FRIENDS OF FRONT STREET SHELTER
PO Box 22214, Sacramento, CA 95822 friendsoffrontstreet.com

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Organizations Filed Purposes: We're committed to assisting the Front Street Animal Shelter achieve its goal of saving the lives of all stray, abandoned, and abused animals who come through its doors. We support the many programs and activities needed to care for and find loving, forever homes for homeless animals. And we support causes that improve the lives of pets throughout the region.

Assisting the Front Street Animal Shelter improve the adoption rates for stray, abandoned, and abused animals. Funding programs and activities to find forever homes for homeless animals. Supporting causes that improve the lives of pets throughout the region.

In 2020, Friends of Front Street Shelter (Friends) continued our core mission to support Sacramentos municipal animal care facility, the Front Street Animal Shelter. Donor dollars helped Front Street provide medical attention and behavioral modification to stray, abandoned, abused, and neglected animals. These efforts improved their chances of survival and adoption.Friends also boosted its efforts in 2020 to help pet owners avoid the need to surrender pets to area shelters and continued to support regional efforts to improve the lives of all animals. The generosity of donors allowed Friends to not only continue help for pets and their humans without interruption but to expand upon those efforts during the year.Though the pandemic prevented Friends from staging its large, in-person fundraisers Brewfest and Paws to Party donations through the Big Day of Giving spiked in May 2020, doubling the prior years donations to more than $150,000. Individual and business donations through a variety of online platforms and direct mail campaigns saw a boost of more than $160,000 in financial support.Friends largest annual expense continues to be medical support, including additional help for Front Streets medical team, payments to outside veterinarians for specialized medical care, and for the maintenance of medical equipment. We also expanded veterinary medical assistance for owned animals in 2020, devoting well over $100,000 to medical-related costs.Friends provided $50,000 to Front Street to help fund staff positions that improve outreach and public education, and to assist the public in finding adoptable pets. With COVID-19 causing many to lose jobs or experience a reduction of income, Friends stepped up its support for the pet food pantry to ensure that pet owners could continue to feed their beloved pets despite economic hardships.Recognizing the need to spay, neuter, feed, and foster thousands of newborn kittens who come through Front Streets doors every year, our donors provided funding for the needed surgeries and for specialized food for mother cats and their kittens. We assisted Front Street in founding and funding a novel volunteer program to improve the survival and rescue of kittens born to feral cats, and to free up Animal Control Officers to attend to more pressing tasks.Friends invested in other nonprofit organizations devoted to animal welfare, providing assistance to those who helped Front Street by taking animals with medical and behavioral challenges, and by donating to rescue organizations to ensure their continued vitality.Among many other initiatives and programs that are too numerous to list, we continued our support in 2020 for the Sacramento County District Attorneys Animal Cruelty Task Force, funding expert assistance in the prosecution of those who maliciously injure or kill animals, Friends thanks its donors for their generosity which makes all of this possible.

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