Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Organization is dedicated to finding life-long loving homes for stray, abandoned and abused cats, dogs and rabbits. The Organization concentrates on networking with other animal welfare agencies in the county and throughout the state to provide a safety net for the animals with the least chance of survival. The Organization plays a unique role in the community by rescuing animals that are at most risk in the shelter environment, the underage, nursing, senior, injured, shy and overlooked animals. Learn more at www.animalfriendsrescue.org
Dedicated to finding life-long loving homes for stray, abandoned and abused animals. The Organization concentrates on networking with other welfare agencies in the county and state to provide a safety net for animals with the least chance of survival in our local shelters.
Animal Friends Rescue Project (AFRP) is a safety net for the most at risk animals in our local shelters. These animals are typically too young, too old, injured, abused, shy and overlooked dogs and cats that do not do well in the shelter environment. AFRP rescued and found homes for 630 dogs, cats and rabbits during the 2019/2020 fiscal year with the help of over 450 volunteers. Our adoption center in Pacific Grove continues to be a successful location for finding new homes for dogs and cats. In addition to our main center we have partnerships with Pet Food Express, and Petco to host satellite cat adoption centers.
AFRP operates an In-House Veterinary Clinic to provide spay and neuter services, surgery and on-going medical care including vaccines, micro-chipping, testing, x-rays, blood work and other preventative treatment for all dogs, cats and rabbits that come into the AFRP Adoption Program.
Community Outreach/Spay & Neuter Program - AFRP's Community Outreach Spay/Neuter Voucher Program provides low and no cost spay/neuter services for small dogs and cats for the public, focusing on targeted areas in our community, that have the highest rate of shelter animal intakes. We also have a spay-neuter-release program for feral cats. Our goal with these targeted programs is to reduce the numbers of animals being born or found roaming from entering into the shelter system by providing access to affordable spay neuter services therefore making it a desirable option for the community to help reduce the number of unwanted animals needing assistance. These programs have spayed, neutered and cared for over 481 cats and dogs this fiscal year.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
| Darla Smith | Executive Dir. | 40 | $75,481 |
| Jill Long | Fmr Office Mgr | 25 | $28,699 |
| Mari Grijalva | Fmr Office Mgr | 40 | $12,032 |
| Debra Long | Treasurer | 15 | $0 |
| Carol Walsh | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Leigh Jeter | President | 1 | $0 |
| Lisa Mcelmoyl | Vice President | 1 | $0 |
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