Funds in Animals

Loki was Ulrika Friesen's sweet cat, and the unofficial mascot of the Employee Experience team in CX. In honor of his sweetness, and mischief, we're raising funds to support Humane Society Silicon Valley.

Bring an approved item to the Chicago Office during the month of September, or donate funds here to be matched, to help out our local, four-legged friends in need!

The Sloth Institute, located in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, focuses on enhancing the welfare and conservation of sloths through the rescue, rehabilitation and release of hand-raised and injured sloths. While also conducting vital research, conservation and education programs to ensure their survival. When symbolically adopt a sloth, you help orphaned and injured sloths return back to the rainforest where they belong. Adopt now as a gift for yourself or a loved one. More details: https://www.theslothinstitute.org/get-involved/adopt-a-sloth/

Let's celebrate National Dogs Day this July 21st with a Mario Kart Tournament to support these 2 shelters. Donate to this cause to join the CSS Mario Kart Tournament. IT'S GAME ON!

July 21st is national dogs day, we want to support 2 shelters in Mexico: Hacemos que suceda & Refugio Franciscano which provide shelter, food, and medical attention not only to Dogs, their population also considers cats, birds, chickens, horses, and donkeys.

Meraki Gives & Women of Meraki are bringing back the pets calendar for FY23! Please make a donation to our fund, or any charity of your choosing, and be sure to order a pets calendar! (Suggested donation is at least $15) Order here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UFuPdftsquOvsyn565-Xe7GmNmcOuRAAbxnCrElUW3g/edit

It's Impact Week! Namely is matching up to $5,000 in employee donations to ANY organization THIS WEEK ONLY! Show your support by donating below.

Supporting animal welfare agencies in the metro Atlanta Area.

Florida Trailblazer's FY23 Q1 Philanthropy

All about helping save the dogs.

There is only one turtle dedicated rescue center in Bulgaria. Over its 14 years of existence it has helped cure and hatch over 6 000 adult and baby turtles. They are fundraising 13K BGN (7K have already been raised) to equip a medical cabinet to treat injured turtles. Turtles are an endangered species with humans affecting their population by overhauling their natural habitats by pollution, infrastructure building, etc. More about the campaign here: https://www.platformata.bg/bg/kauzi/1388:podari-topla-cherupka/details/campaign.html

Somos una pareja de San José, amantes de los animales, quienes desde que vinimos a vivir en la zona notamos que hay una problematica con los perros callejeros. Con pocos recursos, pero con mucho espacio y amor, creamos este albergue con la intención de ayudar y mejor las condiciones de vida de los de perros en condición de abandono que hay en la zona. Todo lo recaudado será para cubrir las necesidades de los perros que tenemos a nuestro cuidado, desde cuidados veterianarios, alimentación y cuidados básicos.

We are a charitable organization dedicated to rescuing and rehoming at-risk dogs and cats. Although we started as a large dog rescue, we have expanded to finding homes for dogs of all sizes and ages -- plus a few kitties.

IAR Costa Rica rescues, rehabilitates and release injured wildlife. Supporting this cause will mean helping IAR growing the number of threatened wildlife by increasing their rescue center capacity. Their goal is to raise $140,000 in order to rebuild the refuge. You are able to see the progress directly from their web page: https://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/rebuildtherefuge

Supporting a curated set of solidly pro-hunting and fishing conservation organizations.

Inland Empire Pets Alive Collaborative (IEPAC) Fund was created to help generate donations to worthy animal welfare organizations in the Inland Empire of Southern California, primarily Riverside County and San Bernardino County.

Donate to this fund or any other fund/cause of your choice and submit your order here for a FY22 Meraki Pet Calendar! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10wuVpgyanSpT3YAxrUVP21aqwsWXcgkHixw3R0wlTz8/viewform?edit_requested=true

Fundraising for our furry friends!

Georgia House Rabbit Society (GHRS) was alerted to a hoarding situation in Dekalb County in May 2021. At the property, they found over 150 rabbits crammed into 8 hutches, living outside in filthy conditions. All of the rabbits were confiscated, triaged, and given immediate medical attention. Unfortunately, a few did not make it. But the remainder are safe and GHRS took in 125 bunnies. All of the confiscated rabbits needed vet care, including spaying/neutering and medical attention, including treating wounds from fighting, abscesses, mites, coccidia, syphilis, fleas, ticks, and sore hocks. Considering just a spay/neuter can cost $150-$180 per rabbit (not including other treatments that have been necessary), vet bills quickly mount up. The shelter could use our help! December 2021 Edit: This summer, one of the rabbits from the hoarding case suddenly died and came back positive for RHDV (a highly contagious and deadly virus in rabbits). The entire shelter had to be deep cleaned and closed for over 6 weeks for quarantine. While it increases the cost of sheltering each rabbit, every new rabbit that GHRS takes into the shelter must be vaccinated for RHDV as a precaution. November 2022 Edit: Can't believe it's been over a year since starting this fund! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! Although the shelter has adopted out many of the bunnies from this emergency intake, there are nine rabbits from this hoarding case still waiting to be adopted and have been at the shelter since May 2021. Please consider donating to support these and the hundreds of rabbits that GHRS helps each year. Thank you!

The Macquarie Dublin office has a special association with the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind. A number of years ago we sponsored the training of a puppy “MacDub” to become a qualified Assistance Dog. MacDub was placed with his family and quickly became “Best Friend” to Leon, a young boy with autism. MacDub is still working away as professionally as ever with his family and making a huge difference in their lives. This year Macquarie AirFinance in Dublin is getting involved with the IGDB annual fundraising campaign and taking on the challenge of walking, running or cycling 100km throughout the month of May! The money raised will enable the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind to change the lives of people who are vision impaired and the families of children with autism. If you would like to make a donation, please click on the "Donate" link.

Welcome to ProDogRomania! We are a non-profit association and would like to inform you about our animal welfare work in Romania. The association was founded in order to represent and promote the idea of animal welfare beyond the borders of Germany in Europe and especially to fight against the misery of dogs in Romania. In a country like Romania, where animal welfare is still in its infancy or even non-existent, we have set ourselves the goal of counteracting these abuses. Helping to help themselves is our first priority! We have been planning it for a long time... Until now there has never been the opportunity... A realisation was not possible... and now finally, together with the PDR Team Baile and the veterinary team from Timisoara, we will be able to realise the dream of a "Castration-Mobile-Vehicle"! Emergency calls keep coming in, especially from rural areas and up in the mountains. Many people there have little money & possibilities. For them, the way to Baile Herculane is half a world trip and they would never be able to come to our shelter for a free castration campaign. They would love to castrate their animals, but the journey with the animal to the vet simply cannot be made possible. In addition, there are many free-roaming dogs up there in the mountains, all of which are not neutered and continue to multiply year after year. With the Castration-Mobile-Vehicle we are self-sufficient and our veterinary team is mobile. We can travel to the villages and offer our free help - for owner dogs, but also for the free-roaming street dogs of the region. Mishu (Shelter Manager) is already talking to some of the mayors in the region to make them aware of this innovation. If dramatic emergencies are found during such missions, they can be taken to our shelter. All other dogs that are fit stay there and are allowed to live their free lives there. ProDogRomania e.V. will finance the complete vehicle and of course we need your help! The vehicle has already been found, the papers are ready and it will be brought to Romania as soon as possible! We hope that you are as happy about this news as we are and that you recognise the necessity and importance of this project. We appreciate your support and are very excited to see how our new project will develop! Thank you very much for your support!

Had a dog? Have a dog? Have several dogs? Just love dogs? Well, I do! Few things upset me more than the mistreatment of animals so I am always looking for ways to get involved to save the dogs!

My favorite charity is the Animal Care Society Cork, it will be yours too should you ever get around to visit, their love and dedication to the animals is second to none. Besides "just" running a lot of the daily operation, Albert Kleyn (Director of the ACS) has envisioned many other projects that he'd like to run to improve animal lives all across the county and country. One of those projects was to gift sets of different sized Pet Oxygen Masks to the Cork Fire Brigade so that animals that were exposed to smoke during fires could be adequately treated. As with most charity projects, the biggest issue was funding. Although this one could actually be kick-started with an affordable amount, so I did just that in late 2020 and some of those masks were delivered and handed over in February 2021 https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40218257.html County Cork and Ireland are a lot bigger and Fire Brigades around the County need a lot more kits than what I alone (and the VMware matching) could possibly afford. If you think this is worthy and esp. if you are or have family belonging to the ~ 60% of Irish households with pets, please donate. Thank you! Valentin P.S. If you aren't from Ireland / Cork, here is how you can set up something similar for your community: There might already be a charity close to you! Originally, the ACS would have sourced the masks from https://www.smokeypaws.co.uk/ which operates in the UK, due to the back then imminent brexit we decided to opt for a more local option thought. 1. Identify the need for the local Fire Brigade Ring your local Fire Station (non emergency number!) and ask them, they will be happy to let you know whether there is need and for how many. You should calculate with 1 set per car and maybe one additional reserve per station. 2. Find a local / general animal charity to work with that is registered and eligible on vmware.brightfunds.org and of course interested This is important because you want your contribution to be matched and it also distributes some of the organizational effort. The charity would buy the masks with the ear marked, donated funds. Make sure to donate directly to the charity and then match on brightfunds so that the directly donated money is available immediately. 3. Find a re-seller for the masks There might be more than one model but we used the Smiths Medical SKU "V7148 Family". https://www.smiths-medical.com/products/veterinary/rescue-and-resuscitation/recovery-oxygen-masks To find a local distributor, ask their regional customer service: https://www.smiths-medical.com/customer-support/contact-us 4. Negotiate with the distributor It doesn't hurt to ask! Depending on how many kits you are buying (+ if the charity fronts the matched amount since it can take ~ half a year for that to be transferred), the re-seller might be willing to give a discount. Make sure to ask for the red carry bag as those are sometimes not included with the kit, you might also want to add a slip lead per pack. Also mention the purpose, that the masks will be procured by a charity and gifted to local fire stations. While most veterinarian resellers already operate on thin margins, they might not want to make (much) money on this. 4. Prepare the handover The charity might have some contacts here, maybe contact a local news paper and use that to generate additional funds to try to provide the wider County with mask sets :-).

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