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7 people are interested
Foster Recruitment Coordinator (MA area)
ORGANIZATION: ANIMAL RESCUE KONNECTION INC
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7 people are interested
Hello! Thank you for looking at this volunteer opportunity! Please note that this is a virtual opportunity to assist a MA/NH-based rescue - you would work from home and not a facility. Read on if this interests you!!!!
Animal Rescue Konnection (ARK) is looking for someone with dogs, fostering, and animal rescue experience in the Massachusetts or southern New Hampshire area.
We can only save as many dogs as there are appropriate foster homes. This position is crucial to keeping a steady pool of good foster homes for the dogs we serve. Your job would be to outreach and advertise our need for fosters on volunteer sites like BostonCares, as well as traditional and social media outlets.
You’ll need regular phone and internet/email access, and the ability to respond to needs and attain fosters in a timely way. In some cases, we need a foster immediately for a dog that is doing badly in a shelter environment or to prevent euthanasia. We ask for approximately 6-8 hours per week devotion; however, some weeks would require only 1-2 hours.
Please share your ideas for this important rescue role. Thank you!
Difficult to place, but easy to love.
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About ANIMAL RESCUE KONNECTION INC
Location:
9 SKIPPER WAY, GLOUCESTER, MA 01930, US
Mission Statement
Animal Rescue Konnection (ARK) bridges the gap between dogs in need and the organizations that can help them find new homes. We specialize in matching breeds that are hard to place due to discrimination and labeling with progressive shelters and rescues willing to take on the challenge of taking in these 'at risk’ dogs and giving them what they need to succeed. We are not a shelter. Rather, we are a networking organization enabling us to save more dogs’ lives by collaborating with existing rescues and shelters. We focus on at risk dogs that are behaving poorly in the shelter or holding facility and/or do not do well on their behavioral evaluation due to stress. Since our founding in May 2012, we have helped save more than 400 at risk dogs in need of transfer, by finding them a shelter or rescue and giving them a second chance at the life they deserve.
Description
A small organization that achieves a lot because of the commitment, dedication, business, and common sense of a handful of volunteers.
Too many dogs were being euthanized under the guise of labels like 'unadoptable’ and 'not place-able’ without evaluating the dog as an individual, looking at the dog’s stresses, looking at the physical environment or enlisting a training regimen. We decided to do something about it.
We focus on helping dogs that are displaying behavior symptoms during their confinement. Why? Because, in our experience, these dogs manifest entirely differently in new environments, after they can de-stress from the trauma of being misplaced or with proven training regimens.
These dogs can be saved if only other shelters and rescues knew about them. Leveraging our vast connections in the rescue community, we fill a huge void collaborating between progressive shelters and rescues and dogs whose time up or were not doing well in their current environment.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
9 Skipper WayGloucester, MA 01930
DATE POSTED
November 7, 2020
SKILLS
- Networking
- Organization
- People Skills
- Animal Care / Handling
- Mentoring
- Management
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 6-8 hours per week when busy; 1-2 hours per week during down times.
- Looking for positive, reliable, committed "do-ers" who work independently, stay in touch, and respond timely to emails. Follow-through, computer skills, and organizational skills needed. Knowledge of rescue world varies by position.