August 16, 2010 The Animal Welfare League of Arlington is pleased to announce that Neil Trent will join the organization as Executive Director in September 2010. Neil brings over 30 years of experience in international, national and local animal welfare. He is currently the Executive Director of the Longmont Humane Society in Longmont, Colorado. Neil [...]
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What’s Possible, Part Three
Posted in AWLA Policies, Principles, Yardsticks on August 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Delaware Changes Everything
Posted in AWLA Policies, Principles on July 29, 2010 | 12 Comments »
On July 23, Governor Jack Markel signed Senate Bill 280, thereby establishing Delaware as a national model for the compassionate treatment of homeless companion animals. Modeled on the No Kill Advocacy Center’s Companion Animal Protection Act, Senate Bill 280 amends Chapter 80 of the Delaware Code by specifying how animal shelters must handle unclaimed animals. [...]
The Root of the Problem
Posted in AWLA Policies, County Contract, DC Area Rescue Orgs, Principles on July 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In its fiscal 2009, AWLA received $1,229,326 from Arlington County to perform animal control and manage Arlington’s open-admission animal shelter. But as a private non-profit organization, AWLA also raised $1,031,897 in charitable contributions. Along with depreciation of $91,162, those contributions resulted in positive cash flow of $500,000 in fiscal 2009. If AWLA were a for-profit [...]
Transparency
Posted in AWLA Policies, Principles, Yardsticks on June 4, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Comments we’ve received from an AWLA volunteer on our last two posts suggest that maybe we’ve been too optimistic about the rate at which AWLA is improving its efforts on behalf of homeless animals. A culture of stonewalling and inertia is hard to change, especially when most of the management team responsible for it remains [...]
Another Missing Ingredient
Posted in AWLA Policies, DC Area Rescue Orgs, Principles, Yardsticks on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I joined volunteers from seven local animal-rescue groups who attended an evening meeting hosted by the Fairfax County Animal Shelter. The meeting was arranged by FCAS managers who wanted to know how they could work more closely with the rescue groups to facilitate cat adoptions. What, our hosts asked us, could they do [...]
A Missing Ingredient
Posted in AWLA Policies, DC Area Rescue Orgs, Principles on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last year over 2,000 dogs and cats found homes through the Arlington-based Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation. That compares with 1,080 dogs and cats adopted from AWLA in its fiscal 2009 and 1,081 from the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria in calendar 2009. (The resemblance between the two AWLAs is eerie, no?) Lost Dog [...]
