ANIMAL WELFARE FRIENDS
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Provide animal control and adoption services so animals have a safe and loving environment.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Building Partnerships
Work on building working relationships with other rescues and shelters in order to help reduce euthanization rates and overcrowding in other agencies.
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.
Number of animal clinics/shelters improved as a direct result of the nonprofit's efforts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Building Partnerships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We will be looking for the euthanization rate to reduce for shelters that we form coalitions with.
Number of animal adoptions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Building Partnerships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number of pets adopted out should increase as we form more coalitions with shelters to reduce euthanization in the US.
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. Prevent any adoptable animals from being euthanized in Jones County, IA.
2. Educating the public on Animal Welfare
3. Have an impact on reducing the number of stray cats through TNR and education.
4. Provide animal control to Jones County
5. Reduce the number of pets euthanized throughout Eastern Iowa and the US by creating coalitions with other rescues and shelters
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. We adopt, foster, board, or transfer all stray dogs not reclaimed in Jones County, IA.
2. We have open hours and have a lot of walk in traffic. This provides us the opportunity to educate people. We also have multiple events that we hold to bring the public in, such as microchipping and low-cost vaccination clinics. Every time we have an opportunity to have face to face with people is an opportunity for education. We also utilize Facebook to inform people of pet food recalls, setting up an emergency plan for your pets, etc.
3. We are focusing on grant writing for spay/neuter funding, and we now have a location in which to hold cats a few days before and after surgery.
4. AWF has contracts with all local local authorities in Jones County and provides animal control through these contracts.
5. We review lists of pets that are up for euthanization due to overcrowding at other shelters throughout the US. We work with six agencies now which are located in Iowa, Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Illinois but plan on expanding our coalitions greatly.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We now have the first animal shelter in Jones County, IA which was opened in October 2016.
We hold low-cost microchipping and vacination clinics.
We have been awarded a couple of grants.
We have a volunteer animal control officers.
We have a small transport vehicle and small isolation area. These are currently the limiting factors are the number of animals we may rescue from other agencies.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We opened the first shelter in Jones County in October 2016.
We have worked with a local veterinarian to provide low-cost vaccination clinics and simultaneously provided microchipping and education.
We are building coalitions with other shelters to reduce the number of dogs euthanized in the US.
We have helped find homes for animals in multiple local animal hoarding situations.
We need to work on the overpopulation of cats in the county through the use of education and low cost spay/neuter.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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ANIMAL WELFARE FRIENDS
Board of directorsas of 02/04/2024
Mike Batman
Candy Roberg
Mike Batman
Lisa Wigington
Cindy Bagge
Jon Avenarius
Sherri Evans
Jackie White
Mary Curtis
Paxtyn Keleher
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? Yes -
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? Yes -
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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Leadership
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