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How effectively can you explain yourself to others? Learn to embrace the healthy challenge of describing your beliefs to sharpen your thinking and worldview.
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The new Charity Navigator scores have been released — and not only has Austin Pets Alive! maintained our 4-star rating for the 6th year running (the most number of stars that can be awarded), but our overall score has increased from 95% to 99.2%, our highest score yet!
Charity Navigator is one of the nation’s most trusted nonprofit ratings organizations, measuring nonprofits’ effectiveness and reliability so that donors can feel confident about their giving decisions.
The percentage of our expenses spent on programs remains high, at just over 74%, which is one of the reasons many donors trust us when giving.
We received a perfect 100 score in the Accountability & Finance category. Charity Navigator’s assessment also shows that we spend just $0.15 in fundraising expenses for each dollar raised, which is another excellent indicator of how we use our funds.
Our score was 92 in the Culture & Community pillar, and 100 again in Leadership & Adaptability.
APA! saves the lives of 12,000 pets per year, who come through our Austin shelter — and countless more with our outreach to animals and organizations throughout Texas and the country.
We couldn’t save these deserving lives, without the collaboration of our community and supporters. Thank you for being an integral part of these pets’ lifesaving stories, and the APA! family.
If you have questions about how we’re putting your dollars to work for animals in need, please reach out at [email protected].
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What many people don’t know is that there is an entire machine of coordination and support behind any shelters with robust foster programs for homeless pets. The good news is that this machine is completely possible to build in any community and nurture to extend the ability to save the lives of companion animals at risk of euthanasia. And, thanks to this study, we have even more certainty on what we suspected to be a huge opportunity for new fosters in Austin.
The study matched active APA! foster parents’ demographics with Austin district census and survey data. Based on the number of current APA! fosters in each zip code, those ages 18-34, without pets, closer to the animal shelter and renters/single occupants are more likely to foster (both dogs and cats).
When these variables were compared with the census in the same zip codes, a potential 433 potential dog fosters and 498 potential cat fosters were identified! And that number could multiply if the households foster more than one animal in need.
The study also analyzed the demographic data of APA!’s current fosters to find the top 5 reasons for fostering:
Based on this information, we are more knowledgeable than ever on who potential fosters are. And any city could pair these commonalities with their communities, plus best practices for building and maintaining a foster program [ampa resource link here] and we’d be looking at city by city solving a major portion of commonly being too under-resourced to save enough lives – by finding new resources outside of the shelter and into the community via foster homes.
Thank you to the McCombs School of Business team: Anurag Peddaiahgari, Drake Sides, Haoshu Yuwen, Nicholas Hill, Nicholas Solorzano, and Sandesh Kakade, for shining new light on the potential of fostering animals in Austin!
For those of you not yet fostering in Austin and are willing to join this lifesaving network, please email [email protected].
Sources: Simply Analytics/Census and APA! fosters data
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