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Sponsored by: Connecticut Humane Society
October 20, 2021 Giving Guide 2021

Connecticut Humane Society

 

MISSION: 

The Connecticut Humane Society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty. CHS is not associated with the government or any national animal welfare groups.

Veterinary technician Sam Golab with Fox Memorial Clinic patient Casey after performing an x-ray. Fox is the Connecticut Humane Society’s reduced-fee clinic, which treats owned pets so that they can keep the families they love and offers a Special Assistance Fund.

The Connecticut Humane Society envisions a state where each companion animal finds and keeps a permanent, compassionate home, where communities are enriched by the special bond between people and animals, and where cruelty no longer exists.

GOALS

  1. Expand expert, compassionate veterinary services statewide. CHS provides care to owned and homeless pets through its three locations and reduced-fee public veterinary programs. In 2020, CHS provided medical care to 4,548 pets. CHS achieved a 97.3% successful placement rate (with 1,391 adoptions).
  2. Keep more pets in homes and out of shelters. While there will always be a need for rescue operations, spay/ neuter, and adoption, preventative efforts are growing through:
    • Reduced-fee veterinary care for owned pets in need, which is more important than ever due to impacts of COVID-19.

    • Three Pet Food Pantries—distributing 94,781 cans of pet food in 2020 to families in need—and by providing pet food to human food banks.

    • Programs preserving human-animal bonds: traveling community wellness clinics, training classes and animal behavior help.

    • A new crisis foster program that provides foster care for owners experiencing a situation that makes it temporarily difficult for them to care for their pet (military deployment, domestic violence, in-patient medical treatment, etc.)

  3. Strengthen collaborative partnerships. CHS provides pro bono veterinary care and adoption services for municipal and private shelter pets (737 pets in 2020), and professional development for animal welfare workers, and partners with legislators on animal-related state-level policies.
  4. Offer more educational opportunities in person and virtually to children and adults as a way of building a more humane world. In 2020, CHS introduced 1,347 children to animal care and advocacy, and supported 1,113 adults who have pets or wanted to learn more about them. This level of outreach is expected to double this year.

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

Jake the pooch surveys the Connecticut Humane Society’s Pet Food Pantry with long-time volunteer Steve Woolbert. The pantry provides pet food to animals of families who are going through a rough patch, in an effort to preserve bonds between pets and their people.

Anyone passionate about saving pets’ lives and keeping them in the homes they already love can donate through shares of stock, cash gifts, required minimum distributions, donor-advised funds, or a planned gift in their will; become a monthly donor; or make a gift that’s matched by their employer. Corporations can support CHS through outright gifts, grants, employee giving campaigns, and sponsorships.

POST-PANDEMIC

CHS has increased its focus on keeping pets in homes with people who love them, since the pandemic uprooted so many lives and prompted so many more pets and owners to seek support. Preserving those bonds is important to pets, people and the overall community, so this expanded effort will continue. The adoption process was also revamped to incorporate more social distancing safety measures, and some of those may continue.

“Animals love us unconditionally, support us compassionately, and never abandon us. I am grateful for every aspect of CHS’ mission because the guiding star is for us to do better for these pets. That includes getting and keeping them healthy, finding the right homes, and helping with any transition they need. CHS does the work we wish we had the time and resources to do, and they never take a break. They are always there to help, no matter what is going on in the world, and I want to help them do that.”

-- Carole Noujaim, donor, volunteer on CHS’ Development Committee Vice President, Employer Sales for North America, DarioHealth

ABOUT US

Year established: 1881

Annual revenues (most recent fiscal year): $8,613,003

Total number of employees: 77

GEOGRAPHIC SERVICE AREA(S):

Statewide, with locations in Newington, Waterford and Westport.

TOP FUNDING SOURCES:

Investment Income: 46.13%

Private Contributions: 42.56%

Program Service Revenue: 7.03%

Grants: 2.47%

Corporate Gifts: .92%

Event Revenue: .83%

Other Income: .06%

CONTACT:

701 Russell Road, Newington, CT 06111

800-452-0114

CThumane.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ellen Sharon, President: Founder/President, CompetitivEdge
James Bias, Executive Director

Gretchen Dale, Vice President: Loftex Industries

Dr. William A. Haines, Secretary: Hartford Veterinary Hospital

Steve Parker, Vice Secretary: Independent Media Consultant

Jo Ann Roberts, Esq., Treasurer: Connecticut General Assembly

Peter Cable, Member:  Retired (physicist)

Eric Lopkin, Member:  The Modern Observer Group

LuAnn Giunta, Member: Retired (marketing, sales, real estate)

Nora Sagendorf, Member: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC