Mission: Hero Pups will use 100 percent of funds to acquire, train, and pair dogs with veterans and first responders to help increase their independence and peace of mind resulting from traumatic challenges incurred during their service.
Results: 141 dogs placed with veterans and/or first responders
Target demographics: we place pups with veterans and first responders
Direct beneficiaries per year: 141
Geographic areas served: NH MA ME VT RI VT
Programs: inmate training program, aid with shelter adoptions and provide service dog training programs
This team is so dedicated to helping both the dogs and vets that they work with. They may be a small program, but I don't think they'll stay that way for long!
Great organization! The people are incredibly friendly and they do wonderful things for people in need. Volunteering with them is a beautiful experience.
velmamccarthy
Professional with expertise in this field
09/21/2020
Rating: 5
09/21/2020
Wonderful set of volunteers! Very efficient, kind, and friendly. The dogs are trained very effectively and they’re very communicative with their puppy raisers and volunteers. Other organizations that work with dogs could learn something from Hero Pups.
When I learned about the story of Laura and Hero Pups I was thoroughly impressed. She is a woman on a mission and she is doing some amazing work that is truly helping people. I highly recommend Hero Pups and the work that they do.
What started as an organization that trains therapy dogs for veterans and first responders has grown into training Comfort Dogs for police departments and even has a training program in a local jail. Hero Pups is still 100% volunteer and does not charge recipients for their dog.
One of the most impressive things I have seen with Hero Pups is their ability to stretch donor dollars as far as possible and they have no paid positions. This foundation will prove valuable in sustainability as they attract larger donors and are therefore able to help more people.
I’ve been volunteering with Hero Pups for a while now, it’s an amazing team of people who I’m proud to work with. Everyone is so dedicated and so focused on their mission, it’s a breath of fresh air every time I work with them!
Cami B.1
Professional with expertise in this field
08/05/2018
Rating: 5
08/05/2018
Passion, progressive, personal and POWERHOUSE!!
Heropups is run by a dynamic, fabulous, fierce, fearless and on fire leader....Laura Barker. She had such a personal and emotional reason for creating this organization and boy does it show in how she promotes it, speaks from her heart and gathers just the right people to support her, the heros and the pups.
Jon Morton is the media representative and couldn't be a better choice. He is a veteran and the proud owner of rescue pups himself, and is so passionate about how being a contribution makes him feel that he is in the process of writting a book on the subject!
The funds are properly appropriated, the volunteers are on point and the cause couldn't be better!
Best volunteers around! Each one of them contributes in his/her own way to help our veterans and first responders. It is because of those volunteers that we are able to put every dollar raised into the direct care of pups we are training.