Humane Society of Elmore County News
Rea Cord
Executive Director
You have one more opportunity to have fun at the Alabama National Fair and support the three area Animal Shelters on Friday, 15 October where you can get a ½ price admission for only $5 (regular admission is $10) if you bring a donation of dry or canned pet food, pet toys, blankets or towels with you.
These donations will be shared by the three area shelters – Humane Society of Elmore County, Prattville-Autauga Humane Society and Montgomery Humane Society. Please thank the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery members and Alabama National Fair for thinking of the area Animal Shelters like this and for their hard work making the Alabama National Fair such success
As a non-profit organization there are two groups of people critical to our success – donors and volunteers. We are truly blessed with a huge support base and are humbled by the support we receive on a daily basis in terms of financial support; donations of food, cleaning supplies, pet supplies, bedding to the Shelter and all the donations to our Thrift Store.
And while donations are absolutely critical, we also do our part and work very hard as a Society at our own fund-raising through multiple venues, the most important being our Tail’s End Thrift Store. Our store is actually a quite large and very labor-intensive operation that is run 100% by Volunteers. Besides being open for shopping three days a week (Thu, Fri & Sat 9-3) there is plenty of work to be done on other days sorting, pricing and moving donations so this means there are Volunteer opportunities throughout the week.
As with any organization Volunteers come and go, so we are always on the lookout for more to help spread the workload. If you can carve out a few hours perhaps one day/week to come help on a weekly basis we would love for you to stop by. The Thrift Store is a great place to help and the Volunteers there are truly a tight-knit Volunteer Family! If you are interested but want more info, just email the shelter at [email protected] or send a Facebook message to the Shelter (Humane Society of Elmore County), OR the Thrift Store has its own Facebook page: Tail’s End Thrift Store for the Humane Society of Elmore County.
Volunteering in our Thrift Store IS helping our animals as all of the proceeds from sales there come straight to our shelter to help our funding and our work caring for 300+ animals every day. And you can always come over for a break from the Thrift Store to visit our pets and see how your efforts are making a positive difference. For everyone who donates and shops at our Thrift Store, please also thank our Volunteers for their endless hard work on behalf of all the pets we want to help now and long into the future.
Our Humane Society’s Annual Meeting is coming up on Tue, 19 October, 6 pm, Wetumpka Civic Center, 410 S. Main St, Wetumpka, AL 36092. We will be reviewing our accomplishments in the past year, voting for our Executive Board members, and looking ahead to 2022. Hope to see you there!
For our supporters who work for the Alabama State Government and want to donate financially, no better way than through the 2021 Alabama State Combined Campaign (SCC) and our Agency Code is 106803. The SCC is critical to Alabama non-profits and helps make donating to deserving charities easy either one time or via monthly payroll deduction. We want to thank all who so generously donate to help not only our shelter, but non-profit agencies everywhere.
Rea Cord, M.S.
Executive Director
Humane Society of Elmore County
255 Central Plank Rd
Wetumpka, AL 36092
Ph: 334/567-3377
Fax: 334/567-8774
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.elmorehumane.org
