HOW TO HELP

Six easy things you can do right now to help make this center a reality:

• Sign up for our quarterly e-newsletter to keep up to date on Fix Our Ferals news.
• Follow us on Facebook to get to know our community of fantastic supporters.
• Make a donation via Donate Now or Paypal.
• Volunteer! We are currently looking for folks to help with event planning and grant applications.
• Subscribe to this blog (over on the right) via email to get alerts on the latest news about the center.
• Spread the word about our center! Tell everyone you know!!

Action Alert! $5,000 Challenge Grant Starts NOW!

Let's work together!

WE HAVE A $5,000 CHALLENGE GRANT AND NEED YOUR DONATIONS TO MEET THE MARCH 31, 2012 DEADLINE! This exciting grant opportunity will match up to $5,000 in contributions and pledges received between now and March 31. This means your generous gift will go twice as far in getting the Center off the ground! Check out the info on the right hand side of this page to find out easy ways you can donate to the Center.

Together, we can make a tremendous difference for the cats in our East Bay community and the people who care for them! Let’s get the word out. Forward this to EVERYONE you know!!

$12,000 Leadership Gift Just Received!

We are thrilled to announce that Fix Our Ferals has received a $12,000 leadership gift to help launch our Capital Campaign! This is a sensational start to our urgent efforts to raise $75,000 to complete our building improvements and fund critical start-up costs.

Special thanks to our anonymous leadership donor, as well as our other generous inaugural Capital Campaign contributors, Lorie McElligott and Heather Lee, and to all of you who responded to our appeal.  In addition to financial support, we are grateful for receiving in-kind contributions that will make our Center both a highly professional clinic and a welcoming place of education and inspiration for the community.

 

Join Our Capital Campaign for the FOF Spay-Neuter Center

Photo: Eileen McGovern

Have you heard the great news? Efforts to humanely reduce the Bay Area’s feral cat population will take a significant leap forward this spring:

Fix Our Ferals is opening its much-anticipated Spay-Neuter Center
serving Contra Costa and Alameda counties!

Join us in making it a resounding success! 

The Center, located in Richmond, will be open in late April or early May and will provide spay-neuter services three weekdays and one weekend day year-round.  We anticipate sterilizing 25 to 30 cats a day, or an amazing 5,000 cats in our first full year of operation!

Photo: Mark Decker

To subsidize the low-cost surgeries for feral and stray cats, Fix Our Ferals will also sterilize tame cats belonging to residents in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.  Fees for tame cats will be considerably less than most Bay Area veterinary rates, making spay-neuter for all cats, tame and feral, indoor and outdoor, much more accessible.

Fewer litters born will reduce euthanasia rates at our area’s shelters, and improve the lives of those cats now living in our East Bay neighborhoods. Glenn Howell, director of Animal Services for Contra Costa County, says the new Center will be a huge asset toward the goal of reducing the feral cat population in the county.

ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF OUR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

We urgently need your help to raise $75,000 to complete our building improvements and to fund start-up costs.  This critical funding will enable us to get our life-saving center up and running.  Together, we can make a tremendous difference for the cats in our East Bay community and the people who care for them.

Please make a generous donation today!

or

Using PayPal

You can also make a donation by check by sending to:

Fix Our Ferals
POB 13083
Berkeley CA 94712-4083

Fix Our Ferals is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service
as a Section 501(c)3 non-profit organization,
ID# 94-3297241.

Thank you for joining us in this important endeavor that will bring major transformation to the East Bay’s abilities to control our stray and feral cat population… and to care for our neighborhood cats and kittens!

First look at the center space before construction begins

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We’ve signed the lease for the FOF Spay/Neuter Center!

It’s in a great location in Richmond near San Pablo and MacDonald Avenue, with easy freeway access.We still have lots of work to do before the Clinic is up and running, but we’re aiming to be open for business this spring.

The FOF Spay/Neuter Clinic will enable us to help many thousands more free-roaming cats and kittens in the East Bay, every year. Stay tuned for more updates and information about how YOU can be part of this outstanding project! For our new spay-neuter center, we will need lots and lots of help from our volunteers with all kinds of skills, from raising funds to raising actual walls.

• Please sign up for our new e-newsletter, which will also report our progress and let you know how you can help.
• Since our expenses will more than double to support the new facility, we now need volunteers to help with event planning and grant applications.
• As each new stage is reached, we will ask for volunteers in other areas.
• Contact Rebecca Marsh at rebeccamarshfof@yahoo.com about volunteering now and/or later, and about receiving our e-newsletter if you did not receive our first one on January 4th