We plan to create, by July 2021, a 6,400 square foot, purpose-designed, high-volume, high-quality spay and neuter clinic that will increase our capacity by 38% - more than 5,000 additional procedures annually. Our local governments spend millions of taxpayer dollars on stray and unwanted animals. In addition to performing a limited number of surgeries at their facilities, the City and County of Sacramento both contract with the Sacramento SPCA to spay and neuter their shelter animals, adding to our already high volume. However, due to our clinic’s space restrictions, current demand far exceeds the number of surgeries we are able to perform. To meet our community’s burgeoning needs and sustain our current volume, we must have more surgical suites and a strategically designed facility.

To accomplish this, we will re-purpose the current administrative building to more efficiently utilize existing space and resources. This renovation will result in the increased capacity to help and impact a larger population of animals and people in our community while providing exceptional medical treatment to the animals in our care. With four surgical suites in the renovated building, our surgeons will be able to perform 5,000 more spay/neuter procedures annually, expand our free spay/neuter Sunday clinics for feral/community cats, and continue our leading role in addressing the root cause of animal suffering. A new shelter medicine center will provide a comforting, right-sized, efficient space to treat the smallest to the largest animals and ensure that every animal, no matter the length of its stay, receives excellent care in a space designed especially for them.

To fully renovate our current sick bay, administration building, and parking lot, the Board of Directors of the Sacramento SPCA is allocating restricted funds, leveraging existing assets and conducting a $2.25 million major gifts campaign. Our success will require the generous investment of the entire Sacramento community - from animal lovers to civic-minded residents – who share our vision that every animal deserves a loving home for life, that no animal needlessly suffers, and that spaying and neutering is the only solution to animal overpopulation.

As of July 2019, we have launched a 24 month $2,25 million major gifts campaign and have set a specific timeline to ensure that revenue goals are met. The major gifts campaign is being led by the Board of Directors; the Major Gifts Committee which is comprised of a mix of board members and engaged supporters; the Chief Executive Officer; and the Director of Development. The Major Gifts Committee meets on a monthly basis to review progress to goal, and to determine how we can be more effective. While the campaign is underway, we continue to perform more than 18,000 spay/neuter surgeries annually, administer more than 16,000 low-cost vaccines, and adopt more than 3,600 animals into loving homes. Our annual statistics are published in our animal impact report, which we invite you to read: https://www.sspca.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/sacramentospca2018stats_0.pdf?1546641244

The Sacramento SPCA is one of the top 10 high-volume spay/neuter centers in the nation, performing 18,000+ procedures annually. Twenty percent of the 18,000+ spay and neuter surgeries we perform each year are for feral and community cats; we are quickly approaching our 40,000th low or no-cost surgery for these cats whose quality and length of life are greatly improved once altered. Our spay/neuter program is the most important and effective thing we can do to ensure every animal can find a forever home. We are moving forward with fundraising and design efforts and are on track to create, within the next 24 months, a 6,400 square foot, purpose-designed, high-volume, high-quality spay and neuter clinic that will increase our capacity of surgeries by 38%.