My Nonprofit Reviews
Lorine D.
Review for Service Dog Project Inc., Ipswich, MA, USA
This Service Dog Project is like no other !! .. I've watched the live 24/7 web cameras (via Explore.org) .. Since Sept. 2012 .. everyday ... I've had the privilege of witnessing the Danes from their birth , the training to their match with their forever -ever & ever humans .. and a lot of times "after" via the matches creating Facebook pages for them =)
Sadly I've read a couple of the 'negative' comments here ... you can tell that the writers has a felling of *entitlement* .. what I call the "give me syndrome" ...... Carlene (White) and the trainers NEVER assign a dane .. the dane MUST choose the human .... Also The human must try to "Pay It Forward" in their community as they receive the dane for NO Money at all ... SDP is truly100% NONPROFIT .... Just an Example : If you drive .. then you can volunteer ... rest homes , hospitals , schools , meals-on-wheels , literacy , etc etc etc..... The Danes are there to AID the human ... like Bella and George (George was Service Dog of the year) ... she is a young lady who now is walking (was in wheelchair) .. volunteers at her church , at the SDP and with the Boston Childrens Hospital .... or Erica & Asher .. Erica is now able to go to and finish Law School .. Eve & Finn .. Eve is a young girl with OI (very brittle bones) Finn helps her walk and protects her from falls , helps with many school and OI Awareness programs too....... Scott & Dash , Scott is a wounded veteran who happens to also have PTSD , he and Dash give lectures and more Importantly *Hope* to other vets within the VA (recently featured of a PBS show) ....... so very many examples !!!
I've also saw a comment of the SDP daneshealth .... The example stated the breeding of could produce a deaf dane .... ~ So what~ ,only a few out of hundreds .. and SDP and staff have (investigated) people lined up to give them a fantastic forever home , plus the stats are from a *Show* dog situation (like AKC) not like the SDP danes !!!!!! ... The few that can not be a service dog are referred to as Perfect Pets (PP) again many are on Facebook so we see their joy filled lives too! =)
I personally have been gob smacked at e v e r y aspect of this organization .. there IS no other ... they extend miracles every single day !!! ............................ Please check out this utterly astounding place on their main page ... www.servicedogproject.org ... and the web cams at .. www.explore.org ...