Creative PAW: Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare

Hi, creativePAW Volunteers! I have three requests for creative volunteers this time. As a side note, I’d like to mention that I’ve worked with one of our requesters, Journey Ewell of Manchester NH Animal Shelter, at her feral cat spay/neuter clinics. She is very dedicated to helping animals.

If you think you can help any of these animal welfare organizations, please e-mail them via the e-mail addresses listed.

Also, please do spread the word about Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare. We need more volunteers, especially web designers and PR and marketing professionals.

Thanks so much for being a volunteer!

Linda
Founder, creativePAW

http://www.creativepaw.org

http://www.writeformagazines.com

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1. Animal Care for Artists Seeks Volunteer PR Professional & Marketing Professional

2. Animal Adoption League Seeks Volunteer Graphic Designer, Proofreader & Writer

3. Manchester NH Animal Shelter Seeks Volunteer Web Designer

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1. Animal Care for Artists Seeks Volunteer PR Professional & Marketing Professional

Organization:
Animal Care for Artists

Organization’s website:
www.animalcareforartists.org

Description of organization:
We assist low income artists with their veterinary costs for their companion animals. This includes preventative care and spay/neuter. We have also facilitated food, medication, and supply donations. We are based in Los Angeles but are happy to offer our services to any artist meeting the qualification throughout the United States. We are a 501c3 volunteer only based group.

Description of your project:
We need assistance with PR and marketing in order to form relationships with businesses, organizations, and individuals so as to sustain some form of regular donation influx. We are supported only by donations and have a large number of artists who would like to take advantage of our services and have animals in need.

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
marketingprofessional, PRprofessional, other

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Laura Menck

Email of person volunteer should contact:
lmenck@animalcareforartists.org

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2. Animal Adoption League Seeks Volunteer Graphic Designer, Proofreader & Writer

Organization:
Animal Adoption League

Organization’s website:
www.mynextpet.com

Description of organization:
We are an all-volunteer Animal Rescue Group serving the greater Charlotte Metro area. Our animals are kept in Foster Homes and at any given time, we have approximately 75+ available for adoption. Primarily, we get our animals via people needing to relinquish them, strays that our members and community finds along with animals taken out of high kill shelters. Spay & Neuter Programs and Transportation to Rescues in the North where there are shortages of dogs/puppies are a big part of the Animal Adoption League’s Mission.

Description of your project:
We need help doing a newsletter! The Animal Adoption League has always had a newsletter we try to send out a couple times a year. It’s called Paw Prints. We’ve lost the person(s) who used to do it and now we haven’t sent one out in almost a year. We would provide the stories, content and pictures . . . we would need someone who can put it together, help with editing and make it look good. This is something that’s important to the Animal Adoption League and we feel we’re missing out on donations right now because we haven’t had a newsletter. Any help – even a template to get us started – would be huge. THANK YOU!!!

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
graphicdesigner, proofreader, writer

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Karen Hjerpe

Email of person volunteer should contact:
Karen_Hjerpe@yahoo.com

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3. Manchester NH Animal Shelter Seeks Volunteer Web Designer

Organization:
Manchester NH Animal Shelter

Organization’s website:
www.manchesteranimalshelter.org

Description of organization:
We are an animal shelter in Manchester NH. We are a no kill shelter. We also have many community programs that we offer the public to help with their pets and to lessen the strays that come into the shelter.

Description of your project:
We need a new website!!!

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
webdesigner

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Journey Ewell

Email of person volunteer should contact:
Jfc95@aol.com

Hi, creativePAW Volunteers!

I try not to send volunteer requests on the weekend, but this week I had a house full of guests AND I’ve been sick! We have six requests this time, and I’ll be sending another e-mail out with a few more requests early next week.

If you think you can help any of these animal welfare orgs, please contact them via the e-mail addresses listed.

Also, please do ask any other creative professionals you know to join creativePAW at http://www.creativepaw.org! We’re especially in need of web designers and PR/marketing people as those seem to be the most popular requests.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Linda Formichelli
Founder, Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare

http://www.creativepaw.org

http://www.writeformagazines.com

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1. Desert Paws Seeks Volunteer Marketing Professional & PR Professional

2. Wild Cat Haven Seeks Volunteer Web Designer

3. Tender Mercy Equine Rescue Seeks Volunteer Marketing Professional & PR Professional

4. Kinship Circle Seeks Volunteer Media Consultant

5. The Aurelia Center for Animals and Cultural Change Seeks Volunteer Proficient in Microsoft Excel

6. Bark Avenue Foundation Seeks Volunteer Web Designer

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1. Desert Paws Seeks Volunteer Marketing Professional & PR Professional

Organization:
Desert Paws

Organization’s website:
www.desertpaws.org

Description of organization:
Our mission is to educate people about animal welfare issues and to encourage compassion and respect for all living creatures. We are based in Palm Springs, CA and each month we sponsor a full-page ad in the local paper featuring adoptable dogs and cats from many area shelters. Our big goal is to build an education center, as you will see in the website. However, our immediate project is described below.

Description of your project:
The 2010 Desert Paws Conference – Power and Action for Animals. This will take place on Oct 9 2010 in Newport Beach, CA. It will feature lectures by nationally known figures in various aspects of animal welfare. More details are on the website. We are requesting that you help promote this exciting event. We have an event planner, and a good database, but you probably have contacts who would like to attend whom we would otherwise not reach. Thank you very much!

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
marketingprofessional, PRprofessional

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Peter Spiegel

Email of person volunteer should contact:
speegull@gmail.com

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2. Wild Cat Haven Seeks Volunteer Web Designer

Organization:
WildCat Haven, Inc.

Organization’s website:
www.wildcathaven.org

Description of organization:
We are a captive born wildcat sanctuary that provides a lifetime home for abused, neglected and surrendered animals. As a true sanctuary, we do not, buy, sell, breed or exhibit our animals. We provide a lifetime home, with large natural enclosures, a wholesome diet and the best vet care as needed.

Description of your project:
We are looking for someone to help us re-create our website for a more modern look including slideshows and such.

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
webdesigner

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Cheryl Tuller

Email of person volunteer should contact:
catwch@gmail.com

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3. Tender Mercy Equine Rescue Seeks Volunteer Marketing Professional & PR Professional

Organization:
Tender Mercy Equine Rescue

Organization’s website:
www.tendermercyrescue.com

Description of organization:
We are a small non profit 501c3 organization dedicated to helping abused, abandoned, neglected and slaughterbound horses. We have been 501c3 since 2001 and did private rescue for a year prior to our non profit coming through.

Description of your project:
We are in great need of help with fundraising and things such as marketing/PR. Due to the downturn in the economy, donations have nearly dried up (yet demand for horses needing help has more than doubled) and we have run out of ideas to try to raise much needed funding to continue to help the horses.

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
marketingprofessional, PRprofessional, other

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Amy Stockman

Email of person volunteer should contact:
cripleridge@wnyip.net

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4. Kinship Circle Seeks Volunteer Media Consultant

Organization: Kinship Circle

Website:

http://www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/

Kinship Circle — a 501c3 animal advocacy group with a specialized animal disaster aid faction — is presently deployed to the Gulf Oil Spill, in an investigative capacity to document oil-affected animals and alert Unified Command where they are. Although animal rescue groups (other than a handful of organizations authorized under Unified Command) currently do not have access into restricted zones, we are part of unique project.

Kinship Circle was asked to “embed” with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tom McPhee for his All Eyes On The Gulf (AEOTG) expedition. Our animal disaster responders are on the ground to focus camera lenses and notepads on contaminated parts of Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. AEOTG is a scientific tour to collect visual records. It’s also a window to the truth. As part of AEOTG’s crew of filmmakers and photojournalists, Kinship Circle may deploy teams through August, as funds permit.

Description of your project:
WE ARE SEEKING SOMEONE TO:

* Distribute our press releases to national broadcast and print media.
* Follow-up with the press.
* Possibly write PSAs and other soundbite type messaging for social media such as Twitter.
* Possibly help coordinate interviews.
* Ultimately become a liaison between Kinship Circle and the press.

We need someone flexible, as the nature of disaster response is ever changing. This person’s media role may expand, if he or she is open to that. At a minimum, we need someone to assemble and circulate our press releases. Brenda, a writer herself, will create the press releases and provide a framework for any additional writing.

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Kate Danaher, Kinship Circle Social Media Director:
katedanaher@animalearthhuman.org

Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle Executive Director:
info@kinshipcircle.org or disasteraid@kinshipcircle.org

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5. The Aurelia Center for Animals and Cultural Change Seeks Volunteer Proficient in Microsoft Excel

Organization:
The Aurelia Center for Animals and Cultural Change

Organization’s website:
n/a

Description of organization:
At the Aurelia Center we use scholarship to help create a positive change in how we view other animals and in our relationships to them. We are a new non-profit organization.

Description of your project:
We are looking for someone who is experienced with Microsoft Excel to create a mailing list from information in files we have compiled from a foundation directory. We will be using this list to send brochures and letters of introduction to various foundations/individuals on the list.

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
editor, marketingprofessional, other

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Lori Marino

Email of person volunteer should contact:
lmarino@emory.edu

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6. Bark Avenue Foundation Seeks Volunteer Web Designer

Organization:
Bark Avenue Foundation

Organization’s website:

http://www.barkavenuefoundation.org

Description of organization:
The Bark Avenue Foundation is a nonprofit 501c3 organization committed to significantly reducing pet overpopulation through spay/neuter, humane education, rescue and re-homing and community outreach. Because of LA’s cultural diversity as well as the myriad of languages and cultural beliefs, we find it is critical to do aggressive spay/neuter outreach in order to address the pet overpopulation crisis in our city.

Los Angeles has been identified as one of the cities having the highest euthanasia rates in the country. With the current economic crisis, people are being forced to abandon their beloved pets at a record rate. These two situations challenge us to urgently address every opportunity to save animals lives through Bark Avenue Foundations programs and outreach.

Our goal is to serve as a community resource for people (and their animals) in underserved areas in the greater Los Angeles area. We specifically chose to locate in South LA, not far from Skid Row, the USC Campus and the industrial neighborhoods south of downtown. By being in close proximity to the people and animals that need us most, we are able to be a visible and viable community resource for them and are able to provide spay/neuter information, spay/neuter access, and information on humane education, vaccinations, proper nutrition and proper pet care.

Description of your project:
Our website needs a facelift! Needs to be more user friendly, visually and navigational. All around updated. With a more user friendly site, more people who visit our site are apt to look around longer, and hopefully adopt one of our loving animals into THEIR loving home. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
webdesigner

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Stephanie

Email of person volunteer should contact:
barkavenuefoundation@gmail.com

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Dear creativePAW volunteers:

We have so many requests for volunteers this week (11 so far) that I’m going to split the requests up into two mailings this week so that each org gets a good chance to have their request read.

Since I compiled our volunteers onto this single list I have only around 120 people signed on — down from close to 2,000 before! So please do tell your friends who are web designers, writers, marketing professionals, photographers, and other creative professionals to sign on. Thanks so much — and thank YOU for being a volunteer!

Linda
Founder, Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare
http://www.creativepaw.org
Write for Magazines: http://www.writeformagazines.com

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1. HOPE Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic Seeks Volunteer Graphic Designer & Web Designer

2. CATS-CAN, Inc. Seeks Volunteer Marketing Professional, Photographer & Web Designer

3. Hancock co Animal Shelter-Ky Seeks Volunteer Web Designer, Graphic Designer & Marketing Professional

4. Mt. Olive Trap-Neuter-Return Project Seeks Volunteer Photographer in NJ

5. St. Croix Animal Welfare Center Seeks Volunteer Web Designer & Marketing Professional

6. Midwest Animal Rescue & Services Seeks Volunteer Writer, Videographer, Graphic Designer & More

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1. HOPE Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic Seeks Volunteer Graphic Designer & Web Designer

Organization:
HOPE Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic

Organization’s website:
www.hopespayneuterclinic.org

Description of organization:
HOPE for Animals is a 501c3 animal welfare group dedicating to eliminating unnecessary euthanasia of pets.

Through HOPE’s Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic, we are offering sterilization and vaccinations to those who could otherwise not afford it for their pets.

Description of your project:
We need help improving our website and we need a vector made of our logo.

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
graphicdesigner, webdesigner

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Madeleine Laird, Executive Director

Email of person volunteer should contact:
madeleine@hopespayneuterclinic.org

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2. CATS-CAN, Inc. Seeks Volunteer Marketing Professional, Photographer & Web Designer

Organization:
CATS-CAN, Inc.

Organization’s website:
www.cats-can.org

Description of organization:
We are a non-profit 501(c)3 organization in the Orlando area that provides adoption, humane care, education and spay/neuter services in our area. Our primary focus is stray and feral cats.

Description of your project:
We are in need of marketing and PR support including website design and fundraising guidance. We could also you a photographer to take some photos of our adoptables.

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
marketingprofessional, photographer, webdesigner

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Audrey Posocco

Email of person volunteer should contact:
audrey_lp@hotmail.com

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3. Hancock co Animal Shelter-Ky Seeks Volunteer Web Designer, Graphic Designer & Marketing Professional

Organization:
Hancock co Animal Shelter-Ky

Organization’s website:
www.petfinder.com/ky317

Description of organization:
County Animal Shelter

I took the job about a year ago and I am trying to turn the public’s opinion around about animal shelters in general . We had a very bad situation here but within a year we have a brand new shelter and we rarely have to put any dog to sleep. We get most of our dogs into rescues and our adoptions have skyrocketed. My goal is to educate the public on the good animal shelters and rescues and most importantly info about spay/neuter. we are starting from the ground up in all areas and need help in the worst way. Can you help?

Description of your project:
I have the nuts and bolts started but need help,

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
graphicdesigner, marketingprofessional, webdesigner

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Lisa McCormick

Email of person volunteer should contact:
lisamcc@bellsouth.net

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4. Mt. Olive Trap-Neuter-Return Project Seeks Volunteer Photographer in NJ

Organization:
Mt. Olive TNR Project and Netcong TNR Project

Organization’s website:
www.mtolivetnr.org

Description of organization:
We do Trap-Neuter-Return in Mt. Olive Township (Mt. Olive is in Morris County in NW Jersey) and some surrounding towns and also remove all cats impounded by Mt. Olive when their time is up. We usually have 10-30 cats and kittens in foster care for adoption. We have a Petfinder website and our own website, and monthly adoption days.

We are a subproject of the Animal Protection League of NJ, formerly NJARA.

Description of your project:
We need a photographer to take good pictures of our cats and kittens in foster care, for our website. As you can see by looking at the adoptable cats on our website, most of the photos are pretty terrible. We think we can increase adoptions if we can just get better photos.

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
photographer

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Michelle Lerner

Email of person volunteer should contact:
mtolivetnr@gmail.com

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5. St. Croix Animal Welfare Center Seeks Volunteer Web Designer & Marketing Professional

Organization:
St. Croix Animal Welfare Center

Organization’s website:
www.StCroixAWC.org

Description of organization:
non profit animal shelter in St. Croix US Virgin Islands

Description of your project:
Need help building a Squidoo lens
Could also use help with increasing marketing of off island adoptions

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
webdesigner, marketingprofessional

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Gretchen Sherrill

Email of person volunteer should contact:
communications@stcroixawc.org

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6. Midwest Animal Rescue & Services Seeks Volunteer Writer, Videographer, Graphic Designer & More

Organization:
Midwest Animal Rescue & Services

Organization’s website:
www.midwestanimalrescue.org

Description of organization:
Midwest Animal Rescue & Services (MARS) is an all breed animal rescue organization with approximately 250 to 300 animals in the system at any given time. Our rescued furry friends live in foster homes, as family members, until the day they go to their forever homes.

Our focus is on at-risk animals in the animal control impound system who are often overlooked by either the local adoptive public or other rescue organizations and who have a death date stamped on their paperwork. MARS is entering our fourth fiscal year and has adopted out over 3,000 animals all while maintaining a debt free status with 95% of our income coming from adoption fees.

Description of your project:
We are entering this fiscal year with the goals of revamping our organization to truly reflect our energy and enthusiasm as well as begin marketing our branding to the general public.

We desperately need to remake our physical presence, both online and in person, while interacting with the media. Our website needs a complete make over as do our marketing materials. We would like to create a cohesive look so that the website, marketing materials and offices reflect the same branding.

We would also like to expand and create videos to provide an engaging educational piece to our website.

Thank you for considering us!

Kinds of volunteers you’re looking for:
graphicdesigner, marketingprofessional, PRprofessional, videographer, webdesigner, writer

Name of person volunteer should contact:
Susan Bates

Email of person volunteer should contact:
midwestanimalrescue@gmail.com

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