Dear Friend
We invite you to share your love with animals by donating to Project Jessie.
Project Jessie is Animal Alliance of Canada’s rescue programme that reaches countless animals across Canada. Please help us to continue and expand our lifesaving work with your donation.
Generous donors to Project Jessie have already made it possible for us to provide significant grants totalling $52,500 this year to organizations that:
♥ Shelter and care for rescued farmed animals
♥ Provide rescue, spay/neuter, and adoption programmes for cats and dogs in remote and northern regions
♥ Conduct Indigenous-led spay/neuter programming for dogs and cats in First Nations communities
All of these programs are made possible by donors like you. Project Jessie donors are kind people who want to improve the lives of animals and to save as many lives as possible. Today, as always, we are grateful to you, our partners in compassion.
This year Project Jessie donors enabled grant-giving to the following organizations:
1. Manitoba Animal Alliance: This rescue organization works in northern Manitoba, assisting remote communities to better care for dogs and cats through spay/neuter and adoption programming.
2. Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary: This is a family-run haven, which has partnered with us for many years, for farmed animals who would have faced the horrors of animal agriculture if not for the compassionate people of Cedar Row.
3. Canadian Disaster Animal Response Team: CDART volunteers travel to areas in British Columbia that have experienced disasters, like wildfires, to rescue and shelter domesticated animals during times of crisis.
4. Canadian Animal Task Force: This Alberta organization benefits companion animals by providing guidance and resources to communities, assisting them with supportive programming to help animals and their communities.
5. Canine Action Project: In Saskatchewan, this group partners with Indigenous communities, providing services to promote ‘One Health’, a concept that recognizes the relationships among humans, animals, and the environment to promote community well-being.
6. Best for Kitty: In remote regions of Northern Ontario, Best for Kitty volunteers cover a vast area to rescue and find permanent homes for cats and kittens.
7. SPCA Montérégie: This grass-roots SPCA is one of the few No-Kill shelters in Quebec. Not affiliated with other SPCAs, they provide caring and comfortable shelter and other services for companion animals, with no time limit.
8. Aboriginal Community and Animal Advocacy Connection, working with the
Community Healthcare Partnership Program at Ontario Veterinary College/ University of Guelph: PJ provided $4500 to support a large scale spay/neuter, Indigenous-led initiative for feral cats in an Ontario First Nations community. We also contributed $500 for a microchip program to protect family-member dogs.
9: NWT SPCA: This SPCA provides services to domesticated animals throughout a vast region with few veterinary services. Our significant donation of $15,000 has provided an ultra-sound machine that will greatly enhance the quality of diagnostic service and care for animals.
10. Caregivers of Petrolia Ferals: This grassroots organization cares for feral and abandoned cats throughout southwestern Ontario. They have spayed/neutered/vaccinated numerous cats and have provided essential treatments for injured and sickly cats.
Each one of these partners is doing great work.
Each one benefited from the generosity of Project Jessie donors.
Project Jessie was originally formed as a hands-on rescue program in 1991 with the goal of keeping dogs and cats out of the hands of researchers by getting as many as we could out of pounds and shelters. Through the years the number of dog and cat rescue organizations in Ontario has increased greatly, meaning that our own rescue group was no longer critical to our goal. Our work to end the use of former ‘pets’ in research continues through our ‘No Pets in Research’ campaign. We realized that by helping other organizations to rescue, spay or neuter, and find homes for dogs and cats, we could reach far more animals than we could ever help on our own. As well, farmed animals also need rescue and shelter and Project Jessie is ready to help them all.
So, Let’s Go!
Let’s jump into another great year of reaching out to fellow advocates who rescue, shelter and assist animals all across Canada.
Let’s keep the love going this Giving Tuesday 2022.
On behalf of the entire team at Project Jessie and Animal Alliance,
THANK YOU.
Together we are doing amazing things for animals! If you would like to learn more about our updated Project Jessie program, please visit animalalliance.ca/projectjessie/
With gratitude,
The staff, Board and volunteers of Animal Alliance
P.S. You can further support Project Jessie with a ‘Gift of Compassion’ and send a great gift to your friends who also love animals.
A ‘Gift of Compassion’ includes a sponsorship ‘Thank-You’ certificate and a personalized card that notifies the receiver that a donation has been made to Project Jessie. You can place your order by contacting Lia Laskaris at 416-462-9541 ext. 24. You can also order through this link: https://www.animalalliance.ca/project-jessie-gift/
Gifts of Compassion options:
$35 donation to help a cat
$50 donation to help a dog
$70 donation to help two cats
$85 donation to help a cat and a dog
$100 donation to help two dogs
