Animal Sheltering 101
Yes or No - all dogs and cats entering the shelter are vaccinated on intake?
Yes
Newest member of the Foundation Board
Who is Joe Gallagher?
A free-range, loosely owned cat that spends most of its time outside
What is a Community Cat?
The sole employee of the Board of Directors.
Who is the CEO or ED?
True or False: Every board member has a role in fundraising.
What is True?
The number one reason animals in Cheyenne are surrendered to the Shelter.
What is housing restrictions?
When donors leave a portion of their estate to the Foundation, they become members of this special group.
What is the Legacy Circle?
In FY 2024, 74 animals whose owners were hospitalized, experiencing homelessness, or escaping domestic violence situations were housed at the Shelter via this program.
What is Safety Net?
This document outlines how meetings are run and how decisions are made.
What are the ByLaws?
There are currently 138 members of this monthly, recurring donor program.
What is the Steady Sidekicks?
After dogs and cats, this is the most common type of animal in the shelter.
What are rabbits.
This donor provided a $1 million donation to help establish the Foundation.
Who was Marian Rochelle?
This corporate partner helps to fund reduced-cost adoption events and public spay and neuter services.
What is the Bissell Pet Foundation?
Name the three duties that comprise a board's legal responsibilities?
What are the Duty of Care, Duty of Loyalty, Duty of Obedience?
Pets Welcome! is an initiative designed to acquire and retain this type of donor.
What is a private business or corporation?
The number of adoptions completed last fiscal year (within 200).
What is 2,395?
This is an example of a project specially funded by the Foundation.
What is:
Play yard fencing
Roof Replacement
Seed funding for 2nd Veterinarian
Name three processes for which customer care staff are responsible.
What are:
Lost Pet Reclaims
Collecting Lost and Found Reports
New animal intakes
Adoptions
Pet Food pantry distribution
Scheduling appointments
Answering phones
Opening and closing the front lobby
Putting away donated items
A board member hears a complaint from a volunteer. The best first step is this.
What is referring it to theCEO?
This core fundraising effort focuses on unrestricted gifts that support day-to-day operations and sustain the organization throughout the year.
What is the Annual Fund?
The number one reason animals are euthanized at the Shelter?
What is owner-request?
The mission of the Cheyenne Animal Shelter Foundation (verbatim).
To afford reliable and consistent financial support for the efforts of the Cheyenne Animal Shelter in providing temporary housing and maintenance for lost, abandoned, abused or neglected pets until they can find their forever families.
Over 29,000 of these were contributed to the Shelter last fiscal year.
What are volunteer hours?
According to BoardSource, a nonprofit board serves ten essential functions. Name 5.
What are Determine mission and purpose, Select the chief executive, Support and evaluate the chief executive, Ensure effective planning, Monitor and strengthen programs and services, Ensure adequate financial resources, Protect assets and provide proper financial oversight, Build a competent board, Ensure legal and ethical integrity, Enhance the organization’s public standing.
CAS's annual fund goal for FY 2025-2026 (within $50K)
What is $953,500?