PITTSBURGH AVIATION ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM
from danger to safety
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We would like to be able to hire someone to help with fundraising, we do an unbelievable job in saving animals on the resources available. Aviation is very expensive, we would like to be able to say yes to everyone who asks for help. We do not charge for any of our services and don't ever want to. Many of the shelters we deal with have limited resources and it's a goal of ours to be able to help them in some way. Spay neuter, vaccines, and other initiatives to help the animals and people in some of the regions we work with that have so little is something we would love to be able to do. When we travel to rural Kentucky, or rural Tennessee or pick one from the south and see how some of the animals are living, or how much accidental breeding happens and dogs end up on the side of the roads. We would really like to have a "give back" program and help these shelters and the educational programs or lack thereof that they have or need.
Our programs
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Transportation of At-Risk Animals
We rescue animals who are in overcrowded, underfunded shelters, animals who are in areas of natural disasters and animals who are victims of animal cruelty. We then take those animals to locations where they have a chance at a new life.
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Goals & Strategy
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
To be able to bring any animal from danger to safety. There are parts of the country where there are still so many animals in danger that we just don't have the resources to get to them. Now that we have a shortage of dogs in the Northeast, we need to get to the healthy dogs who are being euthanized in the southwest and Texas. Pets play such an important role in the health and well being of people, and we realize this every time we rescue an animal. Some of the places the animals end up are so amazing, as therapy dogs in hospitals, as service dogs for a veteran with PTSD, as a loving companion for someone who has no one. It's endless.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Trying to find more grant opportunities, trying to purchase a plane that has two engines so we can cross the Rocky Mountains and get into the lower parts of Texas and help the people and the animals there as there are just so many.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We operate the only land and air rescue operation in the country. We have ground vehicles for when the weather is not suitable for flying. Our executive director is going to make her goals for the coming year around searching for and seeking funds via grants or otherwise to be able to get a larger aircraft, to be able to pay for spay and neuter and educational programs in those areas of the country where animals are desperate and where people who own animals are in need of help, help with medical costs that would keep their animals from leaving their homes and going to a shelter.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We are closing in on 14,000 animals rescued in the last 7 years. By growing from two pilots and one very small twin engine plane to over 100 volunteers, two ground transport vehicles, and a Mahindra Airvan that can hold 6 times as many animals as our last airplane. We now have a paid executive director, we have grown from working with just a few rescues to over 100 rescues around the eastern United States. We did our first international rescue after Hurricane Maria and had a donor charter a plane to take emergency veterinary medical supplies as well as generators, batteries, water, toiletries and insulin to the island of Tortola. We returned with 45 animals and two rescuers who had been stranded. To date in 2018, we have rescued just over 2,000 animals. We took our plane and one of our ground transport vehicles to Texas to help out with Hurricane Harvey in Texas in 2017. We believe where there is a will there is a way and we want to do so much more!
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PITTSBURGH AVIATION ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM
Board of directorsas of 09/29/2021
Jonathan Plesset
No Dog Left Behind
Term: 2017 - 2017
Jan Kerr
Don Siegel
Brad Childs
Jonathan Plesset
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