The Animal Rescue Site Commits $300,000 to Shelter+ Challenges with Petfinder.com
Seattle, WA, January 16, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Following the success of The Animal Rescue Site’s Shelter+ Challenges with Petfinder.com in 2009, which gave $200,000 to shelter groups selected by visitor votes, The Animal Rescue Site CEO Tim Kunin announced today that $300,000 will be rewarded to shelters and animal rescue organizations through this innovative program in 2010. Once again, visitors to The Animal Rescue Site will decide which organizations receive these grants.
“Visitors to our site always have generously given of their time to click and vote to support animal rescue work,” said Kunin. “The campaigns run by various rescue organizations and shelters to win votes and secure grants has helped raise awareness of their needs throughout the United States, Canada, and other areas where the groups in the Petfinder.com Network operate.”
The Animal Rescue Site will hold three $100,000 Shelter+ Challenges in 2010: the first Challenge begins on January 18. Members of the Petfinder.com Network of shelters and animal rescue organizations are eligible to win 85 grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. In the last Challenge, more than 5 million votes were cast for shelters and animal rescue groups.
A complete list of all winners in the current and past Challenges can be found at www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com (click on the purple tab that says “Shelter+ Challenge”). Details of the upcoming Shelter+ Challenges are also available on the site.
More On The Animal Rescue Site and Petfinder.com
Each click on the purple “Click Here to Give - it’s Free” button at The Animal Rescue Site (www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com) provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid for by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at pet shelters supported by the Petfinder Foundation, the Fund for Animals’ animal sanctuaries (including the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in California), North Shore Animal League, and other worthy animal care facilities supported by GreaterGood.org.
In 2009, shopping (13,296,800 bowls of food) and daily clicks on the purple button (78,764,460 bowls of food) funded 92,061,260 free bowls of food for shelter and rescue animals, an increase of 18% over the previous year’s giving. In addition, The Animal Rescue Site’s Gifts That Give More™ program gave nearly $74,000 to help the animal victims of the Australian bushfires, aided animals in need following the floods in India by donating over $32,000, and provided more than $49,000 to animal rescue efforts in the wake of flooding in the Philippines, among other disaster relief gifts and support for animal rescue organizations.
The 2009 Shelter+ Challenges awarded $200,000 to shelters and rescue organizations in all 50 states and Washington D.C., in Canada, in Puerto Rico, and in Costa Rica.
Petfinder.com is the virtual home of 321,952 adoptable pets from nearly 13,000 adoption groups. The site has facilitated more than 13 million adoptions since it launched.
The Animal Rescue Site is part of the GreaterGood Network of websites that offer the public a unique opportunity to support causes they care about at no cost to them.
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“Visitors to our site always have generously given of their time to click and vote to support animal rescue work,” said Kunin. “The campaigns run by various rescue organizations and shelters to win votes and secure grants has helped raise awareness of their needs throughout the United States, Canada, and other areas where the groups in the Petfinder.com Network operate.”
The Animal Rescue Site will hold three $100,000 Shelter+ Challenges in 2010: the first Challenge begins on January 18. Members of the Petfinder.com Network of shelters and animal rescue organizations are eligible to win 85 grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. In the last Challenge, more than 5 million votes were cast for shelters and animal rescue groups.
A complete list of all winners in the current and past Challenges can be found at www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com (click on the purple tab that says “Shelter+ Challenge”). Details of the upcoming Shelter+ Challenges are also available on the site.
More On The Animal Rescue Site and Petfinder.com
Each click on the purple “Click Here to Give - it’s Free” button at The Animal Rescue Site (www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com) provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid for by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at pet shelters supported by the Petfinder Foundation, the Fund for Animals’ animal sanctuaries (including the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in California), North Shore Animal League, and other worthy animal care facilities supported by GreaterGood.org.
In 2009, shopping (13,296,800 bowls of food) and daily clicks on the purple button (78,764,460 bowls of food) funded 92,061,260 free bowls of food for shelter and rescue animals, an increase of 18% over the previous year’s giving. In addition, The Animal Rescue Site’s Gifts That Give More™ program gave nearly $74,000 to help the animal victims of the Australian bushfires, aided animals in need following the floods in India by donating over $32,000, and provided more than $49,000 to animal rescue efforts in the wake of flooding in the Philippines, among other disaster relief gifts and support for animal rescue organizations.
The 2009 Shelter+ Challenges awarded $200,000 to shelters and rescue organizations in all 50 states and Washington D.C., in Canada, in Puerto Rico, and in Costa Rica.
Petfinder.com is the virtual home of 321,952 adoptable pets from nearly 13,000 adoption groups. The site has facilitated more than 13 million adoptions since it launched.
The Animal Rescue Site is part of the GreaterGood Network of websites that offer the public a unique opportunity to support causes they care about at no cost to them.
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Rosemary Jones
206-268-5496
www.theanimalrescuesite.com
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