HELPFUL ACTIVITIES TO BE DONE AWAY FROM SHELTER

• Help raise awareness of the shelter and specials/events – make arrangements with potential participants, design promos, get printed, get to “distributor.”
  • Develop program for inserts in gas, electric,  water, telephone bills
  • Develop program for  flyers on take home boxes from restaurants or on pizza boxes Shelter adoptions and s/n promos
  • Develop program for  table tents in restaurants for adoptable animals
  • Develop programs for other alternative advertising
    • Certified pre-owned cats (or dogs) added to auto dealers newspaper ads
    • “Big Dogs for Big Guys” at gyms
    • Etc.
• Poster makers for events and specials to post around town
• Set up an email list for mail merge to donors, adopters, and volunteers to send:
  • News letter with PayPal button to help raise awareness of the shelter and fundraising.
  • “Special” information from time to time – special event, rabies clinic, off-site adoption events
• Research and find grant opportunities – write grants for things we need
• Be an event planner to make events for fundraising or adoption possible
• Organize an aluminum can pick-up from local businesses (restaurants, real estate offices, etc)
• Recruit high school students to Facebook and Twitter about us
• Be  Santa for PetSmart photos or be a Photographer for same
• Write and distribute newsletter with help and direction from our Secretary
• Work with a store or company that calls with a fundraising idea
• Recruit High School students to volunteer at the shelter.
• Help with the Spay Neuter programs
• 2 recovery people (Part-time or Full-Time) for the s/n clinic (twice monthly)
• 1-2 person(s) to help with Scanning/Microchip processing for s/n clinic and transports
• 2-3 volunteers for the Poplarville transport (tagging, microchip support and processing animals)
• Help trap and transfer feral cats from Poplarville to various clinics/offices (if we get the grant and mileage will be paid)
• Help techs get animals into the operating room.  Vet pays for this service, need to be strong and agile.
• Community outreach – finding ways to get us recognized in the county
• Process adoption pictures for our Facebook page and board in office
• Think of items of interest to get in the newspaper and get them there
• Come up with things for us to post to our Facebook page
• Make dogs toys (plastic bottle, rocks, and socks)
• Cut fleece and make toys – we have the fleece