“The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.” ― Terri Guillemets To start off the New Year- we at Blackjack have put together a long list of goals. We believe these goals will better allow us to accomplish our main goal: saving more lives. We want to expand our team and foster network, both of which will help us to save more dogs.
If you can wish to join our team to help us accomplish these goals please email Rachel@blackjackrescue.org. |
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1. Grant writer(s) - We could use a grant writer or writers. This would help us hopefully get some funds for the everyday items we need and use. The grants can help our rescue and also allow us to pay it forward in the community to help control the pet population and keeping animals in their homes. |
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We would love to have some experienced people who are able to work and focus on grants take this project under their capable wings to help us expand our resources. If you aren't an experienced grant writer but have the time and would like to learn we can help you. |
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2. Fundraiser! - If we could have a person or small team working on fundraisers our need for asking for money all the time would greatly diminish. We may have more fun ways you can help support us throughout the year versus me asking and begging for funds. I'm sure you are just as sick of me asking for money just like I'm sick of asking for money. Fundraisers that help provide awesome incentives which hopefully draws more people into wanting to help. We have some ideas already but we would welcome other ideas. |
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3. Foster Network- I am grateful for how well our foster parents work together to accomplish saving lives. We can only save as many lives as we have foster homes. |
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Many times our foster homes are doubled and tripled up. We would like to ease the burden on them or help save more lives. Having more homes that can accept a foster dog will afford us the opportunity to accomplish those needs. Fostering is the most rewarding part of rescue. We have a small network and would love to expand our network to more cities and towns in more states. We would love to start making our name known and recognized as a rescue in local communities. By having a dedicated team of foster homes, it would go along ways to help create this. We offer our fosters support and are willing to help them anyway we can. |
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4. Transportation - We need to have a new plan for transport. Our current team is stretched thin and we could use more people working to get our new rescue pups to their foster homes. |
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This would involved working closely with our foster coordinator and our transportor. Another option is to have a group of volunteers who can donate their time to drive if we set up runs. This would involve setting up transport sheets or runs to get dogs from A to B ideally by the kindness of people. While we have many options to help get our dogs moved we do need someone to help us coordinate this effort. It will end up being a team effort most likely but we could use all hands on deck helping moving our dogs! If you can help either by being a transport coordinator or a driver please let us know. |
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5. Social media goals- over the past year we believe our Facebook followers grew by nearly 500. Our next big push this coming year will be to reach 6, 750 likes and followers on Facebook. We would like to be more engaged on both Twitter and Instagram as well. |
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We would love to be able to have a fund set aside to help some of our posts. Facebook often changes their algorithms to make it hard to reach our followers. Having a fund that we could use on occasion it would help us great reach those who have similar ideas of our mission. With your help, we will make 2018 our best year yet! Sharon Bryant
24/7 dog lover & Director of Blackjack Animal Rescue |
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We hope to bring about some new shirt designs and maybe some other fun ideas for the shop in 2018. Stay tuned. |
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Our 2018 Calendar is available! We had so many wonderful submissions- this calendar is packed full of dogs who are loved and spoiled. It is specifically designed for our Blackjack family. By ordering one of our calendars, you will be supporting our mission of saving dogs in need and you will get a wonderful calendar in return. |
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By shopping in our Blackjack shop you are directly helping dogs in need, and helping us pay for dogs in our care. We had a week in October, where we had multiple dogs sick, in different foster homes, which meant different vet’s offices were all being used; by supporting us through our shop you are helping us with our bills! I know it doesn’t sound like fun but we couldn’t be more grateful. |
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BLACKJACK ANIMAL RESCUE IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF THE FOLLOWING VOLUNTEERS: - FOSTER HOMES FOR PUPS(apply at blackjackrescue.org)
- GRANT WRITER (EXPERIENCE PREFERRED)
- FUNDRAISING/CORPORATE SPONSOR COORDINATOR
- AFFILIATE RESCUE COORDINATOR
- SPAY/NEUTER SCHEDULER/FOLLOW UP
- TRANSPORT COORDINATOR
If you have any questions about the volunteer opportunities or you can help us with any of the above, please let us know!
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Blackjack Foster GroupThis is a group for all of Blackjack Animal Rescue and Catahoula Connection's fosters to come together and share stories, pictures, problems and information as a community. We offer support and work together to solve any issues. |
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Blackjack Animal Rescue AdoptersThis group is dedicated to all of Blackjack Animal Rescue's many adopters throughout the years. Our foster families will be a part of this community and the adopters to provide support, understanding and any advice we can. This is a great way to find littermates nearby, or make new dog (and human) friends in your area! |
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