Financial Assistance Resources
If your animal shelter or rescue is looking for funding to meet its goals, the resources below can help.
Grant Listings
- Financial assistance opportunties compiled by The Humane Society of the United States
- For pet owners from The HSUS: Having Trouble Affording Your Pet? and Having Trouble Affording Veterninary Care? web pages provide comprehensive lists of funding sources
Guidelines and Tips
- Tips for animal care organizations facing economic hardship
- "How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal" from Animal Sheltering magazine
- Network for Good online fundraising and non-profit marketing, including free webinars
- Unique and creative fundraising tips from humanefundraising.com
- About.com's guide for non-profit charitable organizations
- The Foundation Center's guide for non-profit grant-seekers
- Fundraising Ideas and Products Center
- Fundraising resources, including grantwriting tips and links to online foundations, by Fundsnet Services
- Non-profit fundraising and grantwriting, from Free Management Library
Online Fundraising Tools
More Information
- Archive of Animal Sheltering magazine's fundraising content
- Animal Sheltering magazine's marketing ideas, including coverage of unique and creative fundraising efforts
- PetSmart Charities archive of fundraising webinars and forms
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