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Funding Period: July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2005
Total Funding: $8.2 million
Community Profile: No More Homeless Pets in Utah operated throughout Utah's urban, suburban and rural communities, over 84,900 square miles and in 230 cities. The state's population is two and a half million.
Project Profile: The No More Homeless Pets in Utah coalition consisted of 28 rescue groups, 54 animal control agencies, one traditional shelter and 91 private practice veterinarians. The lead agency was Best Friends Animal Society.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Lifesaving Results: No More Homeless Pets in Utah (NMHPU) achieved 100% of total adoption goals, 94% of Maddie adoption goals (placements by adoption guarantee agencies), 62% of its healthy death reduction goal, 100% of its total death reduction goal, 98% of its private practice spay/neuter goal and 105% of the total spay/neuter goal. By the conclusion of Year Five, NMHPU had implemented adoption guarantees for healthy shelter animals in twelve counties.
Organizational Development:
Communication, Networking and Technical Systems
- Built and maintained a strong statewide coalition of large and small, rural and urban, adoption guarantee and traditional animal welfare organizations.
- Secured the cooperation of all except one animal control agencies in the state, from individual sheriffs to large well-funded municipal agencies.
- Maintained a productive working relationship with nearly 100 private practice veterinarians and reached out to the state Veterinary Medical Association for the first time.
- Instituted a system for compiling, tracking and analyzing data from every shelter in the state.
- Created statewide marketing and advertising campaigns.
- Established a statewide website to keep partners and the general public up to date on projects, goals and achievements.
- Produced comprehensive yearly analyses of the NMHPU campaign, What worked, What didn't, What's next.
Project Partner Assistance
- Worked with partners to post all groups' animals on the internet.
- Devised idea exchange meetings to build partner skills and promote best practices.
- Hired program coordinators to counsel partners in areas such as advertising, dispute resolution, and event organizing.
Program development
- Established two Furburbia offsite adoption centers.
- Created high volume Super Adoption events and many smaller adoption events.
- Designed a successful spay/neuter voucher program.
- Replicated West Valley City's exceptional lifesaving achievements in two additional communities.
NMHPU Internal Operations
- Expanded the volunteer base from 250 to 600.
- Increased donations annually, from $60,000 in Year One to $700,000 in Year Five.
- Built fundraising capacity with new events and marketing methods.
Total performance after five years:
- 133,154 total adoptions
- 107,753 spay/neuter surgeries (thanks to Maddie's vouchers and the Mobile Clinic)
- 40,310 fewer shelter animal deaths
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