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Greater Good Charities with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, and The Animal Rescue Site to .
Greater Good CharitiesApril 14, 2021 GMT
Seattle, April 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) In honor of Heartworm Awareness Month, Greater Good Charities, in cooperation with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, the maker of HEARTGARD® Plus (ivermectin/pyrantel), and The Animal Rescue Site announced today the launch of the Good Flights program. The goal is to transport 2,000 shelter dogs from Louisiana, where they are at risk of euthanasia, to new homes on the East Coast. That number includes 1,000 asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs. The program is part of the Greater Good Charities’ Save a Heart initiative, which aims to reduce shelter euthanasia in overcrowded shelters by preventing and treating heartworm disease in shelter dogs, while transporting adoptable asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs
Mars, Incorporated Donates Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Recovery Efforts Following Severe Winter Storms
Cash and in-kind donations will support people and pets in affected Mars communities
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MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In response to the devasting winter storms across many communities in the U.S., Mars, Incorporated announced a donation of nearly $500,000 in cash and in-kind donations, inclusive of a $100,000 donation to American Red Cross Disaster Relief.
Grant F. Reid, CEO of Mars said: We re grateful that our Mars Associates are safe following the recent destructive and dangerous storms. But, many of them, their families and friends have been impacted along with millions of others We re thankful for partner organizations like the American Red Cross that are bringing additional resources and relief to communities, people and pets, and we re proud to play a part in supporting that work.
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Count of homeless in Clark County to be revised
Due to COVID-19, Point in Time will tally those who are sheltered
Published: January 13, 2021, 3:55pm
Share: Katelyn Benhoff, lead outreach case manager with Share, left, speaks with Dimitri Coles in front of Share House while performing the annual Point in Time Count on Jan. 24, 2019. (The Columbian files)
The Point in Time count of the area’s homeless population will be different in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Council for the Homeless is having to cancel its 2021 Project Homeless Connect and the unsheltered component of the Point in Time count.
“Both events place people in direct contact with one another and the risk of COVID-19 infection for our neighbors who are homeless is too high,” the Vancouver nonprofit outlined in a news release Thursday.