HUMANE SOCIETY OF BLUE RIDGE

Community Spay/Neuter Program: We continue to offer our Spay/Neuter Incentive program to the local community. Once the low-income/low-cost vet clinic opens in early 2023, we will approve clients to use the clinic based upon financial need.

Improving Turn-rate: In 2022, our average turn-rate was 40 days (50 days for cats, 30 days for dogs), which has been improving YoY. Our goal was to get to 30 days turn or less. In 2021, we ramped up our Transport Program by hiring a dedicated Transport Coordinator to locate potential out-of-area rescues that we might transport to and run monthly transports (increasing the number of transports over time). In 2021 we transported 13 animals and in 2022 we transported 182 animals. In addition, we amended our protocol for dog intake from 10 days to 24 hours for a surrender with up to date vet records, 3 days for a surrender without up to date vet records, and 5 days for strays (providing that they present well at the end of these periods). That will allow us to move animals more quickly into our General Population and shorten the length of stay in the shelter.

Basic Veterinary Care: We were awarded a large capital grant in December, 2021 which will allow us to build a low-cost vet clinic to provide basic vet services as well as spay/neuter surgeries. The clinic will serve members of our community that can demonstrate financial need. We plan to open early 2023.

Microchipping: We plan to hold quarterly free microchipping clinics in order to help alleviate the number of lost animals that find their way into Animal Control or local shelters by helping to locate their owners.

TNR: We continue to conduct our TNR program to alleviate the feral cat population in the area.

Reviewing our protocols for intake will make a huge difference in our shelter turn rate, along with hiring a dedicated Transport Coordinator.

By changing my role from grant writer to Executive Director - Development allowed me to look at all our methods of fundraising and focus on long term strategies for Community Outreach.

Our new Adoption Center Manager, Brandy Arreaga, who started in the role January 31, 2022 has made an amazing positive impact to the Adoption Center and the programs that we offer to the community.

We have closely tracked our KPI's YoY to be sure that we are trending in the right direction. We have recently hired some new talent that will bring new skills to implement and execute more rapidly on our goals.

Intake has increased YoY dramatically and our turn-rate has improved as well. We have seen a decrease in the use of the Community Spay/Neuter Program once the fees were increased to $60 cats/$100 dogs. We need to remain in lock step with the fees that our partner, Logan's Run Rescue is offering for the surgeries to be performed by Tri-State Spay/Neuter Clinic located in Murphy, NC. Our TNR program continues to operate and keep the feral cat population in Fannin County in check.

In 2022, we ramped up our Foster Program and saw a significant increase in animals in foster. As a result of the increase from 181 to 862 in intake YoY, our Operating expenses have sky rocketed as well.