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MaxFund - its all about the animals
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I support the MaxFund and feel that it is great place for me to donate my precious free time as a volunteer. Given that, it is probably no surprise that I also feel that it would be an extremely worthy cause to receive the makeover funding from ZooToo.
In many ways the analysis is the same – whether it is someone committing time each week out of a busy schedule or committing a million bucks out of a tight budget – there are lots of options and you want to maximize having the most positive impact in an area that needs it. So I think looking at an organization’s volunteer structure is a very important indicator. Fundamentally, MaxFund is a surprisingly large and amazingly dedicated group of volunteers all trying to do what they can with what is available to do the most to improve the quality of life for dogs and cats.
“Its all about the animals” - This is the primary thing a new volunteer-recruit is told during orientation. And it shows. Over the years MaxFund has scraped together a modest facility and a small devoted staff. If a paint job or a new chair doesn’t matter to the animals, it clearly has gotten bumped off of the list. On the other hand, if a stray dog is brought in that requires expensive surgery… I have never seen any indication that cost issues impacted required treatment. For an organization that has done so much with so little for so long, I would be thrilled to see how things would be after receiving the makeover award.
