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Old March 15th 06, 10:40 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.rescue
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Default Advice sought on rescuing a failing greyhound rescue organization

My wife and I would like to work on behalf of greyhounds. She joined
the local rescue group and found a recurring pattern of the most
helpful workers being driven out by the "pack leader" who'd started the
group. This seems to be all too common. If a group is formed to
rescue dogs, one person dominates and protects his/her turf by
discouraging the ideas and efforts of others.
Since a group that intends to kennel dogs needs reliable help to
provide care as well as folks to raise funds, publish newsletters, and
to write thankyou notes to contributors, it seems that only two common
paths open up. One is to hire a professional administrator and staff
who can run facilities and fundraise effectively, which necessitates a
substantial endowment and regular professional fundraising. And the
other is to only foster dogs and not try to run a kennel in order to
substantially reduce operating cost. We're hoping to find a third
alternative under which board members would lend their reputations and
administrative skills to co-ordinating activities while volunteers
would carry on most of the activities including dog care, kennel
maintenace, fundraising, community support and all the other jobs
needed to make a sucessful overall effort on behalf of the dogs. Such
an alternative would have to preclude strong arm politics by founders
in order to keep everyone's eyes focused on the objectives and to
prevent the best workers from becoming discouraged and leaving.
Any input from sucessful groups on how to structure such an
organization would be greatly appreciated. We're not in a position to
jump in and clean up after the local group falls apart (likely in the
next couple of months) unless we have enough moral support from other
groups to allow us to believe that we can pull it off and tempt many of
the former members of the local organization to come back on board.
Not only are we faced with a total collapse of the local organization,
but the lease on the existing kennel is soon to run out and renewal
isn't possible, so we'd either have to resort to ONLY foster homes for
the remaining dogs or conduct a crash fundraising effort to raise
enough money to buy or lease a suitable space.
Both I and my wife work more than full time and no one is beating down
the doors with endowment offers. we're willing to bring out skills and
drive to bear on re-consituting the organization but only if we feel we
are likely to succeed. We're open to any and all suggestions on how to
pull this off. Please pass this note around to anyone you think might
have useful suggestions and experience to help us in our mission to
save as many area dogs as possible.

 




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