Shelter Resources
Welcome, animal rescue shelters and organizations! We are delighted to introduce The All-Star Animal Rescue Site $100,000 Shelter+ Challenge - together with Petfinder.com! This is a new opportunity for your organization to win grants of $1,000 to $10,000 to help your shelter do what it does best — help rescue, care for, and find loving homes for animals. We've provided several resources for you for this very purpose, and we encourage you to take the initiative!
*Click here for detailed rules & conditions. *Click here for our list of frequently asked questions.
Most Heartwarming Story Prize!
Participating Petfinder.com member organizations can post their stories on The Animal Rescue Site. One story submitted during each month of the Challenge will be chosen by The Animal Rescue Site to win a new prize: Most Heartwarming Story.
The purpose of the Most Heartwarming Story Contest is to highlight the wonderful work done by rescue groups and shelters in finding forever homes for pets. We want to hear your success stories: how you found a home for a pet, how a volunteer came through to be a foster family, how an animal found love with a new owner, or some other appropriate story with a happy, heartwarming ending.
To be eligible, your story must be submitted by a representative of your organization. One original story per month per organization, please (resubmitting the same story over and over again will not improve your chances). Be sure to include the exact shelter name as registered with Petfinder.com, as well as the state or province and hometown of your shelter or rescue organization. (If outside the U.S. and Canada, please list your country too!)
Please keep in mind that we are hoping to highlight the wonderful work you do in a way that is acceptable to our audience. Stories that contain graphic descriptions of pain, abuse, injury, or neglect are not appropriate for this contest and will be removed from the site. Share your story today, and your shelter could win a $2,000 grant to help animals!
More Outreach Opportunities!
Below you will find a variety of fun ways including a customizable poster, cute graphics, and special links
to get your supporters involved! You will also find customizable copy
for use on your website, e-mails to your supporters, or press releases. Distribute as you see fit! Please feel free to modify this material to best suit your desired format and audience.
Finally, the staff at The Animal Rescue Site wishes you and your organization the best of luck. Thank you for participating, and thank you for all the hard work you do for rescued animals. We hope to see you at the finish line!
Print Poster or Flyer
This downloadable poster in Word can be customized as a display or make it into a flyer to pass out to your supporters. Encourage local businesses to post this or have friends distribute at community events.
After downloading the Word document, open it in Word and set View to "print layout" in order to see flyer and artwork. If you do not have Word installed on your computer, check your normal word processing software to see if it can open a Word doc or ask a friend if they can open a copy on their computer.
Link to Us From Your Website!
Please feel free to link to The Animal Rescue Site from your Website, blog, e-mail signature, company intranet, or wiki. Or you can link to us from your Facebook or MySpace pages!
To link to us from your own website, simply follow the instructions below for either graphic or text links:
Graphical Links
· Copy ALL the code in the text box below.
· Paste the code into your web page's HTML.
· Code is editable for custom applications.
· Copy ALL the code in the text box below.
· Paste the code into your web page's HTML.
· Code is editable for custom applications.
· Copy ALL the code in the text box below.
· Paste the code into your web page's HTML.
· Code is editable for custom applications.
Text Link
To use this text link, copy and paste ALL the code in the text field below onto your page. Code and copy are customizable.
Customizable copy for your website and/or outgoing communications:
Clip and paste the following into an e-mail to your supporters or adapt it into a press release for your local media!
Help [Your Organization's Name] win a $10,000 grant!
[Custom Greeting]
Vote for us at www.theanimalrescuesite.com and we could win $10,000 to help pets in need.
The Animal Rescue Site is hosting a special challenge for eligible Petfinder.com member shelter and rescue groups. The grand prize is a $10,000 grant, and they will be awarding many other grants to rescue groups with the most votes — a total of $100,000 in grants for animal welfare organizations.
Think how many animals we could help for $10,000!
Help us win! All you have to do is click to help rescued animals, and then vote in The Animal Rescue Site $100,000 Shelter+ Challenge. Both of these actions are absolutely free! You can vote once a day, every day, from May 17th through August 22nd, 2010. Every time you vote, or tell a friend to vote, you are making a huge difference for us.
Vote today!
Visit: www.theanimalrescuesite.com[Tell More About Your Organization — who are you? What do you do? Give some facts about how many pets you help every year and be sure to add information about ways people can help you: pet food drives, how to make a donation directly to your organization, where to find information on Petfinder.com about adoptable pets, etc.]
The Animal Rescue Site is a "Click to Give" website. You can click on a button to help fund food and care for animals. It's free, and only takes a second of your time. Click every day!
Petfinder.com is an online, searchable database of animals that need homes, and a directory of approximately 13,000 animal shelters and adoption organizations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Looking for other ways to involve your local media or community? Invite a photographer to take pictures of the pets up for adoption and make sure copies are sent to your local newspaper. Some shelters took pictures of people or pets clicking on a computer keyboard to send to the media. Many papers can take high resolution jpgs (300 dpi) via e-mail; check their websites for an editor's name or other contacts. Perhaps a volunteer can make a YouTube video and post a link on your site (this is an excellent project for high school or college students wanting to help). This can then be shared by your supporters via their e-mail or websites.
Remember, The Animal Rescue Site $100,000 Shelter+ Challenge with Petfinder.com lasts from May 17th through August 22nd, 2010. Check back in with your local media and supporters throughout the Challenge. Make this an opportunity to discuss the ongoing needs of your organization and heighten awareness of what you do in your community.
Thank you, and don't forget to click to help rescued animals every day!
