SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF MONTEREY CTY
Changing Lives
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Pet overpopulation, wildlife rescue, and assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Adoptions & Animal Shelter
SPCA Monterey County's doors are open to all animals in need. We rescue, shelter, and adopt dogs, cats, barn animals, small animals, and exotics. We are open for adoptions seven days a week and we never put time limits on adoptable pets. Please visit our adoptable pets online at http://www.spcamc.org/adopt
We also accept owner surrendered pets from any location as well as stray pets from certain jurisdictions in our community. Thanks to your support, your SPCA goes above and beyond for animals in our care, mending broken bones, providing emergency surgery, offering often long-overdue veterinary care, and lots of love and compassion. Thank you for making our rescues possible!
Humane Investigations
The SPCA’s Humane Investigations Department responds to almost 1,000 cases of reported animal neglect and cruelty each year. SPCA Humane Officers are trained and sworn to exercise the powers of a peace officer to prevent acts of neglect and cruelty to animals by enforcing all State laws and applicable local ordinances. SPCA Humane Officers are responsible for investigating, preparing cases for prosecution and educating the public regarding animal cruelty and neglect and how to properly care for all animals. SPCA Humane Officers get their powers from the California Corporations Code 14502, and can exercise the powers of a peace officer while investigating any crimes involving animals. Examples of cruelty and neglect cases seen by SPCA Humane Officers include abandonment, dogs on chains, emaciated horses, cat hoarding, and cockfighting to name just a few. Please visit our Open Cases page to learn about our most recent cases: http://www.spcamc.org/open-cases.html
Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation
The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is the only full service wildlife rehabilitation center serving Monterey County. We operate under permits from the California Department of Fish and Game and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Each year, The SPCA Wildlife Center admits over 2,000 animals for treatment and care. The species of animals received ranges from large animals such as bobcats, deer, opossums, hawks, owls, and pelicans, to small animals, including squirrels, turtles, hummingbirds, swallows, and more. Serving the entire Monterey County area, the Wildlife Center provides a resource for people who encounter wildlife in need while also providing care for exotic pet animals that are lost or surrendered to The SPCA. In addition to receiving animals brought in by the public, Wildlife Center staff members are available every day of the year to respond to wildlife emergencies and provide transport and care to animals in distress.
Veterinary Clinic
SPCA Monterey County provides low-cost, donor-subsidized spay and neuter services, vaccinations, leukemia tests and microchips for all dogs and cats in our community. The SPCA Veterinary Clinic also provides spay and neuter surgeries for our adoptable shelter pets, emergency surgery for injured stray and rescued dogs and cats, health care for our shelter animals, and veterinary services for animals rescued by SPCA Humane Officers. We also offer a mobile spay/neuter clinic to bring our low cost and free services to communities where they are needed most.
Behavior Training
SPCA Monterey County provides low-cost behavior training for dogs and puppies, private behavior consultations with concerned pet owners, a free pet behavior helpline, free pet behavior handouts, and our innovative Ruff Start program. Ruff pairs untrained dogs with incarcerated trainers at Salinas Valley State Prison, helping both the people and the pets compassionately learn, train, and grow.
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 rescued
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Adoptions & Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Total number of dogs, cats, puppies, kittens, barn pets, horses, exotic animals, and wild animals rescued. Your local, independent SPCA is here for all animals in need.
Number of animals spayed and neutered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Veterinary Clinic
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Providing affordable spay and neuter services to our community saves lives. In 2020, the clinic was closed briefly due to the pandemic.
Number of pets receiving medical or behavioral rehabilitation with our TLC program before being adopted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Adoptions & Animal Shelter
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The SPCA's TLC Program provides emergency veterinary care or one-on-one behavioral intervention to stray or surrendered pets to make them happy, healthy, and adoptable. Learn more: www.SPCAmc.org/tlc
Pets turned away
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
We never turn pets away due to breed, age, health, or behavior. We often receive pets from other counties due to their shelters' limited admission policies, and pets have no one else to help them.
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?
We will continue to be open admission shelter and rescue center for all animals – never turning any pet away for any reason. Our doors will always to be open to all animals in need, including dogs, cats, small pets, horses, barn animals, exotic pets, and wildlife. For well over a decade we have found a home for every healthy dog or cat in our care. We are committed to ending the euthanasia of all pets with manageable or rehabilitatable conditions.
Our TLC Program is at the heart of our mission. It's the veterinary care or behavioral intervention we give pets to make them happy, healthy, and adoptable. Without your support, these animals would have no place to turn. They arrive in desperate need – often needing immediate emergency surgery. TLC also helps animals who need training to thrive in a new home as well as those who arrive fearful or unsure of humans and need to learn to trust people again.
Our services are focused on helping pets, wildlife, and people in Monterey County.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
SPCA Monterey County is committed to delivering quality, lifesaving animal protection programs with compassion.
Increasing the number of pets saved through our lifesaving TLC (Treatment, Learning, Compassion) work and Ruff Start Program.
Increasing adoptions by offering tools to easily adopt new family members.
Increasing the number of low cost and targeted pet spay and neuters, which will decrease pet homelessness and euthanasia county-wide.
Increasing the number of children educated about humane treatment of animals.
Continuing our broad spectrum of high-quality programs that help people, pets, and wildlife in Monterey County: The SPCA is completely independent and not a chapter of any other organization. Everything we do is made possible thanks to your support.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
SPCA Monterey County is committed to generating revenues sufficient for the effective and efficient delivery of programs and services necessary to the humane treatment of animals in our community. We continually assess all programs to ensure they are having an important impact on the lives of pets, people, and wildlife in Monterey County. We focus on excellent customer service that turns adopters into lifelong donors and encourages donors to continually raise their level of giving.
We believe in providing training to staff to add to their growth and ultimately their positive impact on the animals in our care. Our employees are leaders in their fields.
We are also focused on raising future advocates, donors, and stakeholders through our targeted humane education programs.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Ending humane euthanasia of healthy dogs and cats due to lack of homes: Achieved in 2009.
Increasing pets saved though our TLC program and our Ruff Start Program with Salinas Valley State Prison: over 1,300 animals helped in 2019.
Increasing adoptions: focus on excellent customer service and removing barriers to adoption. Use advanced technology to help rescued pets.
Increasing the number of animals spayed and neutered at our Veterinary clinic through targeted, extremely low-cost spay and neuter services, increasing clinic hours, and providing or funding mobile spay/neuter services.
Increasing the number of dogs attending training classes at the SPCA
Rescuing injured and orphaned wildlife every day of the year.
We will continue to be open admission shelter and rescue center for all animals – never turning any pet away for any reason. Our doors will always to be open to all animals in need, including dogs, cats, small pets, horses, barn animals, exotic pets, and wildlife.
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 identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, 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, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), 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?
Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF MONTEREY CTY
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Paul Hoffman
Community volunteer
Anita Dunsay, Ph.D
Community volunteer
Diane Mall
Community volunteer
Laraine Sanford
Community Volunteer
Anne Fitzpatrick, Ed.D
Community Volunteer
Konny Murray
Community Volunteer
Lee Cox
Community Volunteer
Paul Hoffman
Community Volunteer
Carol Kimbrough, MA, MFT, RVT
Community Voluteer
Laurel Lembo
Community Volunteer
Wayne Moon
Community Volunteer
Bob Schaefer
Community Volunteer
Debra Couch
Community Volunteer
Adriana Hayward, Psy.D
Community Volunteer
Courtney Jones
Community Volunteer
Janet Tague
Community Volunteer
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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