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ASPCA Supports Maine Anti-Abuse Group with $10,000 Grant

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 3:30pm

The ASPCA knows that when someone abuses an animal, there’s a good chance that person is hurting or will hurt a person, too. So the Linkage Project, a group that raises awareness of the deep connection between animal cruelty and other violence, is a program we can get behind. On Thursday, the ASPCA announced it is awarding $10,000 to help the Maine organization further its work.

“The ASPCA has long recognized the dangerous potential for animal cruelty to lead to more serious crimes,” says Dr. Randall Lockwood, ASPCA Senior Vice President of Forensic Sciences and Anti-Cruelty Projects. “Animal cruelty is not just an animal control or law enforcement problem—it is something that requires the skills and resources of many members of a community to respond to and prevent.”

The Linkage Project—a statewide coalition of animal control officers; health and human service representatives; law enforcement officials; and child, adult and animal welfare advocates—embraces that collaborative approach.

The ASPCA’s grant will help Linkage train Maine’s human- and animal-welfare workers and law enforcement officers to work together to stop violence against people and pets. The Linkage Project, a program of Youth Alternatives Ingraham in South Portland, also works to increase the capacity of communities to respond when children or adults see or commit animal abuse, including cases of hoarding and neglect.

The grant to the Linkage Project is one of roughly 550 the ASPCA awarded to groups all over the country in 2010. In all, the ASPCA gave out over $6 million in grants this year.

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ASPCA and PetSmart Charities® Pledge $5.2 Million to Humane Alliance

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 1:15pm

PetSmart Charities® and the ASPCA have pledged a combined $5.2 million to Humane Alliance, the North Carolina-based national leader in high-volume spay/neuter, to be distributed over the next five years. The grant will increase affordable spay/neuter services by funding the opening of 80 low-cost, high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter clinics across the United States. Combined with the nearly 70 Humane Alliance clinics already open, the clinics will provide up to 800,000 sustainable spay/neuter surgical slots, preventing an estimated 11 million cat and dog births through 2013.

Adoption alone will not solve the problem of pet overpopulation: an estimated 4 million pets are euthanized annually in the U.S. due to lack of homes. “Humane Alliance is the gold standard when it comes to successful high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter,” says Julie Morris, Senior Vice President of Community Outreach for the ASPCA. “Replicating its model program in cities across the country will help us to make real, measurable progress in the fight against pet homelessness and overpopulation.”

Humane Alliance’s National Spay/Neuter Response Team has already trained 79 organizations to open and operate low-cost, high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter clinics in those organizations’ home communities, and is always seeking new groups to mentor.

“PetSmart Charities and the ASPCA have been instrumental to the success of Humane Alliance,” says Humane Alliance Executive Director Quita Mazzina. “Our continued partnership means that we can continue to provide the spay/neuter services that pets desperately need, as well as training for the veterinary community, so that even more pets are sterilized every year.”

To learn what makes the Humane Alliance model so effective, visit humanealliance.org.

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Gulf Coast Animal Responders Receive $15,000 Grant from ASPCA

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 3:00pm

In the wake of the Gulf Coast oil spill, the ASPCA has donated $15,000 to the Texas Veterinary Medical Foundation (TVMF) in Austin, TX, to develop a detailed curriculum and training program for emergency animal responders in the Texas Gulf region. Established in 1978, TVMF is dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of animals through owner education programs, veterinary student scholarships and emergency funds, and continuing education programs.

“The ASPCA recognizes the importance of disaster preparedness and assembling the resources to assist animal victims of both natural and man-made disasters,” says Allison Cardona, Director of Operations for the ASPCA Field Investigations and Response Team. “We’re pleased to support the Texas Veterinary Medical Foundation’s efforts to create specially trained teams.”

TVMF will recruit a number of professionals in veterinary medicine, law enforcement, and the animal sheltering field who will receive training in disaster zone assessment, animal care and handling methods, and disaster response procedures.

“As we've seen with the Gulf Coast oil spill and Hurricane Ike, disasters will always happen,” says Kay Mayfield, Executive Director of Texas State Animal Resource Team (TxSART), the companion animal emergency management branch of the TVMF. “Through TxSART, we now have a united front to manage emergencies, and the creation of specialized and skilled response teams will improve our effectiveness.”

For more information about the ASPCA’s Emergency and Disaster Response Grant program, please visit our Grant section online.

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