Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals: 2015 Annual Report

SAVING LIVES

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The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals is committed to seeing the day when no New York City dog or cat of reasonable health and temperament is killed merely because he or she does not have a home.

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SAVING LIVES THE WHEELS OF HOPE KEEP ROLLING FOR NYC’S ANIMALS

ADOPTIONS RULE! Thanks to you, 7-year-old Odie was taken out of the city shelter and delivered via the Wheels of Hope to his foster mom in central New York. From there, Odie moved on to his adoptive forever home in beautiful Vermont.

Moving animals out of Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) shelters to partner organizations continues to be our most effective method of saving lives. The Alliance’s Wheels of Hope vans facilitated 13,200 transports in 2015, moving animals to rescue groups and shelters, adopters, foster caretakers, and veterinary clinics. The Wheels of Hope transported animals and supplies

to and from adoption events, and also transported community cats to and from spay/neuter appointments.

In addition, the fleet transported traps to Certified TNR Caretakers who perform Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR).

Seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, our Wheels turn to create brighter futures for more Little New Yorkers.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS JANE HOFFMAN, ESQ. President, Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals Voting Member (2003–Present) MEENA ALAGAPPAN, ESQ. Mayor’s Alliance Board Secretary Executive Director, Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART) Independent Voting Member (2011–Present)

GAIL BUCHWALD Senior Vice President, Adoption Center American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Independent Voting Member (2003–Present) SANDRA DEFEO Executive Director/Director of Public Relations, Humane Society of New York Independent Voting Member (2003–Present) JULIE MORRIS Senior Vice President, Community Outreach American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Independent Voting Member (2003–Present)

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ADOPTAPALOOZA 15,000 ADOPTIONS AND COUNTING Thank you for helping hundreds of homeless pets find their forever homes!

The Alliance’s high-profile, multi-group adoption

Small-scale mobile adoption events, made possible

events–Adoptapaloozas in Union Square and Prospect

through the use of the Alliance’s adoption van and those

Park, and Whiskers in Wonderland–continued to

of several partner organizations, also boosted adoptions

dramatically increase adoptions in New York City.

citywide. These local events brought pets to the

Additionally, Broadway Barks–the annual star-

people in neighborhoods across New York City, raising

studded adoption spectacular presented by Bernadette

awareness and increasing the visibility of our partner

Peters and Mary Tyler Moore–celebrated its 17th

rescue groups and NYC’s homeless animals.

lifesaving year.

THE NYC FERAL CAT INITIATIVE CARES FOR NYC’S FORGOTTEN FELINES In 2015, in partnership with Alley Cat Allies and the ASPCA, the Alliance continued its TNR Certification Training Program, designed to solve the feral cat overpopulation crisis in New York City by increasing the number of individuals trained to perform TNR. The program offers two different ways to become a Certified TNR Caretaker: through an in-person, hands-on workshop in any of the city’s five boroughs; or by taking the online course. Individuals who become TNR-certified are eligible for a range of free services and resources, including spay/neuter, transportation of cats to and from spay/neuter appointments, trap loans, outreach materials, networking opportunities, and a dedicated NYC Feral Cat Initiative (NYCFCI) help desk.

The Alliance’s NYCFCI additionally provided specialized training in bottle-feeding, kitten-taming, shelter-building, improving neighbor relations, and other areas of expertise.

Your support helped Willie, a former community cat, receive the lifesaving care he needed. During his recovery, we discovered Willie was human-friendly. Willie moved from his foster home on to an adoptive forever home via the NYC Feral Cat Initiative.

THANK YOU

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT This year, thanks to our key initiatives and our

turning for little Leon, who got to take the biggest

successful partnerships with 150+ Alliance Participating

trip in all of his four weeks to his new foster family in

Organizations (APOs), we achieved an unprecedented

Massachusetts.

90% community-wide Live Release Rate for New York

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City’s shelter animals. We succeeded in saving more

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than 9 out of every 10 lives at ACC in 2015, and we

transferred out of

have saved more than 300,000 lives since 2003.

the NYC shelter

Today, New York City has been transformed into

and moved to

a markedly more humane community than when we

a new adoptive

began, thanks to YOU – our valued partners and

family in central

supporters who dedicate time and resources to benefit

New York thanks

NYC’s animals.

to your support!

Every day at the Alliance brings new challenges.

What remains

Whether we’re working to move animals out of the City

steadfast is your

shelter and into placement via our Wheels of Hope program, training New Yorkers to perform TNR and care for community cats through our NYC Feral Cat Initiative, helping our community’s most vulnerable pet owners keep their pets despite difficult circumstances via our Helping Pets and People in Crisis program, or preparing for our large-scale

support. Every time you make a gift to the Alliance, you allow us to say “yes” to one more NYC animal who needs the Alliance.

More pets and people than ever need the critical resources and services of the Alliance. With your help, we can sustain the dramatic impact we have made in the lives of New York City’s animals, and keep saying YES.

Adoptapalooza

Thank you for your support this year, and for joining

events, every day

us in the fight to save NYC’s animals.

is different.

Here’s a glimpse

Jane Hoffman, President

at two of the Little New Yorkers you’ve helped by supporting our lifesaving programs: You made sure the Wheels kept

ACC LIVE RELEASE RATE

90.1% PROGRAM EXPENSES

30,502 24,694

23,196

30,278

Total Intake

4.9% MANAGEMENT & GENERAL

5% FUNDRAISING

’15 LR 81%

2015 REVENUE FROM OPERATIONS ’14 LR 77%

29,061 22,360 ’13 LR 77%

28,921 20,264 ’12 LR 70%

21,411 32,325 ’11 LR 66%

41,712

23,780 35,669 ’10 LR 67%

23,552 ’08 LR 56%

22,202 ’07 LR 62%

’06 LR 47%

’05 LR 44%

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14,337

5K

’04 LR 32%

10K

’03 LR 26% 11,947

15K

19,017

20K

20,561

25K

27,445

30K

’09 LR 66%

42,248

42,500

43,400

43,618

35K

44,826

40K

46,187

45K

2015 OPERATING EXPENSES Total Live Release

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.2% OTHER

61.5% FOUNDATIONS

38.3% INDIVIDUALS & OTHERS

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