Assisi Animal Foundation

ASSISI Animal Foundation is celebrating its 30th year anniversary this year!
The animals are loved and cared for everyday 365 days a year!

I have volunteered at Assisi for many years and continue to be in awe of the love and care the cats and dogs receive. All their funds are spent on the animals, no large salaries, expensive perks just hard work and lots of vet bills. This is a rare and wonderful charity.

I have volunteered and supported the ASSISI Animal Foundation for 9 years now. I love how they not only care and rescue hundreds of animals each year, but the organization offers therapy and training to help the animals get healthy, strong and feeling loved again. This Rescue Center has a great program monthly were their animals go to nursing homes and other senior citizen facilities to give people the unconditional love they need. ASSISI has been dedicated for over 20 years with the annual "Animal Blessing Day" with a local church pastor. You couldn't ask for a better all around caring, loving, and dedication to animals than the ASSISI Animal Foundation. I will continue to support and volunteer for many years to come.

Assisi has been part of our lives for many years, as donors and caregivers to the animals. We have found the animals to be well cared for by the staff, volunteers, and director.

Our entire family is appreciative of the work that is required daily, and the sacrifices that have been made by those who care for the animals, including the founder.

This place is awesome. They care for the animals, like no other shelter. I've adopted many animals from them and I'm a supporter of them

This shelter is in serious need of organizational, directional and medical help. The Founder's heart is in the right place but her mind is either not as sharp as it was years ago, or is so overwhelmed with trying to run the facility by herself that incredibly important matters are being forgotten, overlooked, or outright turned down. The employees feel over-worked, underpaid, and unappreciated.

The animals suffer because the focus is on taking in as many as possible versus taking the best care possible of a more manageable number. The food quality is poor, at best. The facility needs serious updates to both buildings, such as: new flooring, vapor barrier paint on the walls, roof work (including structural repair as well as new shingles), proper sized sinks for each area, commercial grade washers and dryers to replace the second-hand thrift machines currently in use, better quality tools and materials needed for proper daily use to care for the animals, in addition to a designated quarantine area to treat contagious animals.

Employees and volunteers have been driven away by the inconsistent and often closed-minded manner in which this facility is operated. More often than not, these people do not feel heard when they speak for the animals. When the people in charge (Founder and Executive Director) talk down to staff members out of anger or frustration it lowers morale. Neither staff, nor volunteers should ever feel belittled when they are there to do the work that needs to be done for the best interest of the animals.

Even potential adopters have been mistreated and turned away by those in charge of this facility. The communication in general is horrendous. There is no successful communication system put into place. Whether information is shared verbally, written, or by message, it still manages to get misconstrued in one way or another and this causes confusion and irritation.

The employees truly do love the animals and hope that one day soon things can be changed for the better so that it becomes a more peaceful work environment and a real sanctuary for rescue animals.