Project Jessie News - YOU can help!

Hi all!
Please excuse the length of this newsletter - there are a lot of things happening right now and I wanted to get them all in one place!

First of all, you may have noticed that it is finally spring - hurray!
Unfortunately with the warm weather comes greater need for foster homes.
If you are in southern Ontario and could open your home to a litter of kittens, a bunny or even one dog at a time, I would be ever so grateful.

Or if you know of someone who is looking to adopt a new friend of any species - maybe the gorgeous kitties Frankie and Lilly pictured here - that would be helpful too.
Please email or phone and we can chat...
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Thank you to all that attended the Project Jessie Dog Fun day last week. Although there were not as many people and dogs as last time, we still managed to have a nice party - and we raised about $800. Thank you!!!
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We have two potentially large fundraising opportunities coming up - one won't cost you a penny ( just a teeny bit of time each day) and the other I hope you might consider attending or sponsoring.

In less than 2 weeks Project Jessie is participating in the K9 rescue Me WalkAThon at Woofstock in Toronto.

You do NOT have to bring a dog in order to walk, and you do not personally have to walk in order to collect pledges and help us to raise some much needed funds.

If YOU are interested in walking please visit http://www.projectjessie.ca/ and download your pledge sheet under "Events".
Even if you don't end up walking, you could ask your friends, neighbours and collegues to sponsor you (or another Project Jessie walker), email the list of pledges to me and send in a cheque for the cash amount.

If you aren't going to walk, and don't want to ask for pledges, how about sponsoring a walker?
Even $10 would really help in reaching our goals!!!

You can pledge online through the secure link at:

http://k9rescueme.com/register/show-participant.php?id=40

My personal goal is to raise $2000 and I have a long way to go in just a short time. Please help!
I will probably be taking a Project Jessie foster dog or two with me as well. It is a great, dog-friendly environment to talk about rescue and to help with some financial aspects as well. THANKS!!!
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DON'T FORGET!!!
The Animal Rescue Site, http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ is hosting a special challenge for rescue groups in Canada and the U.S.
The grand prize is a $20,000 grant, and they will be awarding many other grants to rescue groups with the most votes - a total of $100,000 in grants for animal welfare organizations.

The contest started April 13 and runs through July 26, 2009. Just go to the Animal Rescue site, click on the side tab 'Shelter Challenge',
or go to http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_shelterchallenge_from_contestwinners_sidetabs

Some people have been confused by the process, so here it is step-by-step. It sounds more complicated than it really is. :o)

There will be a purple box in the middle of the screen. that says "Search and Vote for a Shelter"
The shelter name is "Project Jessie" and the country is "CAN" on the drop down menu.

After you change the country, it takes a second and the "STATE" menu will change to "Prov", choose "ON" and click on "SEARCH". Wait a second...

You get a new section underneath but inside the purple box that says the shlter name and has a button marked "VOTE". Click "VOTE"

You are taken to a new screen where they show you a picture of an animal. You have to type the name of the animal in to confirm your vote.
(So that clever people can't set up computer programs to vote for them all day long...) :o)

But I have actually noticed that if you close your browser and come back, it will let you vote more than once...

If you don't confirm your vote it will not count - so please be sure you have named an animal before you leave the site!

Please ask family and friends to vote too! I don't think we have a hope of winning the big prize, but I am sure that we still have a good chance at one of the Canadian ones. Pass this message along and lets get clicking!

Also, by clicking on the purple button at The Animal Rescue Site, http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ you give food to an animal living in a shelter or sanctuary--at no cost to you. This only takes a few seconds. Please, click every day. To make this a breeze, you can select to have daily click reminders (left column under 'Free Ways to Help).

For your help, MANY thanks!
Shelly and crew =^..^=

Shelly Hawley-Yan
Director, Project Jessie Coordinator
Animal Alliance of Canada
221 Broadview Avenue, Suite 101
Toronto, ON M4M 2G3

On the Web:
www.ProjectJessie.ca
www.animalalliance.ca
www.cruelscience.ca

email: shelly@animalalliance.ca

"In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we will never hear. They are not brethern, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ***Henry Beston (1888-1968)