Kansas City Pet Project

Creating a Better Community for Pets and People

aka KC Pet Project   |   Kansas City, MO   |  www.kcpetproject.org

Mission

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Ruling year info

2012

President/CEO & Chief Lifesaving Officer

Teresa Johnson

Main address

7077 Elmwood Avenue

Kansas City, MO 64132 USA

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EIN

45-3067615

NTEE code info

Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs) (D20)

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

KC Pet Project provides animal sheltering services on behalf of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and provides lifesaving services to homeless, abandoned, and injured pets in order to maintain a No Kill community.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Pet Adoptions

KC Pet Project cares for approximately 10,000 pets per year. Therefore, we rely heavily on adoptions to support our lifesaving mission. All three KC Pet Project locations are open 7 days a week for adoptions.  We also partner with nine Petco stores in the metro area for cat adoptions. If a pet comes to the shelter as a stray, we hold them for a 5-day period to give an owner a chance to reclaim them. Once that period is up, they are put up for adoption or eligible for foster or rescue. We work very hard to reunite stray pets back with their owners and have a great rescue network all over the country to transfer pets from our program to their programs.

Population(s) Served
Families
Adults

The mission of the Volunteer Program at the Kansas City Pet Project is to provide a fulfilling experience to the volunteer and provide necessary assistance where needed at KCPP. Volunteers are one of our most valuable resources, and with your commitment and assistance we will work together to make the organization successful in promoting animal welfare, providing public education on the proper care and treatment of animals and giving shelter animals some much needed love and attention. If you are interested in volunteering at the shelter you must fit the below requirements:At least 16 years old or older or supervised by supervisor/guardianHave a working email accountMust be able to purchase a leash and volunteer attire and wear every time that you volunteer Must have interest in helping animals become successful petsMature and respectful attitude is required while at shelter at all timesSupport the Kansas City Pet Project mission

Population(s) Served
Adults

Our Foster Care Program asks community members to open their doors to our animals who need some TLC outside of the shelter. Fostering is one of the most important ways you can help the animals of Kansas City Pet Project. By providing our temporary residents shelter for just a small amount of time helps save lives. Foster parents must be at least 18 years of age Foster parents must fill out a Foster Application and be approved Foster parents must agree and sign our Foster Care Contract Foster parents must be interested in and willing to help find a forever home for their foster pet. Foster parents must participate in off site adoption events and networking to find potential adopters. You can foster dogs, cats, litters of puppies and kittens, small mammals, etc. through our foster program.

Population(s) Served
Adults

One of our most progressive and lifesaving programs here at our shelter has been our Canine Playgroup Program run by our Training & Behavior Department. We are one of a growing number of shelters across the country that has implemented formal playgroups for dogs. We take into consideration the physical, emotional and social skills of shelter dogs to help increase their adoptability. We rotate as many as 100 dogs into playgroups every day, with each dog receiving approximately thirty minutes of play time, burning off mental and physical energy. That stress relief leads to safer, more positive dog-human interactions and allows dogs to interact and bond with each other.

Population(s) Served
Adults

Where we work

Awards

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of animal adoptions

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Pet Adoptions

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of animals returned to their owner

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Our main goal is to save lives in our community. We are the only open-admission shelter and the only facility required to care for the pets of Kansas City, MO. We are a safety-net for those animals and we are keenly focused on the welfare of pets in our community. We are proud to be a No Kill shelter saving the lives of over 10,000 animals each year.

We save lives in a number of ways. We're proud to have progressive programs in place that help us accomplish our goals even in a nearly 50 year old facility, and at the end of 2019, we will be moving into our new shelter building at the Kansas City Campus for Animal Care in Swope Park where we will expand our lifesaving operations and broaden our educational commitment to the Kansas City community.

We save lives through adoptions, volunteer support, fostering pets, and through community support. We have a number of ways that our community can get involved with our shelter and we now have 13 locations to adopt pets in the metro area.

We are saving more lives than ever before and we've achieved the highest No Kill rate in the history of the Kansas City, MO animal shelter (95.7%). But the fact that we still have more animals coming to our shelter than ever before means we still have a lot of work to do. We are currently in the process of building a new animal shelter for Kansas City that will be a state-of-the-art facility. We'll focus a lot on education and humane treatments of pets as well as return-to-owner in the field services, so that we can make an effort to keep pets out of the shelter and in homes.

Financials

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Operations

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Kansas City Pet Project

Board of directors
as of 02/22/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Ms. Lisa Epps

Creative Planning

Term: 2020 - 2021

Cindy Risen

Fairway Animal Hospital

Sarah Strnad

Outpost Worldwide

Cynthia Smith

Community Volunteer

Jodde Olsen Lanning

Law Offices of Payne & Jones Chartered

Lisa Epps

Creative Planning

Shaun Byrd

Heartland Coca-Cola

Brenda Pozek

Cerner

Amy Anderson

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Anna Knutson

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Cathy Doyal

Community Volunteer

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 4/30/2021
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