LEND US YOUR EAR INCORPORATED
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
LUYE provides urgent vet care and wellness support for eartipped outdoor community cats, including wellness bag distribution at monthly food banks around the county. LUYE eartipped over 2,000 cats from 2018 through 2022, when its cattery was retired from service. LUYE expanded its wellness program in 2023.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Wellness Clinics
Wormer and flea control are distributed to neighbors around the county at LUYE's free clinics. These events improve the health of community cats and help identify community cats in need of assistance.
Supplemental Nutrition
Colony feeders receive medium-quality dry food monthly to help offset the cost of caring for large numbers of eartipped cats. Program participation is based on need and on funds available through donations. Small bags of dry food are included in wellness bags distributed monthly.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals spayed and neutered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Through 2022, our volunteers trapped over 2,000 outdoor cats for sterilization - then returned them to their site. Every cat was eartipped to prove at a glance that it's fixed and vaccinated.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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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?
Increase the ongoing health of free-roaming community cats.
(A) Provide urgent care for eartipped outdoor cats.
(B) Provide nutritional support for large eartipped colonies.
(C) Distribute wellness bags (wormer, flea control, nutrition) at monthly food banks around the county.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. LUYE Helpline 828-550-3662 fields requests for outdoor cat support.
2. Promote public awareness with flyers, displays, and similar activity.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Volunteers assemble about 25 wellness bags monthly for distribution at a local food bank.
Urgent veterinary care is provided by a local private vet at reduced rates.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
LUYE was formed in October 2018 to keep trap-neuter-return (TNR) among the critical solutions available for free-roaming cats in Haywood County NC. LUYE's Eartip Team brought their expertise to the new organization, adding more than 2,000 sterilized, eartipped cats to the over 6.500 community cats TNR'd between 2009-2018. LUYE retired its cattery from service at the end of 2022.
LUYE's expanded wellness program launches in 2023 in cooperation with local food banks.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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LEND US YOUR EAR INCORPORATED
Board of directorsas of 08/03/2023
Susan Kumpf
Lend Us Your Ear, Inc.
Term: 2018 - 2022
Donna Murray
Kelli Miller
Henry Kumpf
Sydney Klocke
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