Portage Animal Protective League

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Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animal-Related, Animals

Mission: To shelter and find homes for injured, abused and abandoned animals,uphold and enforce animal cruelty laws, reduce pet overpopulation and educate the community.

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K.H.M Volunteer

Rating: 2

12/22/2014

I am a long time volunteer with the Portage Animal Protective League. The PAPL has been helping animals for the past 50 years and they have been very good at using both material and financial donations, and working with volunteers until about three years ago. They now hoard and then sell donations, cancel very well supported fund raising events, have a very poor volunteer program and no longer participate in local major community functions. They recently threw away thousands of dollars worth of donated food/treats due to it going bad and being extremely past its expiration date, there was also an infestation of rodents and insects causing damage to non food donations which were also discarded. Staff are not allowed to use any donations for the PAPL animals without have permission from the management. Staff members who have been there for years are leaving, the remaining ones are treated like they are incarcerated.
The management and people in position of authority have no respect for volunteers or fellow staff members and if a problem is brought to the managment or Executive Directors attention you are told it is not your place to say anything or you are ignored and nothing becomes of it. If you speak to a board member about your concerns the Executive Director chastises you, a volunteer, and states that she is the only one who decides what the board of directors needs to know. They also feel that as a volunteer or employee you have no right to tell people in the community, the ones supporting this organization with their time and resources, what is going on and your personal experience with the PAPL. Many volunteers have left and have gone to other organizations. Their volunteer program is basically non existant.
In the past three years (2010, 2011, 2012)( 2013 documents are not yet available as of 11/2013) their revenue from donations are down by tens of thousands of dollars even though similar organizations within a 5 county area have maintained their revenue and support from previous years. Unfortunately the PAPL has alienated many of their supporters, private individuals, commercial businesses, and other non profits, due to their mismanagement of donations, refusal to participate in major community functions and their attitude toward people in the community.
Edited 1-1-2015 : The 2013 financial statement for this orginazation is FINALLY available, one year after the end of 2013. I am extremely disappointed that it took so long for them to file this statement. Why would anyone want to financially support an organization that isn't forth coming with their financial documentation in a timely manner?

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