Create and implement recruiting, onboarding documents and scheduling strategies to increase volunteer involvement

Train new volunteers on CRISP policies and procedures

Administer Grant Funds to Spay Neuter 200 bully breeds via Best Friends Animal Society - Track Funding

Marketing Team Member + Newsletter Copywriter

May 2019 - Present

I managed a grant to spay/neuter 200 bully breeds in Chicago for Second City Canine Rescue. Funding was received from Best Friends Animal Society and the Rachael Ray Foundation to use beginning July 1, 2019 (grant end date June 30, 2020) and completed the project early, on May 21, 2020. The goal was to incite local rescues to pull bully breeds from Animal Welfare League, a closed intake facility on the Southside of Chicago and help increase Animal Welfare League's Live Release Rate as well as prevent unwanted litters.

After three months of implementation, I collected data to help amend the grant (through BFAS) and change the criteria for rescues to receive the grant monies. After three more months I provided more data to BFAS to amend the grant criteria a second time to add Chicago's open access shelter, Chicago Animal Care and Control. Upon this amendment we are able to successfully engage local rescues to pull more bully breeds and lower the cost of altering.

I tracked the success, I emailed 150+ Chicagoland rescues, inviting them to the funds. I surveyed the same rescues to find data why they would or would not pull from specific intake facilities or book the spay/neuter at the least expensive clinic; and ultimately was successful in using all the funding ($6,000) to alter 200 bully breeds; helping keep population control down. Given the ASPCA reports that one unaltered female and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies, we determined this grant can help prevent 13 million unwanted births.