OUR MISSION

1- ... that no pet owner be forced to choose inadequate treatment or euthanasia for their animal because of inability to pay for emergency medical care.
2- ... that people who receive financial help for a veterinary emergency be given the opportunity to return their gift by becoming mentors, by volunteering for VEFM, or by supporting the VEFM fund financially.
3- ... that it is the responsibility of both the local pet-owning and veterinary communities to make emergency care available--that this is not a national responsibility but a grass-roots responsibility.
4-... that the vision of VEFM will extend to communities all across the United States, possibly even the world.

Friday, March 6, 2009

The Certificate of Solicitation is Here....Now Fundraising Can Begin in Earnest!

I am very happy to report that today, VEFM's Certificate of Solicitation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts arrived in the mail. Without an official Certificate, we were very limited in the type and amount of fundraising we could do. Now we can really move forward. The last hurdle will be to achieve 501(C)(3) status as a nonprofit organization. In order to submit our application for this, we need $300. This is based upon the IRS regulation that organizations predicting that they will bring in less than $10,000 per year must submit $300 with their application. If we were predicting more than $10,000 per year, we would have to $750. Currently, we are not predicting more than $10,000 per year. If some wonderful benefactor gives us more than that, we will have ample opportunity to give the IRS whatever they want in addition! Although we are not required by the IRS to file for 501(C)(3) status until the 15th month after we were created (which was October, 2008), most organizations will not even consider sponsoring us until we are officially classified as a tax-exempt 501(C)(3) corporation. Since it will be hard to meet the needs of the people we want to help without the sponsorship of corporations, we see it as essential to achieve this status as soon as possible.

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UNTIL WE ARE SET UP TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS, PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS WHO MAY BE ABLE TO HELP:

CATS ONLY:

http://www.fveap.org/sys-tmpl/door/ --Calif. only; cats only;

http://www.catsincrisis.org/ --Cats only;

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DOGS ONLY:

http://www.labradorlifeline.org/ --Labs only

http://www.doberman911.org/index.html --Dobermans only

http://www.pbrc.net/fund/financial.html --Pit Bulls only
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DOGS OR CATS (OR OTHERS):

http://www.uan.org/index.cfm?navid=28http://www.pawssf.org/client_overview.html --Senior citizens only; San Francisco only;

http://www.help-a-pet.org/apply.htmlhttp://www.aahahelpingpets.org/http://www.petsamaritan.org/Medical/http://www.browndogfoundation.org/home --Tenn. only

http://www.myjakebrady.com/memorial_fund.shtmlhttp://www.saveuspets.org/about_saveuspets/info_pet_owners.html --N.J. only;

http://www.thepetfund.com/http://www.actorsandothers.com/emergencyhelp.html --Greater Los Angeles area only

http://www.ashleyfund.org/index.html --N. Carolina only

http://www.nysave.org/about.html --NYC only (5 boroughs)

http://www.bearenfoundation.org/funding.htm --Lane county, Oregon only

http://www.pgaa.com/animalhelp.html -- list of agencies that help injured animals

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