SQSPCA head will chair state association Susquehanna SPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes takes on another role this year as Board President for the New York State Animal Protection Federation, a statewide organization formed in 2010 to safeguard the well-being of all animals through legislative and policy initiatives in the state. Ms. Haynes has served on the Federation’s board since 2019. The group is the voice of New York’s animal shelters, humane societies, and animal welfare organizations, and a trade/educational resource…
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In Thanks, All Adoptions $23 Anonymous Donation Helps SQSPCA Top $100K Challenge COOPERSTOWN – With the support of a “generous” anonymous donor and community supper, the Susquehanna SPCA has surpassed the $100,000 dollar-for-dollar matching challenge, bringing the shelter $223,000 closer to the new shelter’s $5 million price tag. An anonymous donor funded the challenge to help the Shelter Us campaign meet its goal. “Thanks to the generosity of this anonymous donor – and to an incredibly supportive community that continues…
5-Star Subaru Donates $16.9K To ‘Shelter Us’ Drive $1.2M Short Of $5M Target COOPERSTOWN – A $16,963.64 check this week has brought the Shelter Us drive one-third of the to its latest matching challenge grant of $100,000. The SQSPCA is $1.2 million away from its Shelter Us campaign target of $5 million. Ben Guenther, proprietor of Five Star Subaru, Oneonta, presented the check this week SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes.…
CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION $100,000 Match Offered To Shelter Us Campaign INDEX – With construction underway at the new Animal Shelter here, Susquehanna SPCA today announced receiving a $100,000 challenge grant, which will match every dollar contributed to the $5 million project between now and Aug. 1. “To have an anonymous donor offer us a challenge grant of this magnitude at such a crucial time for our project is truly amazing,” said SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes.…
$3.3M Raised To $5m+ Goal Shelter Raises $236K, Benefactor Adds $30K By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Stacie Haynes couldn’t believe the size of the check Staffworks founder Anita Vitullo handed her. “I just about fell out of my chair,” the Susquehanna SPCA executive director said. “Last year we got $95,000 and I was nervous that we wouldn’t beat that!” The Save-a-Life campaign offers shelters a matching donation of up to $10,000, and this year, Vitullo added some…
CLICK HERE TO DONATE FOR NEW SHELTER ‘Shelter Us’ Campaign Ups Goal To $5 Million By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It hasn’t been easy, but in the year since the Susquehanna SPCA launched its “Shelter Us” capital campaign to build a new animal shelter, more than $3.2 million has been donated towards the project. “We’ve had a lot of support, and we’re so grateful,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director. “But it’s always challenging. We’re trying to…
EDITORIAL How Often Can We Help Something 1st-Rate Happen? Solicitations, by phone, mail, email or in person, are a pesky part of 21st century life. The advantages the Susquehanna SPCA’s “Shelter Us” campaign for $3 million to build a new animal shelter are: one, the people who are running it are our neighors – we know them. And, two, everything about it is first rate. Anita Vitullo of Clinton, Staffworks’ president and philanthropist to the pet world, underscored the many ways…
WATCH FOR PROGRESS AT SHELTER SITE $2M DOWN, $1M TO GO By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com INDEX – So far, 100 individual contributions have been made to the new Susquehanna Animal Shelter, and more of the kind is needed to reach the new fundraising goal of $3 million, according to SSPCA Executive Director Stacie Hayes. “It’s the individuals we have to count on,” said Haynes in the afterglow of Saturday, Aug. 24’s upbeat groundbreaking ceremony on the site…
CLICK TO DONATE TO ‘SHELTER US’ Ground Broken, And $2M Raised, For New Shelter With Success, ‘Shelter Us’ Finds $3M Will Be Needed, And Sets New Target By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com INDEX – There was plenty of good news, high spirits and benefactors aplenty at today’s groundbreaking on the new Susquehanna SPCA shelter on Route 28. Plus a new goal to strive for. First, it was announced the $250,000 matching grant from Staffworks President Anita Vitullo has…
CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Groundbreaking Ceremony Planned For Animal Shelter COOPERSTOWN – With adoptable animals, a pet photo booth and more, the Susquehanna SPCA will break ground on their new animal shelter building on Saturday, Aug,. 24 “We invite animal lovers, shelter supporters and volunteers from across the region to join us with their pets for an afternoon of fun as we celebrate this momentous occasion,” said SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes. “If you’re not familiar with…