2008 SPRING CHALLENGE FUNDRAISER
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A year has now passed since our first successful “Spring Challenge” Fundraiser and you will all be receiving printed information within the next few weeks announcing the kick-off for our upcoming Second Annual “Spring Challenge” event.

This is the single-most important fundraising campaign of the entire year for the Humane Society of Morgan County. If there is a single time during the year that you might wish to support the HSMC, this will now be the time to do it! The success (or failure) of this “Spring Challenge” Campaign directly determines our budget for the rest of the year and totally determines what we can accomplish during the next twelve month period. This once-a-year “Spring Challenge” is our single largest and most important source of funding from the community and our supporters.

Most of the money we raise during this campaign goes to our “General Fund”. This is the money used throughout the year to pay our utility bills, wages, veterinary and medical expenses, purchases supplies, pay insurance premiums, and fund animal welfare and education programs. Last year, the “Spring Challenge” Fundraiser brought in nearly $27,000. This represented nearly one-quarter of our total year’s operating budget. With continually rising costs, we need to raise at least $30,000 during this “Spring Challenge” in order to “keep doing what we’re doing”.

Last year’s Spring Challenge money came from many sources - The local community, part-time residents, friends and family members who don’t even live in the area, local businesses, and personal donations from our directors and paid staff members. We will be going to all of those sources, once again, to help make this event another success. Everyone rose to the challenge at a most critical time and literally moved the Humane Society away from the “brink” of financial failure to a position where we were able to pay all our bills, improve our facilities, perform much-needed maintenance, substantially improve the care and treatment provided to the animals, and actually enabled us to put a few extra dollars back into the bank for a “rainy day fund”. If it had not been for the financial support provided by hundreds of caring donors in the community and throughout the country during our “Spring Challenge” last year, Morgan County may very well have LOST this wonderful organization. This year’s “Spring Challenge” event must again be successful in order to continue serving the community and placing wonderful adoptable animals into loving “forever” homes.

When you receive information in the mail during the next few weeks, announcing our “Spring Challenge” Fundraiser event, please – open your hearts, your wallets, and reflect upon the great work and the positive value that our little Humane Society provides to this community and to the many stray, abandoned, and neglected animals in the county. If you’re not on the Humane Society’s database of donors, you’re still encouraged to take part in this effort. To donate , please notate that your donation is for the Spring Challenge and mail it to HSMC, P.O. Box 705, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411. With everyone giving as generously as possible, the Humane Society of Morgan County will meet their 2008 financial goal.