Deadline: 3/16/2020
Amount: $2,500–$10,000
Description:
The purpose of this program is to improve the lives of at-risk senior dogs in order to ensure that they do not die alone and in fear. Funding will support applicants seeking to develop a new senior dog program, as well as those seeking to continue or expand an existing program. Projects must benefit senior dogs exclusively, have well-defined goals, and include measurable outcomes.
Examples of eligible project activities include:
  1. Creating or helping to expand foster programs specifically focused on finding homes for senior dogs
  2. Preventing owners from surrendering senior dogs to shelters as a result of economic circumstances
  3. Providing medical care and other programs that increase the potential for senior dogs to be adopted
  4. Providing medical expenses for in-home, short-term hospice care for senior dogs who are unable to be medically rehabilitated but who can live their final days in a place of love, security, and peace
  5. Providing long-term in-home care for senior dogs who are not adoptable
  6. Helping people find new homes for senior dogs when they can no longer keep them (in particular, working with senior citizens who must relinquish their senior dogs due to changes in circumstances, such as moving to assisted living)
  7. Helping senior dogs to give back to society, including training senior dogs as therapy dogs or involving dogs in activities sponsored by assisted care facilities
  8. Building a seniors-for-seniors adoption program