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Triangle Land Conservancy strives to create a healthier and more vibrant Triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms and food, and connecting people with nature through land protection and stewardship, catalyzing community action, and collaboration. We see the Triangle region as an increasingly healthy and vibrant place to live where wild and working lands are protected and everyone has access to open space, clean water, and local food.

Wild Horse Education is a tiny, all-volunteer organization with a very strong track record in educating the public, media, other advocacy groups and managing agencies for changes in the way wild horses and burros are managed on public land. Our group photographs and documents current range conditions, prepares reports for inclusion in conversations dealing with government agencies to taking that documentation into a courtroom when other avenues for discussion fail. Wild Horse Education led the way in gaining an enforceable humane handling policy, reforming the way wild horse and burro populations are managed on the range (minimizing removal and managing on the range), improving the adoption program, as well as protecting wild horses and burros from slaughter.

The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future. Our response to controversies as they arise is to provide information that helps people to make their own informed decisions. We pledge to educate the public by offering the most up-to-date, accurate wolf information possible. We who want knowledge about wolves need clear, thoughtful presentation of the facts and issues involved. That is exactly what the International Wolf Center seeks to provide. The study of wolf survival continues to include the study of human tolerance. It is hard for people to tolerate or to respect what they are raised to fear. The wolf problem is a people problem. We need everyone's help to solve it.

Carolina Equine Rescue and Assistance (CERA) is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to saving horses from abuse neglect, and slaughter. We rescue with the intent to rehabilitate, retrain and re-home through our adoption process. Horses who are not adoptable will receive high-quality care and call CERA their forever home. We believe that education is the foundation in order to decrease the unwanted horse population. CERA offers educational classes in equine ownership and management taught by qualified clinicians. We are also actively involved in the pre-veterinarian program offered through Wingate University. Select students are given the opportunity to receive hands-on experience by working with our veterinarians, farriers and assisting with daily care of our horses.

• To help American Eskimo Dogs in need of rescue. • To reduce the population of American Eskimo Dogs in shelters, humane societies, and in rescue. • To promote education to the general public regarding the problem of unwanted American Eskimo Dogs and how to prevent it by discouraging indiscriminate breeding. • To protect American Eskimo Dogs from abuse and cruelty. • To operate as a functional rescue organization that will take in and provide the proper shelter, veterinarian care, socialization, rehabilitation and placement into caring and responsible homes. • To network with other rescue organizations (pure-breed and all-breed) to draw attention to American Eskimo Dogs in need of rescue when we are unable to take them into our rescue (due to resource constraints or other concerns).

Animal Friends - VA addresses, coordinates and provides aid and relief to abused animals and finds loving homes for those animals. We provide education during interviews and meet and greets on the care animals deserve and ensure through contracts that our animals will be taken care of after adoption.Our program raises consciousness about the cause of over population at animal shelters, the importance of spaying and neutering your pets and the benefits of good veterinarian care. We contribute to vetting and operational expenses at other animal shelters and assist by placing their pets into loving homes.We also offer volunteer opportunities which provides opportunities for involvement in said activities and programs in order to have a greater impact for change in the community.

Helping low income and homeless pet owners take care of their companion animals by providing free wellness services, such as spay/neuter and free vaccinations which curbs the spread of contagious diseases and lowers the numbers of unwanted pets in animal shelters; to educate pet owners and the general public about pet wellness and the consequences of pet overpopulation; to nurture the animal/human bond by providing assistance to those who might otherwise have to surrender or euthanize an animal due to lack of resources; to keep animals out of shelters by reducing the population of kittens and puppies and keeping animals with their caretakers; to take in owner surrendered pets and shelter animals for re-homing; to publish educational and informational materials promoting animal welfare.

The Kauai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Kauai SPCA) is a non-profit organization founded by concerned Kauai business leaders, veterinarians, and animal welfare advocates. We provide a safety net for Kauai’s homeless pets that cannot be saved by other island animal welfare organizations. Our mission is to:1. Nurture adoptable animals through training and socialization2. Work collaboratively with other Kauai animal welfare organizations3. Provide resources like affordable spay and neuter for cats and dogs4. Ease rescues by partnering with mainland shelters and rescues to adopt dogs and cats5. Engage Kauai pet owners and enthusiasts6. Reduce Kauai’s feral cat population by working with existing, successful trap, neuter and return programs

To find homes for companion cats and kittens, which have become lost, abused, or whose owners can no longer keep them, through operation of an animal shelter, animal rescue and foster care network, in a program context maximizing live release rates.   To offer humane information to adoptive cat owners on any topics which will enhance the human-animal bond.   To offer humane education to the public about the problem of uncontrolled population growth in domestic cats.    To offer humane information to those engaged in trap, neuter release programs and if possible to provide financial assistance in altering feral cats.   To collaborate with other organizations with similar purposes.

The Finger Lakes SPCA (FLSPCA) has been in business since 1949, when it was known as the Bath Animal Shelter. We serve the population of Steuben County in the Southern Tier of New York State. Our mission is to protect animals. We are dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and companion animal overpopulation. Our organization is committed to strengthening and supporting the human-animal bond through education about the humane treatment of all animals and responsible companion animal guardianship.Finger Lakes SPCA envisions a time when our society celebrates the human animal bond by solving the animal overpopulation problem without euthanasia, ensuring permanent homes for every animal, and all animal suffering ends

The Humane Society of Westchester, founded in 1911 as the New Rochelle Humane Society, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting the human/animal bond through the compassionate care and treatment of animals throughout the communities we serve in Westchester County and beyond. To that end, our goal is to create a living environment that is not just a shelter, but a transitional home for stray, lost, abandoned, injured, and abused animals, until they can ultimately be placed in loving permanent homes. Through promotion of successful pet adoption, animal population control, and public education of animal welfare issues, we advance our belief that pet ownership is a lifetime commitment. We service 19 communities in Westchester County.

The Pope Memorial SPCA is dedicated to caring for abandoned and homeless pets, protecting and advocating for pets in need, and promoting the humane treatment of all animals. The Pope Memorial SPCA envisions our community to be a safe haven for animals, where the animal-human bond is nurtured and all animals are treated with compassion and respect. The shelter strives to place homeless animals in loving homes that are committed to their lifetime care. This goal is facilitated by medically and behaviorally evaluating all animals, providing necessary veterinary care and working closely with applicants to ensure a successful match. With an emphasis on community program and humane education, the Pope Memorial SPCA strives to be one of New Hampshire's leading organizations, serving all needs of our communities' companion animals, their owners, and the general population.