The Humane Society of the United States is a fantastic non-profit organization that has made amazing strides in the field of animal welfare. The HSUS constantly works to ensure that the lives of all a... more
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I became familiar with the HSUS when I was 13. I was so upset about the Canadian Seal Hunt, and I wanted to do something about it, and here was a group that was doing something! The greatest thing about HSUS is even if you are a teenager or college student with no income, the HSUS still provides ways to help rather than just donating! You are actually doing work and making a difference. I have met many state directors and Wayne Pacelle and they are incredibly passionate and dedicated to their work and they are making a real change for animals in the United States.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
The Humane Society of the United States is a fantastic non-profit organization that has made amazing strides in the field of animal welfare. The HSUS constantly works to ensure that the lives of all animals are made better through legislation, rescue efforts, and education.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
my everyday life. The experience I gained with the HSUS has given me the confidence to fight for animals in my every day life and to make a positive change.
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Try to somehow distinguish the HSUS from all the local Humane Societies and shelters to prevent confusion as to where money is being donated.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Quite well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
What one change could this group make that would improve your volunteer experience?
My volunteer experience was amazing, they shouldn't change a thing!
Did your volunteer experience have an effect on you? (teaching you a new skill, or introducing new friends, etc.)
Because of my volunteer experience, I now have contacts all throughout the United States to help me pursue my career in animal welfare. I also have started my own student animal rights organization, which has improved my leadership, organization, and event planning skills. Through the HSUS, I have also gotten involved in several local animal groups, which has introduced me to many amazing animal lovers in Colorado.
How did this volunteer experience make you feel?
VERY HAPPY and like I was doing something significant with my life.
The HSUS is the nation's most effective and most powerful animal welfare organization -- so effective, in fact, that they are the number one target of smear campaigns from animal abusing corporations who have had to change the way they do business.
HSUS confronts puppy mills, inhumane factory farms, seal clubbers, horse abusers, dog fighters, cockfighters, and dozens of other varieties of cruelty and abuse... And they put an end to it.
I know that my donations are being put to the best possible use by the HSUS!
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2013
HSUS is an amazing organization with campaigns across the U.S., covering a staggering array of anti-cruelty issues. They are by far my favorite nonprofit! The fact that the HSUS is the target of multi-million dollar smear campaigns funded by puppy mills, factory farms, furriers, circuses -- even seal clubbers -- is a testament to the effectiveness of this organization. They are the #1 enemy of animal abusers because they are the #1 charity confronting cruelty.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
A lot
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
most of the negative comments here pertain to the fact that HSUS does not fund or run shelters. That is not the objective of this organization. They are instrumental in stopping cruelty, either in hoarding, or dog & cockfighting. I am part of their field response team, have seen it first hand, and are proud to be a member.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
Dear Charity Navigator, I am totally upset that Humane Society of the United States get a three star Rating...I just got an email from you telling me that you revised your system...well you really n... more
Charity Navagator really needs to do their homework on this charity....THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES has been found guilty of corruption concerning Fields Entertainment...they are to pay millions in fines....this organization is very corrupt and giving them 4 stars only hurts charity navagators
credibility....the ASPCA was also involved and already paid their 9 million. Plus HSUS socks away more money in their retirement plans than they do to help animals....DO NOT GIVE THIS ORGINIZATION ONE DIME! please give money to help animals to local rescues...they are the hands on hard working people who deserve the help....GOD BLESS! It will not let me post this unless i select a rating...I want to give them 0 stars, but if will not do that so just to get this posted I have to give them one star....but they deserve none!
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
No
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
None
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Badly
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
No
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
Dear Charity Navigator,
I am totally upset that Humane Society of the United States get a three star Rating...I just got an email from you telling me that you revised your system...well you really need to revise it again...this rating only hurts yourself as a reliable source as a charity navigator...I will never take your work again.
As for the Humane Society of The United States, they are a fraudulant group that begs people for money, whom most people are duped into believing that it is gonna be used to feed and shelter the poor animals that are in their commercials. It does not once mention that most of the money will be used to pay off lobbiests, pay for large salaries, the the money given by these people will be taken food out of their mouths and causing their food bills to sky rocket because of their attacks on the agriculture in america...they are out to destroy america. How dare you give them a 3 star rating and mis-lead the public into giving them more money...to further push their vegan, anti agriculture, anti american agenda...SHAME ON YOU!!!!
The Great!
I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
the rising cost of our food supplies, their never ending sickning commercials. The attacks on our agriculture.. the mis use of funds, their lying behavor ect. ect. ect.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
fire the CEO, actually share money with hands on rescues and shelters that actually care for the animals. Quit trying to push the vegan agenda down the throats of the american people...Quit lying to the american people Quit putting millions of dollars per year in the retirement funds, more than is given to help animals. Quit being the THUG organization that you are. Oh Geeze, will not let me post unless I rate this organization....you should be able to not rate them as they do not deserve a rating.
I am confused. Some people say that this charity is a fraud and, others say it is good. Can someone please show me proof?
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When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
I have worked with HSUS as a volunteer for nearly 20 years now as they work tirelessly for better antti-cruelty legislation, care for animals, help in disasters, and do so many good works, it is impossible to list here. With an organization as large and influential as HSUS, you will hear from their detractors loud and clear. THE NEG REVIEWS BELOW ARE WRITTEN BY THOSE HIRED TO ATTACK HSUS.Y HSUS is comprised of people who deeply love animals. But they are constantly and vehemently harrassed by the State Farm Bureaus who actually harrassed me and my fellow volunteers on the street as we collect signature on petitions. People who make a living by selling/trading Exotic Pets are cruel, selfish, and greedy people. I have spent weeks helping take care of dogs and cats in horrible condtion who were rescued from large so called 'sanctuaries'. Those who run them are criminals.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
HSUS sponsors ALF and is no different than any other home grown terrorist group. I did not know I was volunteering to terrorize people out of their pets and to wind having most of them killed. They abuse the victims of these raids, plant false evidence and make false charges. I saw them spray urine on puppies and smear than with feces when taking them out of their kennels. They pushed the owners physically no matter their age or gender. They treated these human being like trash for owning pets. Although some had more than most people most of them were well fed although not all were groomed. But they were healthy and particularly saddening for me was to go to raid a sanctuary. In sanctuaries you will see animals with infections or under weight who have been recently taken in to the sanctuary for safety. However, HSUS raids were conducted on sanctuaries instead of giving these sanctuaries money to help care for these animals at their last place of rescue they took them and killed then and not only that destroyed the sanctuaries building and houses for the animals. This was sickening. I felt like I was a nazi collecting jews for concentration camp killings. This organization is sick throughout. I am sending my information in through a friend because these people are really scary.
The Great!
I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
harassing lonely individuals with no support other than their pensions and their animals. Taking animals to be killed in local shelters from a sanctuary that was their last stop before dying.
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
fire the animal rights cult members who run it.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
No
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
None
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Badly
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
No
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2011
What one change could this group make that would improve your volunteer experience?
quit lying to the public about what they really do which is to push for laws that make owning or using an animal impossible. They know the public will not like giving up their pets so they pass laws that make owning a pet impossible or expensive.
Did your volunteer experience have an effect on you? (teaching you a new skill, or introducing new friends, etc.)
It made me sick how they treat people and leave the animals to die in a local shelter when they have more than enough money to take care of every lost dog or cat in every shelter right now.
How did this volunteer experience make you feel?
Sick about this so called lobbying agency being called a charity and it makes me think that your rating system is flawed.
The HSUS does work to fight animal cruelty on the national scale. While the HSUS doesn't pay operating costs for local shelters -- no organization could as there are over 5000 local shelters in the country -- it does a great deal to assist them.
The HSUS provides training initiatives for local animal shelters, hosts the nation's largest trade and educational show for shelter professionals, and maintains national shelter standards. It launched the first ever national advertising campaign to promote the adoption of shelter animals. The HSUS also has major advocacy campaigns to combat animal cruelty, dogfighting and cockfighting, Canada's notorious baby seal hunt, and large-scale puppy mills. Its Animal Rescue Team deploys in response to natural disasters, working with other organizations to rescue, shelter and reunite lost animals with their families.
I volunteer and give financial support to my local shelter, but I also volunteer and support the HSUS. The work of both organizations is critical to animal welfare in the United States.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
The Humane Society of the United States is simply the most effective organization in the country working on behalf of animals. I donate and volunteer for the HSUS for several reasons. First, they work on behalf of ALL animals, whether that means helping to pass laws against shark finning, cockfighting, or getting farm animals out of cruel, intensive confinement. Second, the HSUS works to strike at the root of animal cruelty. This includes busing puppy mills, raiding dog fighting rings, protesting the seal and whale hunts, working for truth in labeling about fur, working against canned hunts and internet shoots, etc. If you rescue an animal, you help that animal, but if you pass a law, you help millions of animals. This is what the HSUS does best. The HSUS also provides direct care for thousands of animals through its five sanctuaries as well as its humane veterinary care program and other programs. No, the HSUS does not fund local shelters. If it tried, it would run out of money in a week, and the homeless dogs and cats would just keep coming. But the HSUS helps shelters in many ways including publishing Animal Sheltering mangazine, running the annual Animal Care Expo, providing shelter visits and consultations, etc. There is simply no other organization that can do what the HSUS does on a national scale every day.
The Great!
I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
I volunteered to collect signatures for the Ohioans for Humane Farms campaign. An unbelieveable 500,000 signatures were collected in just 3 months, and the HSUS used them to get better laws for all animals in Ohio.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
Meeting others who care as much about animals as I do.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
Professional, organized, compassionate and committed
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
Help even more animals.
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
Of course they don't spend their money on shelter animals. They spend it where it most needs to go - factory farming, fur, experimentation...the big guns. Billions of animals die for food, and that is where the focus of the future must be. Those who claim they're being targeted by HSUS must have something they're hiding that they need to change. So change it.
The Great!
I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Prop2 California
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
send less junk
I have worked with both my HSUS State Director, as well as some of the folks in the D.C. office. I have been involved with many non-profits, and never have I witnessed such dedication, selflessness and ethics in the operation of a non-profit.
In addition, the large scope of activities HSUS is involved in is amazing. From local shelter assistance to wildlife sanctuaries to helping shape humane legislation for all animals - companion animals, livestock and wildlife - they are the most effective agency for protecting the voiceless.
As a volunteer and donor to this organization, I cannot say enough about the valuable work they do.
The Great!
I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Their support in eliminating the unscrupulous and inhumane horse slaughter industry in the U.S. (I own and train horses). I've also seen their work in disaster response, which is amazing.
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
None.
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