October 15th is the start of the Rescue Rally 2011-2012! If you are an all-volunteer rescue partner with IACC and located within a 50 mile radius of Indianapolis you are eligible to participate! Join the Rally! If you know of a qualifying rescue group - let them know about the Rally! Cash awards are available! New categories of animals for awards pulled from IACC include "sight impaired," "physically challenged" and those with the longest residency.
January 24, 2012
For immediate release
Second Annual Rescue Rally Awards Ceremony Set for Friday, January 27
Winners of the second annual Rescue Rally, a friendly competition among all-volunteer animal rescue organizations in the Greater Indianapolis area, will share $8,000 in prizes this Friday when the results of the three-month competition are revealed. Prizes will be awarded on Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. at Circle City Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Hospital, 9650 Mayflower Park Drive, Carmel IN.
The public is invited to attend the awards ceremony, which will feature refreshments, entertainment and a silent auction.
Sponsored by local animal welfare advocate move to ACT and supported by 16 local businesses, Rescue Rally offers cash prizes to qualifying rescue groups who pull animals from Indianapolis Animal Care & Control and find them loving, permanent homes. The winners will use the prize money to offset the costs of food, veterinary care, transportation and other operating expenses.
Fourteen groups participated in the Rally, which took place between October 15, 2011 and January 15, 2012. Participants competed to see which could rescue the most dogs, the most cats, the most special-needs animals, and the most black dogs and cats. The groups have pulled more than 250 at-risk animals.
“These small, all-volunteer rescue groups do so much with so little,” said Warren Patitz of move to ACT. “They have no paid fundraisers and little, if any, name recognition to help them get donations. Their expenses are often paid from their own not-so-deep pockets.”
“Rescue Rally offers them some much-deserved recognition and much-needed funds.”
Less than half the homeless animals who wind up at IACC leave the facility alive. Volunteer rescue groups are responsible for at least 30 percent of those rescued.
Patitz noted a significant increase in sponsorship support for this year’s Rescue Rally. “Local businesses and private donors are recognizing that these small groups represent the best return on their investment in animal welfare,” Patitz continued. “Volunteer rescue groups are ordinary people doing extraordinary work.”
For more information, contact:
Carolene Bash
317-641-9300
Rescue Rally Awards Ceremony
When: Friday, 7 PM, 1/27/12
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