My Nonprofit Reviews

The New Faifield Sherman Animal Welfare Society is a premier volunteer organization serving our two towns for the greater good. The Society has exemplary standards for animal rescue, compassionate care and humane education. The founders were a very few (what would be now called "cutting edge") local folks who saw a need and fulfilled it. Over the ensuing decades, the several presidents who followed were dedicted to saving pets, with one hundred per cent devotion.

The organization has a history of rising to the occasion, appointing an Advisor Board in the 1980's to raise the money to build an animal shelter facility, which was accomplished by seven years of intense multi-faceted publicity efforts, successful grantswriting and many fundraising efforts such as an annul advertizement Journal and raffles (offering items such as dinners, lunches and breakfasts for two and gorgeous hand made quilts designed by NFSAWS members). Advisory Board members travelled on many interstate trips to see existing shelters to gather information to create the best possible facility that could be done at that time. Extensive research was conducted to find and apply for appropriate grants. The Pet of the Week started at this time, with apperances of dogs and cats in The News Times,the regional newspaper. The local newspaper, the Citizen News, also cooperated with publicity by printing frequent articles submitted by the Society on interesting topics such as local spay neuter statistics which were compiled from public records, an article about the Humane Society of the United States' Humane Education Center (located in Connecticut, and the announcement of a national humane eduction award won by a past president.

The organization has a unique and much-anticipated annual fundraising boutique, revealing the artistic side of the crafters who work hard all year to fashion Christmas tree decorations and other holiday and pet products The orgainization has a modern flair, joining the internet age for even better communication.

It is a safe, clean, kind, good group for a stray dog or cat to be rescued by. and the group holds the promise of contiuing to rise to the occasion as the future. unfolds

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