What is The Animal Rescue Site?
The Animal Rescue Site is an online activism site that offers simple ways to help provide food and care to rescued animals living in shelters and sanctuaries.
Clicking is Free
In just a few seconds each day, visitors can click on the purple "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button on the home page and, at no cost to them, help feed and care for rescued animals. Bowls of food are paid for by The Animal Rescue Site's sponsors and distributed by The Fund for Animals, shelters supported by Petfinder Foundation, North Shore Animal League, and other worthy animal charities supported by GreaterGood.org.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
Since its launch in July of 2002, the site has established itself as a clear leader in online activism and a dynamic force in the effort to give all animals the happy, healthy lives they deserve. In The Animal Rescue Site's first year of operation, over 10 million bowls of food were funded for animals in need.
Shopping Gives Even More
Shopping at The Animal Rescue Site store helps even more. Each and every purchase provides more funding to provide food and care to rescued animals.
Together, your free daily click and your purchasing power through The Animal Rescue Site store create a powerful, positive force for rescued animals.
How does the site work?
When you click on the purple "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button, your click is counted by our servers and you move to the Thank You page, where you will see small ads for our site sponsors. There is no charge to you; bowls of food are fully paid for by these sponsors.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
Every click on the purple button results in funding raised for the charitable partners who care for rescued animals. The more people who click, the more bowls of food we can fund.
Who pays for the bowls of food and care?
Site sponsors purchase small ads on the Thank You page for a certain amount of time. The Animal Rescue Site then tabulates the number of people who click during that time frame and bill the sponsor for the appropriate amount. The Animal Rescue Site divides the monies between The Fund for Animals, Petfinder Foundation, North Shore Animal League, and GreaterGood.org.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
How do you calculate the amount of food given by visitors' clicks?
We count the number of clicks each day. The amount paid for those clicks is based on the type and structure of advertising agreement the site sponsors have with The Animal Rescue Site.
The two keys to the success of The Animal Rescue Site are site sponsors and visitors like you. The more sponsors the site has, the more funding toward food and care for rescued animals is given with each click. The more visitors who click each day, the more advertising fees we can collect and the more food and care we can fund together!
How often can I click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button? Can I just keep clicking and give thousands of bowls of food at once?
You can click once a day, every day of the year on The Animal Rescue Site and on each of our other Click to Give™ sites. Our agreement with our sponsors allows us to count one click, per person, per calendar day. A monitoring system is set up to check this. While you could click on the button ten or a hundred or a thousand times, we will only count one click from you. In the meantime, our system could be slowed down, possibly overloaded, preventing other visitors' clicks from generating funding. Please note that we count clicks received through company firewalls, proxy servers, etc., to the best of our ability. We count every click as fairly and accurately as possible.
How much food has been given? Where is food distributed?
Please see our Results — How You're Helping page for a detailed breakdown of funding generated. Funds are divided among the site's beneficiaries, including the The Fund for Animals, Petfinder Foundation, North Shore Animal League, and other worthy animal rescue programs supported by GreaterGood.org.
Are cookies required to count my click?
Cookies are not required in order to click and be counted at The Animal Rescue Site. If we drop a cookie it is so that one day we may offer a personal click tracker for your own enjoyment and motivation.
Please note that some of our site sponsors may drop a cookie for their own tracking purposes.
Feel free to reject cookies — it won't have any impact on your click being counted.
When does the new calendar day start?
The new calendar day starts at midnight United States Pacific Standard Time. This is 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Is The Animal Rescue Site a nonprofit organization?
The Animal Rescue Site is not a nonprofit organization and cannot accept financial donations directly.
GreaterGood.org is an independent charitable organization devoted to addressing the health and well-being of people (particularly women and children), animals, and the planet. GreaterGood.org distributes funds generated through the GreaterGood Network of websites to the many charitable organizations responsible for implementing programs named on these sites. 100% of the funds generated through the GreaterGood Network pass through GreaterGood.org to our partner charities.
We also encourage you to donate directly to:
The Fund for Animals
https://secure.hsus.org/01/ffa_donate?source=gaffar
Petfinder Foundation
http://www.petfinder.com/foundation/
North Shore Animal League
http://www.nsalamerica.org/?source=rescuesite
How Do I Know This is Real?
There are a number of ways you can be assured that The Animal Rescue Site is for real.
Visit "Snopes.com," the Urban Legends Reference Pages.
Read the article on our suite of click-to-give sites, including The Animal Rescue Site, at Wikipedia.
Contact our charitable partners directly:
The Fund for Animals
200 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
http://www.fundforanimals.org
Phone: 1-888-405-FUND (888-405-3863)
Petfinder.com Foundation
4729 East Sunrise Drive, #119
Tucson, AZ 85718
E-mail: foundation@petfinder.com
http://www.petfinder.com/foundation
Phone: 520.207.0626
North Shore Animal League
25 Davis Ave
Port Washington, NY 11050
http://www.nsalamerica.org
Phone: (516) 883-7575
For information and ratings of our charitable partners, visit Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org).
See also our Press page for articles that have been published about The Animal Rescue Site:
What are the GreaterGood Network stores?
GreaterGood Network stores allow you to give even more back to your favorite cause! Supporters can contribute directly to charity by purchasing Gifts that Give More™, which give 100% of the donated amount to charity, or by purchasing one of the 4500+ products that we carry, including jewelry, apparel, and gifts. For each item purchased in one of GreaterGood Network's online stores, we give between 5% and 50% of the item's retail price to charity.
What is the Take Action Center?
The Take Action Center provides another free and easy way site visitors to The Animal Rescue Site can engage in issues they identify with and care about. Become informed about important issues in our busy, complicated world, show your support by signing a pledge or petition, and pass along your new knowledge to friends, family, and colleagues!
What is The Animal Rescue Site's privacy policy?
You are not required to provide any personal information to visit The Animal Rescue Site and help feed and care for rescued animals. Click here to see our complete privacy policy.
How can I tell others about The Animal Rescue Site?
Please feel free to use our e-card program to tell others about this great way to help feed and care for rescued animals — at no charge to you! For more great ideas, you can also visit our Free Ways to Help page!
While we encourage you to pass along the message of The Animal Rescue Site, we respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages promoting The Animal Rescue Site to people they do not know or post inappropriately to newsgroups or in other places. We understand that this is done with good intentions. However, anything regarded as unsolicited e-mail (spam) is not helping our cause but, in fact, is hurting it. Unsolicited e-mail can alienate people who might otherwise visit The Animal Rescue Site and help feed and care for rescued animals.
Can I link my Web site to The Animal Rescue Site?
Please do! Click here for instructions and artwork you can use.
We also encourage you to include The Animal Rescue Site's URL (http://www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com) in the signature of your outgoing e-mail messages.
Feel free to copy and paste the sample text below for use in your signature:
The Animal Rescue Site needs your help to feed and care for rescued animals living in shelters and sanctuaries! Help fund food and care for rescued animals every day with a simple click, at no cost to you. Visit http://www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com today!
How can I help The Animal Rescue Site find sponsors?
We appreciate your help in finding sponsors. The more sponsors we have, the more funding you will be able to generate for food and care for rescued animals each time you click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. For more information, please click here.
How can my organization apply for a grant in aid from The Animal Rescue Site?
At this time we do not offer a grant application process. All funding is contractually obligated to our current charitable partners. For a list of our charitable partners, please click here.
