SUGARS GIFT INC

Our mission is to provide hospice, euthanasia and end-of-life veterinary services for terminally ill pets in their own homes. This allows them a comfortable, peaceful setting, where they have lived and been loved, to cross over the Rainbow Bridge with dignity. Our services overcome conditions that could be due to the pet’s inability to be moved or treated at a facility, or due to the owner’s inability to leave the home.

Our goal is still to help one pet per day cross over the Rainbow Bridge with comfort, dignity and peace. It costs us approximately $1,000 to help one pet (our costs are going up, too). We expect that once our presence is known, we will need to fund one pet per day by the end 2020.By the end of 2024, we hope to be not only in the Sarasota/Bradenton region, but also in all of Florida. Then, by the end of year 2025, we want to be nationwide.

We are partnering with mobile veterinarians in Sarasota and Manatee County who will perform dog and cat euthanasia at the home of their pet owners. The veterinarians will still be paid their fees; however, our services to the pet and pet owners will be paid for with donations from caring individuals and companies who choose to support Sugar’s Gift’s and our mission.

In the second part of our business, we want to present workshops for pet owners on estate planning, specifically how to utilize Pet Trusts in their overall estate plan. We can present these workshops at animal rescue organizations for their supporter. We can also work with the public libraries locally that allow non-profits to present workshops at no costs to the organization. We have a number of “Over-55” communities locally that allow speakers to present workshops on various topics.

We want to target pet owners whose pets are in such pain that they cannot be moved and taken to their veterinarian when they need to be euthanized. It would be tragic if their pets had to be in pain in order to be moved to their veterinarian’s office for their last breath. And, we want to target animal rescue organizations that need our services, as well, although we haven’t fully worked up how that will work. That will be in a future stage of operations.

We have spoken with a local pet ambulance that now transports the pets to the crematory with dignity. We have 6 veterinarians who have committed to help us help more angels on their journey to the Rainbow Bridge. We now have coverage for most of the Sarasota and Manatee county area when our pet owners call on us to help. We are working on Pinellas County next as we have had requests for help there.
We also have 3 new board members total 6, and we will have more help with ideas and strategies.

We are going to actively solicit funds from individuals, corporations and other grant makers. Below we describe some of our intended programs:

• We are going to have a Major Gifts Program to cultivate and solicit donors who have the potential to make large gifts.
• We have partnered with Global Giving, one of the most prestigious crowd funding sites for non-profit organizations. Periodically, they have bonus days and matching days, as well as other programs to encourage donors to give to their partners. We have participated in one of those to date and will continue to do so. Our donors have the capability of donating annually or monthly.
• We are working to become a partner in the Animal Planet’s R.O.A.R. team. Our goal is to be counted as a partner in the fall of 2019. This has been a goal of ours and we want to become a partner to be able to help more pets.

We have been awarded Google Grants, had articles locally written about us and veterinarians are referring pets.