“Empowering all those who help needy animals!”
United Pet Fund was founded in 2010 as a nonprofit organization with the express purpose of ‘Helping Where Needed’ for animal care and service organizations (ACSOs). With that philosophy, we have provided: Scholarship funds for ACSO volunteers to attend continuing education conferences; Handyman service for assistance in repair and maintenance of shelters; Pet Health Days in under-served areas such as Over the Rhine; Emergency funds when needed for unexpected predicaments; and also have provided Nonprofit leadership management, along with shelter/rescue topics seminars to ACSO volunteers and leadership. UPF will follow the creed of the ancient Chinese proverb that states, ‘Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.’
We are working on becoming a national resource and support organization for the smaller ‘mom-and-pop’ ACSOs. Our goal will be to become a Nonprofit ACSO-member Services Organization that will provide basic business services needed by all nonprofits to become successful. Eventually, with the advantage that comes with large number of members, we hope to offer access to discounted business services for our members, including, but not limited to products and services that are needed by all nonprofit animal service and care organizations: Legal and Accounting, Insurance, Public Relations, IT services, Credit/Financing Services, Pet Products (including food and health supplies), Webinar-based training in Nonprofit leadership and management skills, as well as Animal Behavior and Health needs. The list can go on, but we have place to start. With all these in one location, with a central organization that understands the needs of the smaller ACSOs, the animals served by these organizations will be the ones in the end that benefit.
