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Program for Tuesday, Oct 4,2016, 2016
There is no scheduled speaker for Tuesday, Oct 4. President Craig Brown will hold a Club Assembly instead.
Member Meeting Assignments
Date
Who Am I?
Rotary Minute
10/4/16
Rick Coburn
Sue Herndon
10/11/16
Bob Davie
Pete Jackson
The member assigned to Who Am I is also responsible for providing the positive thought at the beginning of the meeting and introducing visiting Rotarians and guests.
The member assigned to Rotary Minute is the assigned Greeter for that day and also is tasked with selling opportunity drawing tickets.
At our meeting on September 27, Heather Ray, our International chairperson, introduced Jelena Starcevic from Belgrade, Serbia. She has been accepted into the Master's degree program in Peace and Justice Studies at the University of San Diego Kroc School of Peace Studies for the academic year 2016-2017. Although the La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club has provided the funding for Jelena, Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary has been designated as her host club. This means that we will be following Jelena's progress as she attends her classes in the months ahead. Heather Ray is the primary contact for Jelena during her stay in San Diego.
To learn more about Jelena, read the personal statement she submitted as part of her application to be selected for this peace scholarship.
Brian Daugherty of the San Diego Humane Society (the SD Humane Society) spoke at the RB Sunrise Rotary breakfast meeting on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Brian is Senior Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer and is responsible for raising funds to enable the SD Humane Society to take care of homeless animals in the community.
Brian started by talking about what the SD Humane Society does and the scope of services it offers. It is a whole lot more than cute kittens and puppy dogs. The SD Humane Society does massive amount of work, not only rescuing and taking care of homeless animals but also abiding by the “Getting to Zero” campaign of zero euthanasia for healthy and treatable animals, as part of the San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition, County Animal Services, and six other animal sheltering organizations in the region. San Diego County became the first and only place in the country to achieve this result. This makes San Diego County one of the pet-safest communities in the nation by finding homes for all healthy and treatable animals.
The SD Humane Society also has a law enforcement operation that was involved with over 10,000 cases last year, which gives animals a second chance of life.
What is taking place on a national level is that shelters are getting older dogs with medical conditions, and/or with behavior issues, and hold onto them for a longer period of time. There are 7.6 million animals that enter 13,000 shelters in a year, with 2.7 million of those 7.6 million animals being euthanized. Some shelters have a 30%, 40%, or even 50% euthanasia rate.
The SD Humane Society is one of the largest in the United States and is an industry leader nationally regarding euthanasia. In San Diego County, there are 48,000 animals that enter shelters, with the SD Humane Society taking in 18,000 of those 48,000 animals. Staying at zero euthanasia happens in San Diego County by shelters transferring animals to other shelters that can take care of instead of euthanizing them. Animals that were transferred to the SD Humane Society from other San Diego shelters were 3600 in 2014-2015
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Total admissions last year at the SD Humane Society were 17,620, with 15,910 animals finding a new home. There were 5,452 kittens admitted to the kitten nursery, and 578 animals received specialized training in the behavior center, which is only one of two in the entire country. The total number of pet families impacted through the PAWS program was 9,662. The PAWS program provides support services that help low income individuals keep their animals in their home by providing meals. The total number of Project Wildlife patients were 10,338, which serves any animals, except for the mountain lion, by working to rehabilitate and release them back into the wild.
The SD Humane Society has a strategic plan of spay/neutering animals. Last year, there were a total of 5,600 animals that were spay/neutered and the SD Humane Society’s goal is to get to 15,000.
The SD Humane Society is looking at programs to make them more accessible, including:
Growing influence in San Diego County by expanding the spay/neuter services, make information on the SD Humane Society programs and services more accessible, grow its San Diego Welfare Coalition and regional relationships, and participate in a statewide advocacy group.
Building areas of distinction – the SD Humane Society has the only kitten nursery nationally, has only 1 of 2 behavior centers in the nation, and has the only Project Wildlife program in the nation.
Support the current and future San Diego Humane Society by supporting operations and communities with current information and data services technology, plan for new and updated facilities, and launch comprehensive fundraising campaigns.
The Escondido, Oceanside and San Diego branches transfer and foster animals. There are 900-1600 animals in the SD Humane Society’s care on any given day, and costs $45,000 a day to pay for this animal care, which excludes salaries.
The San Diego Humane Society is a stand-alone organization and is not connected with the Humane Society of the United States or ASCPA national programs.
Last week, Gordy sent the Sponsorship Form and event Fact Sheet to you. Click the links below to get the Sponsorship Tools.
One tool is a "cover letter" that you can customize by adding your contacts name and address (open and look at it!! You will see what I mean) for all your friends, family members, neighbors & business owners in the area that you are emailing or mailing the sponsorship requests to.
Other tools are two versions of the "Sponsorship Form" and event "Fact Sheet" for you - one is both documents combined into (1) 3-page document, and then in case you want to print some - the same documents are attached a two separate documents. (Just in case you lost that last email)
Our goal is to raise $75,000+ this year. That is 50% more than last year. We have more Rotarians this year than last year, and the event has growing momentum... With the event being moved to Webb Park we will be establishing a phenomenal annual event for our community. It should be easier than ever for you to bring in those Sponsors!!
Remember, the best way to get more sponsors is to ASK. In person and by phone, you never know which one of the people you interact with each day is just waiting for the opportunity to participate.
Thanks in advance - this years BEERnardo will be the best yet!!
Let us know if you can think of something that will help us all promote this event and find this years Sponsors.
