Humane Fort Wayne
We’re for people. We’re for pets. We’re for Love, Unleashed.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our primary goal is to reduce the incidence of euthanasia of healthy and adoptable animals. We aim to be a refuge for homeless pets in our region and across the country as well as a resource to pet owners who need assistance caring for their animals. At the Allen County SPCA, we serve pets and the people who love them.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Animal Shelter
Located at the Hanna Street building.
The HFW intakes over 2500 animals per year, a significant increase from past figures. Each animal is assessed for health and aggression, vaccinated, spayed or neutered, microchipped, fed and well-cared for as they are prepared for adoption.
Pet Promises
Located at the Hanna Street building.
The outreach program targets pet owners living in low income areas that coincide with high rates of intake at the shelters.
By going door to door and offering educational materials, food, collars and leashes at no cost and spay/neuter/vaccinations and microchips at highly subsidized prices, we have been able to directly target the most at risk pets and provide assistance on the spot. This program is funded by a public donations and grants
Community Cats
Located at the Hanna Street building
Community Cats is a feral cat trap/neuter/release (TNR) program that identifies large "colonies" of free roaming cats and systematically sterilizes, vaccinates and microchips the cats, then releases them back to where they came from. The program is designed to reduce and eventually eliminate feral cats in our area through attrition instead of euthanasia. Parts of this program are partially underwritten by Petco Foundation, but much financial assistance is still needed for this program to have full impact.
Wellness Clinic
Located at the Maycrest Drive building
Providing basic veterinary care for financially challenged pet owners with otherwise healthy pets. Services include vaccines, heartworm and FeLk testing, blood work, preventative dentistry, minor wound care, treatment of ear, skin or upper respiratory infections, and minor soft tissue surgery.
Spay Neuter
Located in the Maycrest Drive building.
Where we work
Awards
Bright Ideas Award 2018
Michigan Humane Society
Affiliations & memberships
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 2013
Humane Society of the United States 2013
Society of Animal Welfare Administrators 2013
Great Lakes Animal Welfare Assoc. 2017
External reviews

Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals with freedom from hunger and thirst
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals with freedom from discomfort
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals with freedom from pain
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals with freedom to express normal behavior
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals with freedom from fear and distress
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animal clinics/shelters improved as a direct result of the nonprofit's efforts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We intake animals from local shelters as well as those in our region and far beyond by participating as a destination shelter for several national animal welfare organizations.
Number of animals euthanized
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of animals rescued
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animal adoptions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals vaccinated
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of animals receiving subsidized or free spay/neuter services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Pet Promises
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals surrendered by their owner
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Number of animals returned to their owner
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of animals spayed and neutered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of sheltered animals
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Average number of days of shelter stay for animals
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Decreasing
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We want to save as many adoptable animals' lives as possible.
1) Euthanasia of healthy animals has reached a crisis point in our country. We are tireless in our efforts to intake animals from crowded, high-risk shelters and prepare them for adoption.
2)To make an impact on the number of animals entering such shelters, and to reduce overpopulation, we sterilize r every animal.
3)To encourage a healthy start and reduce the spread of disease, we fully vaccinate the pets in our care.
4) We enrich the experience of the animals in our program by offering a holistic approach to their emotional well being during their stay. In the end, our adopters will have the opportunity to bring home a healthy and happy pet.
5)We aim to educate the community about the option to adopt, rather than purchase, family pets.
6) We operate programs that provide services to pets living in poverty to ensure that their needs are met, too. The goal is to keep pets in their homes and out of shelters.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We rely upon the expertise of other animal welfare professionals. We attend conferences, read timely materials, utilize the services of nationally-renown veterinarians, scour the latest research on animal welfare and stay abreast of the latest issues impacting our industry.
We utilize local media to spread awareness of our program and appear on television and radio to draw attention to our cause. We also partner with local businesses. They lend their financial support as well as offer us the opportunity to speak and educate about our programming.
We partner with local pet stores to offer off-site adoptions each and every week. This allows our animals to be seen and visited-with outside the shelter setting. It also offers a reciprocal relationship with these stores.
Finally, we collaborate with other animal welfare organizations and funders to ensure best practices are in place and that ALL animals, adoptable or owned, receive proper care and the chance at a better life.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We follow the Humane Society of the United States guidelines for shelter population. Because we utilize cat colonies as well as cage-banks and off-site feline adoption, we can house upwards of 70 felines. We can shelter approximately 30 dogs, depending on their size, at any given time. In total, approximately 100 animals are in various stages of the shelter adoption program.
To do so, we employ a professional staff with significant experience in animal husbandry. We are governed by a board committed at every level to our cause, and we receive national and local grant funding on a regular basis. Additionally, we are a member-based organization with 2,500 current members and over 20,000 followers on social media. These supporters ensure our capability to meet our goals annually.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
While our adoption numbers speak for themselves, we strive to achieve greater results than we did in any given month from the prior year. For example, we adopted 63 animals in September of 2012 and 109 in September of 2013. Each month, our goal is to do better than we did the year before. In 2015-2016, we send home an average of 200 pets per month with a goal of 2,500 adoptions per year. In 2016, we sent home 2,660 animals for an average of 222 pets per month.
Additionally, we serve as a real resource for area residents struggling to keep animals in the home instead of surrendering them to shelters. To do so, we think strategically about utilizing our limited resources to better help the community at large. In 2015 we launched a full-scale program to reach out to pet owners living in the underserved community adjacent to our shelter. With a one-year grant, we were able to sterilize more than 500 pets, vaccinate 750 animals and provide 91,520 lbs. of free food to pets in need.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
We serve the entire NE Indiana Region including Allen and surrounding counties with our programs. We also target the most at risk zip codes in Allen County for services including the Pet food pantry, quarterly animal vaccine clinic and in home services for pets.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Case management notes, Suggestion box/email, conversations and phone calls with clients,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
Our staff, Our board,
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How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
It has made them better customers and more loyal supporters. They know that they are valued by our organization and staff.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback,
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Humane Fort Wayne
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
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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 ? Yes -
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? Yes -
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? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
Disability
Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.