Five Grants For Animal

Following are five funds and foundations offering grants for animal shelters and rescue groups. Please refer to more posts and website articles at the bottom of the page for many more grant sources.

Maddie’s Fund currently offers fourteen different kinds of grants in five categories, ranging in size from $500 marketing awards to community collaborative grants worth millions of dollars. The goal of this group is to encourage a no-kill nation. Applications are accepted year round with no deadlines.

If you haven’t checked out Maddie’s Fund in a while, you should re-visit this site. This is one of the most generous sources of funding in the US. It’s been updated since the last time I checked. You’ll find a great deal of explanation on each type of grant with specific criteria to follow and forms to complete. Read all the information carefully before you start to be sure you can qualify and that you complete all the required forms. Current funding opportunities fall into five categories:

Starter Grants
Community Collaborative Grants
Lifesaving Award
Colleges of Veterinary Medicine
Medical Equipment.

The Bernice Barbour Foundation is taking grant applications until July 31, 2010.

Most grants awarded range from $500 to $5,000. Grant recipients must provide an interim report in six months after receiving the grant and at the end of the grant period describing how the grant was used, its results, and provide financial accountability for the funds. Grant types funded include spay / neuter grants, individual projects, organization program, and facility upgrades.

The Thelma Doelger Trust for Animals offers grants for California animal rescue and welfare groups primarily in the San Francisco area. Applications are considered throughout the year and can be submitted at any time.

The Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation accepts proposals no later than July 1st. Decisions are made before the Foundation’s fiscal year end, which is December 31st.

In 2008 this foundation granted $1,232,000 to 18 different groups to benefit companion animals and threatened and endangered species. Most of the grants were in New York and the Northeast, except a couple in Montana.

The Animal Assistance Foundation offers grants to Colorado nonprofits only. AAF’s next grant application deadline is March 26, 2010. Model State Grants fund projects that support the Foundation’s mission to make Colorado exemplary in animal welfare. The budget for Model State Grants is not fixed. Service Grants fund only medical services (non-chronic treatments) to animals in the shelter/rescue system prior to adoption. They require matching dollars from the grantee.

The William and Charlotte Parks Foundation for Animal Welfare lists its criteria here. The application process is described here. The application deadline is May 1st and applications are reviewed only once per year.

If you need tips on applying for grant funding, many community colleges offer continuing education classes that can help. Check schools in your area for class availability. If you don’t find a class you can take in person, check Education2Go.com for online grant writing and nonprofit classes. Enter your ZIP code and find a participating school in your area

New Year’s Resolutions for Pets

When you’re drawing up your New Year’s Resolutions for 2010 don’t forget to take your pet into account. The seven simple tips below from Dr. Ann Hohenhaus of The Animal Medical Center, New York City’s largest non-profit facility for veterinary care, research and education, will keep your dog or cat, and others in your community happy and healthy the whole year through!

1. Get your dog certified as a therapy dog and then start visiting hospitals, nursing homes or group living facilities. Organizations offering certification include: Bright and Beautiful Therapy Dogs, Therapy Dogs International and Delta Society.

2. Have your dog help a child learn to read! Join the R.E.A.D. (Reading Education Assistance Dogs) program at your library. This program improves children’s reading literacy using dogs as impartial listeners.

3. Don’t equate love with food. Those extra treats don’t build your bond with your pet, they only build love handles on your pet. In 2010 resolve to base your relationship with your pet on fun, not food. For a treat throw a ball to your dog or scoot the laser pointer up and down the wall to entertain your cat. Remember that cats have short attention spans so vary the activities in each play session.

4. Help your pets lose the love handles they already have by feeding them healthy snacks such as carrots, apples or air popped popcorn. And make sure that only 10% of their daily calorie requirement is fed as snacks.

5. Quitting smoking may already be on your list of New Year’s resolutions, and you should follow through on it not just for you, but for your pet! Veterinary researchers have documented that dogs and cats living in a household with a smoker do passively inhale smoke because they have elevated levels of nicotine metabolites in their urine. In cats, second-hand smoke has been also been associated with a greater risk of developing lymphoma and oral squamous cell carcinoma.

6. In the New Year don’t skip routine preventive healthcare for your pets, especially your cat. Over the past few years, the average number of times a cat visits the veterinarian per year has decreased to less than once annually. Regular veterinary care will help keep your cat or dog healthy.

7. Resolve to spend your pet’s budgeted dollars wisely. When visiting the veterinarian, make a list of questions to keep your appointment on track to get all your questions answered. Evaluate the feasibility of pet insurance with coverage for routine healthcare. ___________________________________________
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