SPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS
Keeping Pets & Families Together
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
To end pet homelessness in Illinois, caused by pet overpopulation. Annually 127,000 cats and dogs are euthanized in shelters throughout our state. Our goal is to end this devastating reality.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Program: Low Cost Spay/Neuter
Our primary focus is to promote spay/neuter as a means to decrease the pet overpopulation and provide wellness care to those in need. We serve over 14,000 pets a year through this program.
Program: Offsite Vaccination Clinics
Spay Illinois visits over 15 locations a month to hold low cost vaccination clinics and promote our spay/neuter services. These clinics reach over 8,000 pets a year which would not otherwise been able to afford these services. It is also our best outreach program to those who need spay/neuter services.
Program: Statewide Referal Program
Spay Illinois provides a toll free hotline to make finding affordable spay/neuter services throughout Illinois as easy as possible. Spay Illinois also maintains an updated website spay/neuter locator for the state of Illinois.
Project Families Forever
This program helps owners keep their pets in their homes by providing free and subsidized vaccinations, micro-chips, spay/neuter, treatment for heartworm, and other needed surgeries and services.
100% Initiative
A spay, neuter, and preventative veterinary care subsidy fund offered to any 501c3 rescue group that agrees to spay or neuter 100% of the animals in their care prior to adoption.
Where we work
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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?
To decrease pet overpopulation by providing spay/neuter, wellness, and education to the public. To increase the number of pets that stay in their home, by providing these services to help decrease owner surrenders to shelters.
No pet owner should be unable to obtain basic veterinary care due to their financial circumstance. Creating opportunities for owners to obtain these services through outreach and education.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We employ a variety of comprehensive programs aimed at addressing pet overpopulation. First and foremost, by making spay and neuter care affordable and accessible for Illinois' most vulnerable pets, we are combating pet overpopulation directly. By making affordable preventative veterinary care available, we keep pets healthy and in their loving homes, rather than in shelters. We also work directly with rescue groups in shelters to perform spay and neuter prior to adoption to ensure higher spay/neuter compliance in the areas we serve.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Spay Illinois began providing our community with affordable spay, neuter, and other veterinary care in 2009. Since our inception we have cared for over 110,000 pets and families, including over 1,300 feral/community cats, and continue to achieve more. Annually, our organization has the capacity to perform 6,500 spays and neuters and is well practiced, staffed, and equipped to achieve our goals.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since our inception in 2009, we have provided spay, neuter and other veterinary care to over 110,000 pets and families and continue to achieve more, year after year. We've established and bolstered new programs, including our 100% Initiative to assist other 501c3 shelters in providing quality care to their animals on limited resources, Project Families Forever which keeps pets healthy and in their loving homes for life. Annually, we perform 5,500 surgeries and provide wellness care to over 18,000 pets. In the coming year, we intend to open a second stationary facility east of our current location. This facility will be four times the size of our current space and will provide double the number of spay/neuter surgeries as well as full service veterinary care.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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SPAY ILLINOIS PET WELL CLINICS
Board of directorsas of 02/07/2024
Kandra Witkowski
Pet Butler, Inc.
Term: 2022 -
Kathi Daniels
SPAY ILLINOIS
Jen DeCarlo
J DeCarlo Salon and Spa, Owner
Gail Johnson
David Rekart
NVA Compassion-First, Implementation Specialist
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 ? Not applicable -
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? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- 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.