PACT
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our PACT for Animals program plays a crucial role in addressing several heart-wrenching issues. Every year, approximately 6.5 million pets are relinquished to animal shelters in the US, and around 1.5 million animals are euthanized due to overcrowding. Additionally, military members face a unique challenge of worrying about their beloved pets while being deployed to serve their country. The stress and emotional turmoil they face can lead to depression and suicidal thoughts. That’s where we come in! PACT works tirelessly to provide long-term, temporary care for the pets of deployed military or those seeking medical treatment. Our program not only ensures the safety and well-being of these pets, but also provides peace of mind to their owners so they can focus on their mission or healing.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Military and Veterans Pet Foster Program
PACT supports deployed military personnel, as well as Veterans, providing temporary foster care for their pets. Many of us don’t consider that when a soldier is called to serve our country there may be an animal left behind without anyone to care for them. PACT is committed to helping those who are serving our country, or have served, by finding safe, loving and stable foster homes for their pets while they are deployed overseas.
Hospital Patient Foster Program
Supporting hospital patients by providing foster homes for their pets. These PACT foster programs focus on providing care for the companion animals of hospitalized military personnel, short or long term care, families of children and cancer patients, all of whom need our help while receiving medical treatments.
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Our results
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Number of sheltered animals
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Military and Veterans Pet Foster Program
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Direction of Success
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Goals & Strategy
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
PACT's overall goal is to preserve the bond between humans and animals and we accomplish this by providing quality, personalized, temporary foster care for companion animals in order to relieve the burden on individuals and families who are facing military deployment or serious illness that results in hospitalization. Ultimately, we would like to see zero companion animals permanently separated from their owners because of a person's temporary inability to provide care for their pet.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
- Provide alternatives to pet surrenders during military deployment and family health crisis through executed agreements that protect all parties involved.
- Conduct frequent home visits and communications with foster homes to ensure pets are being cared for in a loving and healthy environment.
- Encourage frequent communication between foster family and pet owner.
- As needed, support foster families by helping with the cost of food, caring, transporting animals.
- Further develop fostering opportunities across the United States in order to support daily calls received from military personnel.
- Develop retirement community foster network to benefit clients, animals and seniors.
- Educate children in our local schools on the issues facing companion animals and how they can help their local animal shelters.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
PACT's greatest assets are its people-- volunteer foster families willing to take in companion animals for months or even a year or two while soldiers are deployed or a family health crisis is resolved. The majority of foster families return to PACT after the completion of an assignment and ask for their next involvement. PACT currently has over 200 foster families and continues to attract and recruit additional ones in the Delaware Valley and across the US.
PACT's founder is an experienced networker and has made multiple contacts in the companion/humane animal arena; veteran associations, media; human healthcare and veterinary medicine sectors and other areas that can be helpful in furthering the mission and fundraising efforts of PACT. PACT has developed relationships with several individuals who have supported the operating budget of approximately $300,000 through their privately held foundations. PACT Founder/President does not draw a salary or receive reimbursement for rent or utilities and makes personal donations to further and grow the mission. All of PACT's nine Board members support its mission with financial and in-kind donations (such as discounted veterinary care.)
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
PACT is a grassroots organization created out of a love for animals and the bond we humans form with them in order to answer the need to provide a targeted and effective animal fostering program. PACT has grown carefully while building on its volume of fostering families and on the personal support of founder “Buzz" Miller. As word spread, more and more service men and women reached out to PACT from across the United States necessitating a more robust and diversified fundraising endeavor which has led to the successful execution of an annual direct mail campaign to numerous Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW's) organizations compelled to donate funds raised from small games of chance. PACT has also increased its efforts to find and secure new grant funders.
Programmatically, PACT increased its relationships with hospitals serving the Delaware Valley in 2013 by working through social service departments to offer PACT services to hospitalized patients in jeopardy of having to surrender their animals to a shelter.
More people need to be aware of PACT and what we do, and as a result, more pet owners and their animals can receive the necessary assistance. Our goal for the future is to have provided our services in every state nationally.
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PACT
Board of directorsas of 01/19/2024
Melvin Miller
PACT for Animals
Melvin " Miller
PACT for Animals
John Gronski
Assistant Adjutant General – Army, Pennsylvania National Guard
Judi Goldstein
Metropolitan Management Corporation
Ellen Thompson
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Sabina Louise Pierce
Wendy Kelly
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- 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 have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- 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.