GRAPE Rescue

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We are a very active rescue with a wonderful core group of volunteers. However, we need you! Please click on the buttons below to learn how you can help save the lives of Golden Retrievers.

We have something for everyone to do, regardless of your location or time restrictions! So, what are you waiting for? Come join us and help make a difference!!

Foster Care
Foster Homes are vital to the successful placement of our rescues and is an extremely rewarding experience. We always have a need for foster homes! You would be responsible for the day to day care of the foster dog (feeding, exercising, socializing, etc) while in your home. These fosters should be treated as a member of your family! You always have the freedom to deny a request from the administrators to foster, or to set specific limits such as time contraints, gender, and other restrictions. We have need for both short term and long term fostering. If you are interested in becoming an approved foster home, please complete a FOSTER APPLICATION and return it to us. We will be in contact with you to set up a home visit!

Home Visits
We are always looking for people, both in and out of our immediate area, who are available to go to a potential adoptor's home to evaluate the family and living conditions. This is also a vital step in the adoption process. All applications must have a satisfactory home visit before being considered for an adoption. We provide training and guidance along with a checklist of things to look for and questions to ask. You would then report back to one of the administrators with your evaluation results. Your evaluation is taken into consideration when making the decision to approve or deny an adoption request.

Transports
Transporters are needed for a variety of reasons. Often goldens are brought to our rescue from outside our immediate area. Someone is needed to meet the golden enroute and deliver it to the rescue. Also, transporters are sometimes used to deliver a selected golden to a new forever home or to and from the vet's office. Obviously, reliable transportation is necessary!

Shelter Walkers and Evaluators
Volunteers are needed to scout out local shelters and humane societies for goldens who need a home. Also, in the case of an owner surrender, we need people skilled in the art of evaluating a dog's temperment. We have a detailed checklist of behaviors to look for to determine the adoptability of a golden.

Genuardi's Club Card
Being a non-profit organization, Genaurdi's has a program that gives a percentage of their sales back to us. We need everyone to register their Genaurdi's club card online at www.eScrip.com. Once you have registered your card everytime you shop and swipe your card you will be helping us to earn money to help to take care of these wonderful dogs! This is a great opportunity for everyone to become involved!

Sunshine Committee
Our sunshine committe is responsible for sending out thank you cards for donations, following up with new adoptions to make sure everyone is happy, and keeping track of our volunteers' birthdays! This is accomplished through email, phone calls and letters. This is an ideal spot for you stay at home people that want to get involved!

Fund Raising
From time to time, we have a need to raise funds - normally to cover an extrordinary medical expense. We are open to new ideas and suggestions for raising funds. We also have various items for sale and could always use help peddling our wares!

Donations
Being a volunteer organization, money is always tight. Medical expenses can be astronomical. If you would like to donate any amount, please either contact us or use the paypal button found above. You donation is greatly appreciate!

GRAPE is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. All donations are tax-deductible and are greatly appreciated.

Transport a dog?
Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding* type items?
Donate MONEY
Donate a Kong? A nylabone? A hercules?
Donate a crate,an x-pen or baby gates?
Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate?
Donate a leash,collar,halti,promise collar or a gentle leader?
Donate some treats or a bag of food?
Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
Go to the local shelter and see if that dog is the breed the shelter says it is or go with rescue to be a second opinion on the dog?
Make a few phone calls?
Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
Donate long distance calling cards?
Donate a gift certificate to a pet store?
Donate a raffle item if your club is holding a fund raiser?
Donate flea stuff (Advantage, Frontline,etc.)?
Donate heartworm pills?
Donate a canine first aid kit?
Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed?
Pay the boarding fees to board a dog for a week? Two weeks?
Be a Santi-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days?
Make book purchases through Amazon via a web site that contributes commissions earned to a rescue group?
Conduct a home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit?
Go with rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog?
Have a yard sale and donate the money to rescue?
Be a volunteer to do rescue in your area?
Take advantage of a promotion on the web or store offering a free ID tag and instead of getting it for your own dog, have the tag inscribed with your Club's name and phone # to contact?
Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs?
Donate vet services or can you help by donating a spay or neuter each year or some vaccinations?
Interview vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues?
Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs on dogs currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue?
Help organize and run fundraising events?
Help clean and organize a garage/storage room full of "rescue" stuff.
Donate or loan a portable dog run to someone who doesn't have a quarantine area for quarantining a dog that has an unknown vaccination history and has been in a shelter?
Give a hug to a rescue person who has been having a bad day/week whatever...
Go to the foster home once a week with your children and dogs to help socialize the dog?
Help the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what those foster dogs poop)
Offer to test the foster dog with cats?
Pay for the dog to be groomed?
Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs?
Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized?
Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a club's fundraising event?
Help pet owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training questions?
Put together an *Owner's Manual* for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed?
Provide post-adoption follow up or support?
Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs?
Volunteer to screen calls for that ad?
Microchip your own pups if you are a breeder, and register the chips, so if your dogs ever come into rescue, you can be contacted to take responsibility for your pup?
Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder?
Buy two of those really neat dog-items you "have to have" and donate one to Rescue?
Make financial arrangements in your will to cover the cost of caring for your dogs after you are gone - so Rescue won't have to?
Make a bequest in your will to your local or national Rescue?
Donate your professional services as an accountant or lawyer?
Donate other services if you run your own business?
Loan your cell phone (and cover costs for any calls) to s/one driving a rescued dog?
Donate your *used* dog dryer when you get a new one?
Let rescue know when you'll be flying and that you'd be willing to be a rescued dog's escort?
Donate a doggy seatbelt?
Donate a grid for a van or other vehicle?
Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed?
Donate other types of doggy toys that might be safe for rescued dogs?
Donate materials for a quarantine area at a foster's home?
Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect the foster's floor?

GRAPE • PO Box 124 • Springfield, PA 19064 • E-Mail: grape_rescue@yahoo.com