GOOD NEWS ! Mission accomplished!
Thanks to your tremendous support, we have now reached our fundraising target for start-up costs: $173,000! This means the GTA's first non-profit, high-volume spay/neuter program offered through the Ontario SPCA clinic in Newmarket is on track to open this year! Way to go GTA and special thanks to our biggest supporters PetSmart Charities and the Ontario SPCA, without whom none of this would have been possible!
Now comes the hard part where we must ask for your patience over the following months as we complete the many tasks necessary to open this program to the public. This includes staff recruitment and hiring, staff training here and in North Carolina, volunteer recruitment and training, plus renovations to the clinic area in the Ontario SPCA facility. None of this will be helped by a sleepy summer that will slow our work in many of these areas. So, we ask for your patience and ask you to check back with us from time to time to see how things are progressing.
WHILE YOU'RE WAITING...
Support our next round of fundraising for a "Neuter Scooter". The Neuter Scooter will be a shuttle bus that stops in designated locations to pick up pets for spay/neuter appointments. The Scooter will drop off pets at the same location later the same day. Our fundraising target for this campaign is much lower at only $30,000. So please make a tax-deductible donation* towards the Neuter Scooter, or send a cheque to Spaycentral Toronto, PO Box 38183, 550 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto ON M5N 3A9. And remember: no donation is too small!
Once open, the clinic will always need cleaning supplies, plastic bags, towels, blankets and many other useful items that can be bought at Zellers. So if you're not able to donate cash at this time, why not direct some of your HBC points from your HBC Rewards card to ours and we'll use them to buy supplies for the clinic! As of November 2007, 80,000 rewards points are worth $10. Find out how easy it is to donate your HBC points to Spaycentral.
SEE THE FUTURE! SEE WHAT WE CAN DO IN TORONTO! Watch a You Tube video from the Humane Alliance of North Carolina. The Humane Alliance is the U.S. organization that inspired Spaycentral and the Ontario SPCA to work together to bring to Canada the new, sustainable spay/neuter clinic model that will begin reversing pet overpopulation. Watch the video here.
- * Spaycentral Toronto is a Canadian registered charity: number 84515 0366 RR0001. Spaycentral issues charitable receipts for donations of $20 or more. Donations by credit card are made via Canada Helps, which issues receipts for all donation amounts, and charges Spaycentral 3% commission for all online donations.
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