Whom You Know: Please support Friends of Animal Rescue- It's Not Only Fashionable this Fashion Week, But Also Altruistic! Support Blaine and Betsy and the Animals of FOAR!!!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Please support Friends of Animal Rescue- It's Not Only Fashionable this Fashion Week, But Also Altruistic! Support Blaine and Betsy and the Animals of FOAR!!!

You know our favorite animal charity anywhere is Friends of Animal Rescue:
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2010/06/nightlight-friends-of-animal-rescue.html

And its president, Betsy Goldman, is a Mover and Shaker:
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2010/07/movers-and-shakers-betsy-goldman.html

We told you their next fundraiser is coming up on September 26th:
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2010/08/foar-and-best-friends-animal-society.html

Here is a message from our friend Blaine Caravaggi, Director and Treasurer of FOAR, and keep in mind that 24 animals will be euthanized in the time it takes you to read this:

Many of you know that 2 years ago I helped launch an animal rescue
group in New York City. Friends of Animal Rescue (FOAR) is a
registered 501(c)(3) whose mission is to provide financial support to
small groups and individual rescuers who so often must use their own
money to pay for training, transportation and expensive veterinary
care for the abandoned animals they save. In less than 2 years we
have raised close to $120,000 and have been able to help save over 150
animals. While this puts only a small dent in the more than 4 million
pets that are euthanized in this country each year (that’s 11,000 per
day/456 per hour/8 per minute), it is a start and I am very proud of
our organization.

One of the organizations that have helped to fund FOAR is Best Friends
Animal Society. Best Friends runs the largest no-kill shelter in the
country, providing sanctuary to over 2,000 dogs, cats and other
animals every day. You may have heard about this group as they were
responsible for rehabilitating pit bulls freed from the Michael Vick
dog-fighting compound. They had their own show on National Geographic
called Dogtown.

Anyway, this year on September 26, Best Friends Animal Society is
sponsoring a NYC fundraising walk called Strut Your Mutt and I will be
representing FOAR – along with several other board members and
friends. As one of the network charities chosen for this walk, all the
money I raise goes directly to FOAR. Would you consider sponsoring me?
If our group raises the most money we will get massive amounts of
publicity and hopefully more funding – but most of all – your money
will go directly to the neediest cases. You can check out some of the
pets we have helped save on our website (www.foar.org).

Please help create a world of no more homeless pets – Sponsor me today!

http://bestfriends.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&eventID=500&participantID=1692

Thanks everyone!

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