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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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