep pets at home when possible - reducing the burden on rescues.

Our fourth goal is to continue to reduce our rescue costs in every reasonable way we can.

Goal one - volunteers: We have implemented regular staff meetings to improve communication and deal with perceived problems promptly. We are working to improve policies and procedures to help with training and preventing problems; and looking for better ways to express our gratitude for the work that is being accomplished. We are also partnering with our local school to promote volunteerism, and increasing our online presence with volunteer resources like VolunteerMatch, Benevity, GreaterGood, etc. Current issues with Covid-19 are hoped to be temporary and improving soon.

Goal two - funding: We are continuing to thank and report outcomes to our current donating groups, and looking for available grants and other funding sources. We are partnering with other advocacy groups to share grant-writing expertise and networking contacts.

Goals three and four - improving outreach services and reducing costs: We are partnering with local veterinarians to offer low cost spay and neuter clinics, offering microchip clinics to ensure a lost pet returns home (thus keeping them out of the shelter), and promoting TNR (trap/neuter/return) for stray and feral cats to control the pet population (thus keeping the colonies healthier and out of the shelter). We are also price checking all our expenses again and looking for ways to combine therapies and trade volunteer hours for training and other services when possible.

We have a committed and talented group of board members this year; and several great volunteers we hope to keep and engage in promoting the work to good friends. We are developing ways to continue to communicate safely within the constraints of the nationwide quarantines and are looking for ways to do smaller events for fundraisers to be safer in the continuing covid-cautious environment.

Our local schools are very supportive of promoting volunteerism, although some of our efforts in that regard have had to be postponed until the fall school year due to closures. We are enlisting the aid of a variety of other local volunteer groups (quilter/crafters, gardeners, church groups, etc.) to partner with us in ways that are doable for them.

We are developing a good track record with those who have funded us in the past in showing positive outcomes and reliable accounting for the methods we use to manage expenditures; and we are committed to the community and assisting animals and their families who are in need as best we can.

We have resources in place for the fall school year to promote volunteer efforts with students; and we have some students actively recruiting for us as well.

We are streamlining our paper processes to provide more accurate statistics for outcomes.

We have partnered with other rescues and veterinarians to provide low-cost spay/neuter/rabies for those who had been scheduled for the spring TNRs we couldn't hold. This is still more expensive than the TNR clinics, but we hope to continue this through the quarantine period; and we have one TNR clinic planned this spring.

We continue to price compare and shop in bulk for supplies and food and have had several distributions of food from suppliers making these items more available locally - especially now while distribution is difficult.

We are grateful to have received over $20,000 this last year from a new animal advocate supporter for repairs and improvements to our current building and kennels; and have been given 68 acres for a long-term project of developing an animal sanctuary.

We use social media sites and young virtual volunteers to keep our friends and partners up-to-date on needs and successes.