To date, Our Mother's Keepers has collected over $1,300.00 for 21
different "Featured Causes", plus other things like: food for the
food bank, cat food and litter for two local cat rescue groups, and soap for
our "Soap Drive for Haiti" at the height of the Cholera epidemic in
2011. We've sometimes taken a break from
our usual Featured Causes to collect donations for the six "street rescue" cats we've vetted and adopted out from the store, and although we're unable to foster any cats at the store at this time (due to my upcoming surgery), we're currently taking donations to help vet two more "street rescues", which we hope to assist before the weather gets very cold.
In
our hurry to collect enough funds to be able to help with vetting and finding these latest two a home
before it gets cold, we started to think about fundraising BEFORE rather than
AFTER we agree to help any others, so that we will already have the
funds immediately available to have them vetted when they come along.
Therefore, we've decided to "test drive" having our "Street Rescue" fund as our
permanent "Featured Cause".
This doesn't mean we won't occasionally put out a donation box or jar on the
counter for another worthy cause at their request, it just means that we won't
be choosing different causes ourselves every month or two to promote as our featured cause.
Sammie, the store cat. and former "street rescue"
Having a store cat, Sammie, who is a former
"street rescue" himself, makes this decision a great fit for the store,
as he can be our ambassador to help others like him find homes. [Note: we are still unable to foster any cats
at the store until after my surgery, and we will still NOT take "drop
offs" (ie. unwanted cats) at the store; there is a protocol for any cats
we agree to assist. We are still NOT a cat rescue, but we want to continue to help some of those cats who don't seem to have other options.] We hope all of our
wonderful customers support us in this decision, and we assure you that we will still
carry various products that benefit and support a variety of causes and groups
from around the world.
