By
Sylviag
on Feb 11, 2015
at 6:46 AM
Oh we love working at the shelter! ED me and Becky's Dad for our first two days there. Once we help with a the initial reorganzation, I think we will settle down to 2 full days a week. Our skills are best used for heavy labor and handyman (Bryan - they all love him aleady :) and cleaning and reorganizing various aspects of their processes (me). They told us they are very open to new ideas. A lot of the older women love the outreach adoption stuff but physically hard for them to do some of the cleaning. I don't know much about their accounting, donations, costs and may not want to get involved in a bunch of administrtive stuff having done that all career. But I do have some ideas about possible grant request writing in the future; wrote complicated stuff my whole career. I found one web site already that hands out grants to shlelters. They have a pretty good web site (a guy who lives in Seattle actually maintains that) but would like to see them have a Newsletter with pics of adoptable cats every month that can be emailed to supporters. They shelter around 100 cats which is a lot but they do have the space but needs to be better organized. Don't know yet how they are getting volunteers but would like to see more outreach in that area as they do not have enough. But that is in the future. Want to help them get their facility physically reorganized and separation of cats with special needs and sanitation and more sanitation :) They have a couple of very dedicated people who are there almost every day. One of whom worked as a vet tech for many years and kind of takes the lead. The actual owner of the house and Shelter Diretor is hardly ever there as she has a full time job They have a large two story house for the main shelter and an "annex" across from it that looks to maybe have been a mother-in-law house. Sounds like your organization is moving in new directions also. No kill is the Holy Grail for sure.
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