RED HYDRANT RESCUE

Project: Pause for Paws

Prepared: June 20, 2012

www.RedHydrantRescue.com

June 10, 2012

Ms. Darlene Schwartz Pet Advocacy Program Coordinator 8000 NE Tillamook Street P.O. Box 13988 Portland, OR 97213 Greetings Ms. Schwartz, This letter has been prepared by the Red Hydrant Rescue to announce our intention to apply for your Pet Advocacy Grant program, which focuses on pet adoption. Red Hydrant Rescue is a non-profit organization focused on fostering, training, and ultimately adopting out rescued dogs. The foundation helps dogs develop necessary obedience training while in foster care, as well as educates new owners on how to communicate with their new pet. The mission of our organization is to change public awareness and attitudes towards pet adoption through a dedicated rescue agency that will extend its focus beyond merely fostering, but training rescued dogs and their prospective owners as well. Our organization has found homes for over five hundred abandoned dogs in the past year; still, more support is needed to improve our administrative infrastructure and support our training initiatives. As many of our foster homes are currently at maximum capacity, there are hundreds of homeless dogs on a waiting list inside high-kill shelters, waiting on foster or permanent homes those dogs may never make it to a permanent home, or may even return to the shelter once their new owner realizes they cannot take care of them. The aim of our organization is to prevent owner ignorance and promote action towards conditions that compromise the well being of animals. With your generous support, we will be able to increase our training staff, resources, and access to necessary facilities in order to find more potential homes for the millions of homeless pets. We wish to add Banfield Charitable Trust to our list of sponsors on our website, in order to promote Banfield Animal Hospitals across central Florida. Your generous support will allow us to avoid unnecessary detours to shelters for our rescued dogs, and improve our ability to train and foster each animal through to adoption. We are seeking a grant in the amount of $50,000 to launch Red Hydrant Rescue from an adequate facility that can foster up to one hundred dogs; the money will help establish our facility, and also purchase food and training materials for the dogs. Please send an application and any additional materials to the Red Hydrant Recue at the address listed below. We hope to file our application for the fall grant cycle and look forward to speaking with you in more detail regarding our organization. All the best, Tiffany Coy Red Hydrant Rescue 4000 Millenia Blvd. | Orlando, FL | 32809 407-226-7812

| TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background ............................................................................................... 4 Mission Statement ........................................................................................4 Need Statement ............................................................................................5 Program Description ................................................................................. 6 Goals and Objectives ....................................................................................6 Services Offered............................................................................................6 Tasks and Activities .......................................................................................7 Resources ................................................................................................. 8 Facility ..........................................................................................................8 Training Equipment.......................................................................................9 Staff ............................................................................................................10 Budget .................................................................................................... 14 Staff Costs ...................................................................................................14 Overhead Costs ...........................................................................................14 Appendices ............................................................................................. 15 501 (C)(3) certificate ...................................................................................15

| MISSION STATEMENT
Red Hydrant Rescue protects dogs in need through our adoption services in our foster network, which extends into pre, and post-adoption training; we envision a compassionate world where our dogs are valued, respected and provided with a secure and loving quality of life.

To accomplish our mission, we will... Rescue adoptable dogs, offering suitable foster homes until permanent homes can be found. Give our dogs as many chances as needed, taking them back if an adoption does not work out. Provide interim medical care as necessary. Require and encourage the spaying and neutering of all dogs. Maintain a staff available for behavioral questions and training problems. Educate the public to secure higher ideals of humanity towards all animals. Cooperate and network with other animal welfare organizations and individuals worldwide.

| NEED STATEMENT
Pet overpopulation is the number one issue surrounding existing animal shelters and rescue agencies alike; millions of pets are euthanized each year due to a lack of homes for them. Over $2 billion is spent annually by local governments to shelter and ultimately kill 8-10 million adoptable dogs and cats due of shortage of homes.1 The perceived high cost of altering this situation is not the problem, but rather the lack of education. Red Hydrant Rescue seeks to change public awareness and attitudes towards pet adoption through a dedicated rescue agency that will extend its focus beyond merely fostering, but training rescued animals and their prospective owners as well. Often, it is owner ignorance that populates shelters with abandoned dogs and cats; in an effort to promote action towards conditions that compromise the well being of animals, Red Hydrant Rescue will provide each rescued pet with obedience training prior to their adoptions, and educate each new owner on how to communicate with their new family member. Thus far, we have acquired a team of individuals with a variety of complementary skills such as legal expertise, access to fundraising opportunities, media connections and experience in animal training. In order to combine our services and form Red Hydrant Rescue, we are seeking a grant in the amount of $50,000 to cover annual facility fees and veterinary costs associated with fostering numerous animals. Please consider aiding in our cause by providing grant funding for the necessary facilities to launch this rescue agency. Red Hydrant Rescue is dedicated to informing, inspiring, and educating communities on the dangers of breeding and buying pets while homeless animals remain neglected and overpopulated. We intend to adopt more constructive pets into a more educated society that can help alleviate animal suffering and raise public consciousness toward giving animals the respect they need and deserve.
1. http://www.examiner.com/article/green-paw-prints

| PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Goals and Objectives
Red Hydrant Rescue will provide service to the community by protecting dogs in need through adoption placement services in our foster network, which will include educational programs that both the dogs and new dog owners can benefit from. Fostered dogs will go through obedience training, while new owners seeking to adopt these dogs will also be educated on how to care for their new pet. It is our goal to minimize euthanizations within shelters by intervening in the foster care of homeless dogs. We wish to support the intake of dogs into local shelters, and help manage the overpopulation that leads to euthanization. We will provide our dogs as many chances as needed, requiring that the new owners must bring them back if an adoption does not work out.

Services Offered
Red Hydrant Rescue will be responsible for scouting and taking in all-homeless dogs in the Central Florida area, assisting a maximum capacity of one hundred dogs at a home office in Orlando. Services offered for all dogs include:
a. b. c. d. Foster Care Spay / Neutering Obedience Training Adoption Placement

Rather than foster each dog separately at the homes of our volunteers, we wish to establish a home office that will facilitate our adoptions much more efficiently. At Red Hydrant Rescue our focus is on successful adoptions, which we believe entails prepping each dog for homes with existing animals, as well as obedience. We wish to incorporate seven exercise yards in addition to three training yards within our facility, in order to make sure our dogs are at their healthiest and happiest states prior to entering their new homes. Our staff of certified dog trainers will provide each dog that enters Red Hydrant Rescue with general obedience training, in order to establish a standard line of communication with each dog that new owners can adopt and enhance. New owners will also be given orientations, where they will learn how to care for their new pets.

Tasks and Activities

Increase adoptions across the board by:
a. Promoting fairs via increased advertising while keeping expenses down (advertise via website, free TV and radio spots, other rescues websites magnetized signs on vehicles.) b. Expanding adoption fair locations to other PetsMart, PetCo stores. c. Holding adoptathon with other rescues semi-annually. d. Holding adoption fairs at sites other than PetsMart.

Increase percentage of active volunteers by:

a. Reinstating a paid Volunteer Coordinator. b. Purging inactive volunteers from database to create a more manageable list. c. Contacting volunteers for key positions via phone, not email or mail. d. Creating new volunteer incentives. e. Recruiting fundraising committee members through Volunteer Match.

Increase positive media coverage of RHR events and stories by:

a. Updating media information kits and personally delivering those kits to local media groups. b. Personally calling key reporters at least once a quarter to development relationships and establish credibility. c. Regularly requesting stories from program managers/coordinators and following up with community press releases.

Purchase facility by:

a. Researching nonprofit grants. b. Researching ways the facility could pay for itself such as on-site boarding kennels, doggie daycare, on-site thrift store and recycling center, on-site fundraising activities. c. Writing a fundraising plan to support existing activities and introduce new activities.

| RESOURCES
Our Home Office
The building we wish to acquire for our home office will be a facility that is used to provide shelter, medical care and the chance for dogs to be adopted into a family. The building will contain an HVAC system that allows each dog kennel to have its own exhaust system. This exhaust system helps draw fresh air into the kennel, which helps with odor control and sanitation. A urethane flooring system will also be used in the kennel to help control sanitation; this floor system is non-porous and is chemical resistant. We wish to include seven exercise yards on the outside of the facility that are used to let the animals exercise and play with their prospective families we also wish to include three training yards to train multiple groups of dogs simultaneously.

Training Equipment
- Vari-kennels - Step-in Harnesses - D.A.P. Collars - Dog Appeasing Pheromone - D.A.P. Dog Appeasing Pheromone Spray Bottles (360 ml) - Indoor agility equipment - Kuranda Beds - Collars -Nylon or leather leashes-new - Stainless steel dog bowls - Esbilac (replacement puppy milk) - Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Dog Food Rolls - Natural Balance Wet food Loaf style (not chunks and gravy) - Small bites dog food for small breed dogs - Wet/canned dog food - Dog treats for small dogs; soft treats preferred - Advantage/ADVANTIX/Frontline flea control - Hard rubber chew toys (Kongs) - Rawhides - Nylabones - Tennis balls

Staff
Ana Zorrilla, CEO
As a compassionate animal lover, Ana Zorrilla was drawn to Red Hydrant Rescue for the opportunity to make an impact in the animal and human community of Orlando. She joined the team in February 2006 as Vice President of Development. Based on Anas demonstrated leadership qualities and business acumen she was selected by the Board of Directors to lead the organization as Chief Executive Officer in November 2007.

Dean Howard, VP
Pursuing his passion for animals, Dean Howard joined Red hydrant rescue in March of 2008 as Vice President of Development with over ten years of experience in nonprofits, communications, and branding. His diverse professional background has enabled organizations that he has worked with to increase overall funding and brand development by utilizing untraditional tactics. Along with soliciting major donors, Dean develops and implements strategies to reach annual and special fundraising campaign goals focusing on individuals, corporations, foundations, and additional sources.

Dionne Simoneaux, Volunteer Coordinator

Dionne was welcomed to Red Hydrant Rescue as a program assistant in the Fall of 2009. She quickly became a jack-of-all-trades lending a hand in our Humane Education Department, Lost and Found, and Special Events. She has now transitioned to Volunteer Coordinator; the volunteer force is essential to our organization and Dionne is well aware of her challenge of keeping everyone engaged and informed.

Sarah Babcock, Chief of Education and Training

Sarah graduated Summa Cum Laude from Sweet Briar College with a BA in Math/Economics and almost immediately went to work for IBM. During her 14 years at IBM, Sarah worked as a systems engineer, as one of the first PC sales fighter pilots, as a local area network and software specialist, and in database/data warehousing marketing. Sarah left IBM in 1998 to pursue additional education in animal behavior. She completed three years of graduate work in psychology/neuroscience with Dr. Craig Kinsley at the University of Richmond. She graduated valedictorian and with honors from Jean Donaldsons Academy for Dog Trainers at the San Francisco SPCA in 2001, and joined Red hydrant Rescue shortly thereafter as their director of education and training. Sarah was promoted to chief of education & training in June 2007. She and her staff currently oversee the behavior helpline and adult education programs.

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Connie Moser, Chief Financial Officer

Connie joined the Red Hydrant Rescue staff as the director of finance and human resources in November 2004. She was promoted to chief financial officer in June 2007. In this capacity, Connie is responsible for accounting, finance and audit, payroll and benefits, business insurance, workers compensation claim management, facility management, and information technology.

Kathy Mills, D.V.M.

Dr. Kathy Mills graduated from U.C. Davis in 2007 with a degree in Agriculture and Managerial Economics. She has worked in private practice in the Monterey Bay area. During that time, she worked with a rescue group and developed an interest in spay and neuter surgery. She also has a special interest in preventative medicine. She is a member of the Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society.

Marica Patchett, D.V.M.

Dr. Marica Patchett graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Molecular Biology and worked in research both at the University of California and with the USDA before pursing her dream of veterinary school. She graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 2009 and worked in private practice in the Bay Area before joining Red Hydrant rescue in February.

Gwen Gadd, D.V.M.

Dr. Gwen Gadd graduated with her degree in veterinary medicine from Colorado State University in 1996. She enjoys all aspects of veterinary medicine and has treated everything from stray chickens and hedgehogs to the more conventional dogs and cats.

Connie Back, Trainer

Connie has shared her home with Boxers for 25 years. She's an active member of the Boxer Club of Florida, American Boxer Club, Florida Kennel Club, Deep South All Breed Obedience Club, Visiting Pet Program of Orlando, a Board Member of American Boxer Rescue and President and founder of Louisiana Boxer Rescue, a 501(c)(3) organization. She is a certified American Kennel Club "Canine Good Citizen" evaluator. Connie has rescued and rehabilitated Boxers for 14 years and with the help of others has placed over 500 unwanted Boxers.

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Lee Gaffney, Trainer

Lee knows that behavior problems are the #1 reason animals are brought into shelters. She developed the obedience-training program in 1997 as a former SPCA employee. Lee has been active with the Visiting Pet Animal Assisted Therapy Program for more than 19 years, serving as President for 10 years and now currently serving on the Board as PR Coordinator. Lee's philosophy of training is that it not only builds confidence in the dogs as they achieve each goal, but it also builds a much stronger connection between human and canine.

Melissa Ellis, Trainer

Melissa has eleven years experience training dogs in obedience, behavioral modification, search and rescue work (SAR), detection, and fly ball. Her SAR career started in 2001 with a Catahoula that she trained for human remains detection (HRD). In 2006, Melissa added a Golden Retriever to her family and began training her for HRD. Melissa has deployed with her HRD dogs all over the world, including the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina, Aruba and Iraq. She is a founding member and the current Vice President of Bay Area Recovery K9s of FL and a founding member and current President of the National Organization Certifying Search and Rescue.

Roger Bergez, Trainer

Roger began his dog training education in 1972 with his rescued dog, Valentine. Although Roger used traditional dog training methods for years, his discovery of clickertraining pioneer Karen Pryors book 'Dont Shoot the Dog' and noted dog behavi orist Jean Donaldsons 'The Culture Clash,' led him to reconsider his previous understanding of dogs and begin a study of the science of dog behavior and learning. Since 2008, Roger has assisted, and been mentored by, well-known positive reinforcement trainer, Gallivan Burwell, CTC, CPDT-KA, who studied with Jean Donaldson at the Academy for Dog Trainers in San Francisco. Roger now brings his skill and humane focus to the Red Hydrant Rescue, offering dog lovers dog friendly training methods that are rooted in the scientific principles of how animals learn.

Maria Fernandez, Trainer

Maria has been working with dogs in the areas of obedience and agility for the past 9 years. She and her sheltie Skye have earned many titles in agility, obedience and rally. Maria is an avid dog lover and the owner of 4 dogs. She actively competes with her two younger shelties, and continues to work with her rescue husky mix, which is now 13 years old. Maria has taught and continues to teach both obedience and agility classes in our area. She enjoys teaching and loves working with dogs.

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| BUDGET
Red Hydrant Rescue Cash In-kind Other In-kind Total Request Total Expenses

I. Personnel Wages Developer Research & Implementation $20/hr 160hrs x 2 Architect $15/hr 16hrs Civil Engineer $40/hr 160hrs Mechanical Engineer $40/hr 160hrs Structural Engineer $40/hr 160hrs Electrician $15/hr 16hrs Contractors $20/hr 480 hrs x 8 1,280 Personnel Subtotal 76,800 1,280 76,800 240 240 6,400 6,400 6,400 6,400 6,400 6,400 240 240 6,400 6,400

II. Non-Personnel Training Equipment 100 each Kennels $58.00 Harnesses $11.00 Collars $6.00 Nylabones $3.00 5,800 1,100 600 300 100 100 100 100 $5,800 $1,100 $600 $300

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Spray Bottles $.50 Agility Equipment $15.00 Food 50 each Dog Food 5 lbs. $10.00 Dog Treats $3.00 Hygiene 100 each Kuranda Beds $10.00 Flea Control $28.00 Toys (misc.) Tennis Balls (30 pckgs of 3) $2.00 Rawhides (10 pckgs of 10) $3.00

50 1500

100 100

$50 $1500

500 150

50 50

$500 $50

1,000 2,800

100 100

$1,000 $2,800

60 30

30 100

$60 $30

Non-personnel Subtotal Project Total

13,790

$90,590

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 501 (C)(3)

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