Foothills Humane Society awarded ASPCA grant
Published 9:24 am Monday, April 29, 2013
Foothills Humane Society provides dog food to in-need families in the community by driving to a large retail distribution facility in Shelby, N.C., where they receive donated dog food. Volunteers make this trip every two weeks returning with, on average, 2,000 pounds each trip. In addition, volunteers provide transportation for up to 20 animals every Wednesday to local veterinarians for their spay-neuter surgeries. In both instances, volunteers have graciously used their own personal vehicles. The goal of purchasing a van is to convey to the volunteers that their generosity and time spent helping to achieve the organization’s goals, and more importantly help the animals, is greatly appreciated.
In February, the ASPCA announced a call for applications as part of a new Volunteer Appreciation grants program aimed at recognizing organizations with extraordinary volunteers. After only two days, more than 140 applications were received, with an additional 250 applications that were started but not submitted. An ASPCA grants committee read and evaluated each application, and narrowed down the pool to eight organizations who exemplified the theme of this program. The ASPCA Adoption Center has a network of more than 500 volunteers who were called upon to review those top applications and recommend the three organizations they felt were most deserving of a $10,000 grant.
For more information, please visit the Foothills Humane Society website at www.foothillshumanesociety.org.
Foothills Humane Society is a North Carolina non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation organized in 1957 and located in the foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains near the South Carolina border. The society serves all of Polk County, N.C., and northern Spartanburg and Greenville counties, S.C., a rural community of about 25,000 people. Foothills Humane Society is the only open-admission companion animal sheltering organization in this geographical area and boasts a 98.9 percent live release rate for the approximately 2,500 animals served annually.
– article submitted by Joyce Cox