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The Florence Rogers Charitable Trust

In June 2009, FAPS was awarded $10,000.00 to

assist with spay/neuter expenses, veterinary expenses,

sick and injured expenses and shelter medical supplies.

We are forever thankful for your generosity.

Bragg 'N Barn Thrift Shop, Ft. Bragg

In March 2009, FAPS was awarded a $1,153.00 grant

to replace the roof on one of the outdoor kennels that

had previously been unuseable. We are so proud to

have the support of the Bragg 'N Barn family.

Bragg 'N Barn Thrift Shop, Ft. Bragg

In March 2008 FAPS was awarded a $600.00 grant to help defray the cost of spaying/neutering military owner- surrender pets. As always, thank you so much for your continued support.

Elinor Patterson Baker Foundation

In 2008, FAPS was awarded $4,000.00 to enhance and enlarge our cat room, improving the quality of life, for our fabulous felines! It is with "Special Thanks", that we recognize this Greenwich, CT Foundation.

Ft. Bragg Officers’ Spouses’ Club
In 2008, this ever so supportive group, kindly awarded FAPS a $500.00 Grant to help spay and neuter FAPS shelter pets. We are grateful to the Ft. Bragg Officers' Spouces' Club for their continued support!

(2005) As military personnel are deployed there is an increase in cats/dogs in need of finding a new home in our area. In the spring of 2005, Ft. Bragg Officers’ Spouses’ Club awarded FAPS a generous $2,000 grant to assist military families in discounting their pet surrender fee to our shelter. They also helped us reach out to other military families needing assistance during times of deployment. Our military cats and dogs are grateful!

Ft. Bragg Area Officers' & Civilians' Spouses' Club

In December 2007, FAPS was awarded $500.00 to support our spay/neuter program in the

Fayetteville community. Thank you for your generous support.

Cumberland Community Foundation
In 2002, FAPS began a spay/neuter campaign with community wide billboards, media promotions and distribution of $25 coupons for spay/neuter the surgeries in collaboration with local veterinarians. A call from a social worker with Cumberland County Mental Health brought to our attention the plight of many clients who owned pets, but lacked the means to adequately care for them. To these citizens their pets were their only source of companionship. This call resulted in a partnership between FAPS, Cumberland County Animal Control and The Fayetteville Urban Ministry. The Cumberland Community Foundation awarded FAPS a grant to subsidize the cost of spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations and provided a pick up and delivery of these pets to and from the veterinarians’ offices. FAPS board members Caren Payne and Melene Hatcher were instrumental in the success of carrying out our counties first successful spay/neuter campaign. They coordinated the scheduling of surgeries and often went on the pick up and delivery of pets to greet the families. Melene Hatcher also spend many hours writing grants and doing anything she could to impliment this important program!

Carolina Foundation of Charlotte, North Carolina
In 2003, FAPS was awarded a grant from The Foundation for The Carolina’s which kicked off our spay/neuter voucher program… “Spay One…Save One Thousand”, on Tuesday November 2nd. FAPS was able to distribute vouchers for over 700 animals and the full grant was spent by 2005. Thanks to the Fayetteville Observer, Paraglide and local veterinarians who helped us spread the word of our program-the response was incredible!

Our “Spay One… Save One Thousand”, voucher program consisted of two different types of vouchers to assist pet owners. All vouchers were purchased through FAPS shelter.

The first voucher, the “Local Veterinarian Voucher” included a spay/neuter surgery, one night of hospitalization, vaccination for rabies, Distemper (dog), Bordatella (dog), and FVRCP (cat). To qualify for this voucher residents had to have an annual combined household income less than $40,000. The cost of the voucher was $25 for a cat and $35 for a dog. Clients made their appointments with participating veterinarians and presented the vouchers the day of surgery.

The second type of voucher, the “Shuttle Voucher” was awarded to residents receiving governmental assistance (Medicaid, unemployment) or military personnel ranked E1-E4.
The shuttle voucher cost was $10 for a cat/dog and included transportation to the low cost spay/neuter clinic in Kernersville, NC. Runs were made once a month, and pets were picked up and returned by noon the following day to the owner.

Participating Veterinarians
Academy Pet Hospital
Ambassador Animal Hospital
Animal Hospital of Fayetteville
Cape Fear Animal Hospital
Central Animal Hospital
Cross Creek Animal Hospital
Dogwood Animal Hospital
Gray’s Creek Animal Hospital
Highland Animal Hospital
Hope Mills Rd. Animal Hospital
Manchester Animal Hospital
Northgate Animal Hospital
Seventy First Animal Hospital

A special "THANKS" to all of our participating veterinarians who helped our community wide spay/neuter campaign. They are forever friends to FAPS and our community!

Carolina Foundation of Charlotte, North Carolina 2003-Current

The Foundation of the Carolina’s awarded funding for a shelter expansion, an administrative building, community wide humane education program, shelter roof replacment, online database tracking, in house accounting, electronic platform scale to weigh animals, binocular microscope to determine illness, and to purchase pet cots, so that our animals wouldnot have to lie on the cement.

A "Very Special Thanks" to The Foundation for the Carolina’s for believing in us, investing in our organization and allowing FAPS to serve as a model shelter in the state of North Carolina. We couldn’t have done it without you!

FAPS Isolation Ward
The Humane Society of The United States recommends for a healthy shelter to operate, sick and injured animals must be separated from the healthy population. According to HSUS it decreases the spread of disease and animals recuperating from illness or surgery can rest and recover in a quiet place. The one thing FAPS was always missing was an Isolation Ward. So board members came to the animals response, and although it took nearly 3 years, an Isolation Ward was finally opened in 2006 to house over 40 shelter animals; sick, injured and recovering from surgery, illness or victims of animal cruelty.

In 2003, Mr. Gordon Johnson donated his architectural design services and worked closely with board members Dr. Kas Davis, Sara O’Hanlon and Caroline Parsons to ensure the building was perfectly designed in the animals best interest.  Mr. Jay Wyatt, Comtech, Quality Concrete, and Fay Block donated building supplies for the project. Outpouring support from FAPS followers, a grant from The Foundation of the Carolina’s, $5,000 raised by a board member, and a generous $30,000 donation by Ms. Mary B. Yarborough, an animal lover and long time friend to FAPS funded the final phases.

On July 23, 2006 the Mary B. Yarborough Isolation Ward was dedicated and opened. We were honored that Ms. Yarborough was in attendance for our open house celebration and took part in our ribbon cutting ceremony.

Thank you to all who made its completion possible. Woof! Meow!

Administrative Building
The Foundation for the Carolina’s grant also allowed for the purchase of a mobile building to hold meetings, workshops and human education classes. It serves as an administrative building with two offices and a meeting room equipted with a restroom. Two local businesses were instrumental in furnishing the office space; Purolator and SYSTEL.

Purolator was generous in donating office furniture; including desks, tables and chairs allowing us to carry out our duties for the animals.

SYSTEL, a NC office automation company donated a large COPIER that without it our shelter would not be able to operate today. Many of the volunteers have joked that the copier has a brain of its own. It sorts and staples, but most importantly it allows for quick, clear copies of adoption/surrender applications, employee and volunteer contracts, vaccination records, holiday benefit and open house invitations and a host of other important documents to be reproduced or copied.

We are forever grateful to SYSTEL and Purolator for their valuable donations to the shelter.

Exercise Field and Land
FAPS is located at 3927 Bragg Blvd. down a long paved driveway. Due to our space restrictions, we are most appreciative to our wonderful neighbors for loaning us the use of their land.

Mr. Jay Wyatt of Valley Auto World (Sycamore Dairy Road) has generously loaned us the use of his land as our exercise field for daily dog walks. Without it our dogs would have to carry out obedience training and TLC time in a confined space. Jay has also graciously fenced in the land and poured crush rock in our parking area on numerous occasions. He allows us to use the field for all of our shelter events, including our annual open house celebration. The use of Valley Auto World for open house event parking is crucial to our shelter. The Wyatt Family have been long time friends to FAPS for many, many years.

Allen Osborne of Osborne Glass kindly allows FAPS to place storage sheds on his property that hold crates and large event supplies.

Many thanks to both Jay and Allen for helping us and supporting our mission. Woof, Meow!!!

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