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Funding Period: October 1, 2000 - September 30, 2005
Total Funding: $467,936
Community Profile: Lodi is an agricultural and bedroom community in California's Central Valley. The city's population is 60,000.
Project Profile: The project consisted of lead agency Animal Friends Connection Humane Society (AFCHS), Lodi Animal Services and eleven out of twelve of the community's private practice veterinary hospitals.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Lifesaving Results: Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project in Lodi reached 97% of its adoption goals and 100% of its spay/neuter goals. In Year Five, the Project achieved an adoption guarantee for all healthy shelter animals!
Organizational Development:
Infrastructure
- The non-sheltered AFCHS grew from being an all-volunteer organization to having a paid Executive Director and a part-time paid assistant.
- Enlarged the volunteer base to more than 200.
Fundraising
- Developed databases for members, volunteers, donors, and fundraising events.
- Initiated a planned giving program and an endowment fund.
- Raised the number of fundraising events from one to five.
- Increased United Way donations 900%, from $1,000 in Year One to $10,000 in 2005.
- Started car donation and cartridge donation programs.
Program Development
- Boosted internet adoptions by 75%.
- Established a Cat Sanctuary.
- Added an isolation building to quarantine new cats before they enter the Sanctuary.
- More than doubled the number of offsite adoption days, from 24 to 52 per year.
- Inaugurated seven new adoption events.
Communications
- Produced AFCHS's first general information brochure.
- Published a quarterly newsletter.
- Developed cat and dog education booklets for new adopters. The cat booklet has been used as a model by In Defense of Animals and distributed to over 1,0000 organizations nationwide.
Community Collaboration and Outreach
- Worked with several city task forces, including the City of Lodi Animal Services and the City of Stockton Animal Services.
- Assembled the San Joaquin Animal Coalition (SJAC), which consists of multiple agencies in San Joaquin County dedicated to education and spay/neuter.
- Partnered with many affiliated community organizations, including the California Teachers Association, Lodi Education Association, Friends of the Library, Friends of Lodi Lake, Lodi Parks and Recreation, Micke Grove Zoo and Stockton Animal Shelter Friends.
- Mentored high school students through the Animal Friends of Tokay High School Club, which grew to more than 20 members this year, and brought in student volunteers to help at the Cat Sanctuary and at fundraising and special events.
- Garnered several awards from the City of Lodi for helping the local community.
Total performance after five years:
- 7,364 total adoptions
- 3,920 spay/neuter surgeries
- 2,270 fewer shelter animal deaths
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