Non-Profit Animal Rescue - advice

[jclaiborne]

So I know you are focused on the name, which is fine, but the name would be the least of my worries at this point, I know there are tons of grants out there, but the statement "a little startup money out of pocket at first" is what raised my eyebrows. Even if this isn't the advice you want to hear it needs to be put out there, from a rescue, non-profit stand point, grants will not be enough and you will constantly be putting in money out of pocket. I dedicate my time with an all volunteer rescue that has been going for 10 years. Everyone up to the founder works full time, and volunteers their off time to the rescue, we generally at any given time have 17 dogs in our care. The amount of money spent on 17 dogs with vet bills, boarding, adoption events, food, etc. is enormous. You just need to be ready for the realization that you are not talking about a little money out of pocket, our biggest fundraiser every year is a 5K charity run. We raised 21K dollars, that will last us 1 month.