Creative PAW: Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare

Below is a message from Second Chance Humane Society about their need for creative volunteers. Thanks so much for being a creativePAW member. I wish you much success in your creative endeavors in the new year!

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Dear Volunteer,

Thank you so much for your interest in volunteering your skills for animal rescue organizations and making a positive difference!

The current economic environment is certainly creating challenges for non-profits that rely upon the support of the communities they serve. We are seeing reduced donations and would love your help in several projects and fundraisers we are planning to generate additional needed funding. We are seeking volunteers to help in the following areas:

- Logo design for new fundraising events

- PR & marketing support

- produce a “facelift” for our Newsletter

- create a new T-shirt design

Second Chance Humane Society is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that achieves its mission (below) through the operation of a shelter and foster care program for dogs and cats. In operation since 1994, we service over 2 Counties in Southwest Colorado and operate a number of community outreach programs such as Spay/Neuter Financial Assistance, Feral Cat, Mobile Adoption, Animal Assisted Therapy, and Education and Prevention.

The Mission of Second Chance Humane Society is to fulfill upon the vision of loving homes for all pets through temporarily sheltering, nurturing, and treating orphaned pets until quality homes are secured, while additionally decreasing pet overpopulation through the promotion of responsible pet ownership and the human-animal bond.

Thank you for considering, please contact me if you are interested or would like more information.

Kelly Goodin
Executive Director
Second Chance Humane Society
PO Box 2096
Ridgway, CO 81432
970.626.2273
kelly@secondchancehumanesociety.org
www.secondchancehumanesociety.org

Dear creativePAW volunteers:

Thanks once again for belonging to Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare, and for offering your creative skills to animals in need!

We have a new request for volunteers from the Friends of Philly Zoo Elephants (FPZE). FPZE is a local grassroots group formed in 2005 to help rescue the elephants confined in the Philadelphia Zoo. Among other things, FPZE raises awareness of the problems associated with keeping elephants in captivity by visiting classrooms, providing information to the media, and holding public outreach events. One elephant, Dulary, was rescued in 2007 and permanently transferred to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. Another elephant, Petal, died in June 2008. The two surviving elephants, Kallie and Bette, remain confined in the same 1940’s-era barren enclosure.

Marianne of FPZE writes:

I’d LOVE it if you could send out an email asking if anyone would like to volunteer for any of the following current projects for my group, Friends of Philly Zoo Elephants:

(1) Buttons – we have a template and some designs, but we could really some new and improved ones.

(2) Poster – we would like to have a few new posters to use at our outreach events. Among other things, we would like to have one comparing the different geographic dimensions of various spaces – e.g. 42 acres for the zoo, 2,700 acres for the sanctuary, and 5 miles for the wild. I’m not sure exactly how this would look, but I’m thinking each would be superimposed on the other. Another poster idea would be comparing a breeding facility to a sanctuary. We have rough drafts for all of these things.

(3) Flyers – we have a flyer, but we could use a professional editor to critique.

(4) Postcards/small leave-behind cards – we’d like to have a small card to give out in edition to the flyer with a snazzy photo and a few quick facts.

If you’re an artist, graphic designer, or editor interested in lending a creative hand to this organization, please e-mail Marianne at friendsofphillyzooelephants@gmail.com.

Thanks again for all you do for the animals!

Thank you so much for volunteering with creativePAW! In the last few months, creativePAW volunteers have helped the All Breed Rescue Network and Reach Out for Animal Rights with their newsletter and website. The orgs, the animals, and I appreciate the work you’re doing!

Here’s another project:

PAWS is looking for a creativePAW web designer to revamp their website. PAWS is a nonprofit organization based in Norwalk, Connecticut, dedicated to rescuing homeless animals and placing them in loving new homes.

Here’s a note from PAWS on what they’re looking for:

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1) You have to drill through several pages just to find the pets for
adoption. We are making it harder for people to see the pets.

2) The endless scrolling down the store page is a pain. Store layout needs to be improved.

3) We should go to more of a sectioned home page – Blocks for pets, donations, news, events etc.

4) Our navigation buttons at the top are every limited & people have trouble finding the links to other areas of the site because they are buried in type at the bottom of the page.

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If you’re a web designer interested in volunteering for PAWS, please contact:

Ilona Zimmer
PAWS
504 Main Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06851
(203) 216-2034 cell
ilona@pawsct.org
http://www.pawsct.org

Thanks so much, and happy holidays!