Please help my town’s animal shelter by voting for it to win a grant!

tblue37

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Sat Nov-15-08 02:37 PM
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Please help my town’s animal shelter by voting for it to win a grant!

Edited on Sat Nov-15-08 02:47 PM by tblue37

When you go to the voting page, enter Lawrence Humane Society as the shelter’s name. This state is Kansas, and the city is Lawrence. Our rescue shelter needs this money desperately! THANKS!

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2008/nov/14/humane_society/

The Lawrence Humane Society needs money and now an opportunity is available. The Animal Rescue Site http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3
is offering a grand prize of $25,000 to the humane society that is voted the best on its Web site. Voting began at the beginning of this month and ends Dec. 14. Participants can visit the site every day and type in which humane society they think is the best. Midge Grinstead, Lawrence Humane Society executive director, said the money could be put to good use, especially at this time.

The Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th Street, could win a $25,000 grant to supply animals with food and better care. People can vote for their favorite humane society everyday on the Animal Rescue Site.= through Dec. 14.

“We are going to be out of money by the end of this month,” she said. “I don’t know what we’re going to do. We’ll have to try and get through it.” Grinstead said money was always needed because it was a nonprofit organization and the budget had been cut for the last two years. A lot of money goes to water bills, not only to provide the 650 animals currently there with water, but also for cleaning several times a day, everyday.

“It’s a 25,000 square-foot facility,” Grinstead said. “Our bills have always been high, but they’ve doubled this year compared to last year.” Jackie Bunnell, president of the Lawrence Humane Society Board of Directors, said the humane society was always struggling to make ends meet. “The shelter gets only minimal support from the county and must constantly look for ways to cut costs, in a time when costs keep going up,” she said. Bunnell said employees at the humane society went far to cut costs. “We go to the extent of heating the shelter only to a temperature that will ensure the health of the pets. The staff often wear coats and gloves inside the shelter, rather than turn up the heat”<emphasis added>.

She said if the Lawrence Humane Society won the money, it would go to paying off the loan it had to take out to make state-mandated repairs to the old building.

BTW, if you go to the site's home page every day, at http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
you can click a button and donate food to animal shelters--no strings, just one click and you help feed animals in shelters. Do it every day. It is unrelated to the shelter contest. But, please, until the end of the contest, please vote daily for our animal shelter. It really is desperate, and we are a university town, so a lot of college kids abandon their pets every year and even every semester. Also, we end up with homeless animals from all over the state sometimes!