| Florida Voices for Animals Inc. |
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| Circle of 100 Friends
Dear Friend of the Animals, I hope you have read our previous newsletter with the plea for supporting our recent educational efforts. Please understand the urgency of our request to continue to employ Nikki Benoit as Florida Voices for Animals (FVA) Outreach Coordinator. Nikki was hired for a 6 month contract which began in March 2008. Only through your support and donations can we justify extending this contract. A recent Vegan Outreach agreement allowed us to keep her employed until mid October, and donations have extended this until the end of November. Since hiring Nikki, FVA has initiated an incredible campaign to organize our volunteer base into more activism to educate our community. Committees have been formed and are actively meeting to expand our educational prominence in the community. Nikki has coordinated and facilitated an impressive number of volunteers, organized a volunteer appreciation picnic, spends countless hours at the local colleges distributing animal rights and vegetarian promotion literature, gives presentations to college classes, handles all phone messages, does media interviews, and coordinates numerous tabling events. Our plan is to make at least a 3 year commitment to continuing these current campaigns spearheaded by Nikki. In order to accomplish this goal we need $100,000. To this end we have created the �Circle of Friends� campaign. If 100 people donate $1000 each we will reach our goal. But any amount is helpful. To put it another way, if 1000 people donate $100 each, we would accomplish the same goal. No amount is too small. Any amount will help the animals. For each $2600 we receive, we can extend our campaign an additional month. If you, like me, want these wonderful campaigns to continue and grow to help educate our community and reduce animal suffering, please show us your support by making a donation earmarked to �education campaign.� A recent donor made a $1750 donation to FVA, after researching through our newsletter archives and seeing for herself how much we have accomplished on our budget and how well we have invested our money. I promise you that we are very frugal when it comes to our expenses and that every dollar donated is appreciated and used very carefully to benefit animals. We do much more than education; we help local causes, including other local groups, activists and sanctuaries. We have rescued many animals, including some farm animals who we have taken to sanctuaries and continue to help with their care. We have helped Katrina animal victims, spay neuter campaigns, legislative efforts, rewards for cruelty cases, volunteering at sanctuaries and more. We know the economy is troubled and we all have our commitments, but I hope you can find a way to support the issues that matter to your heart. Helping the innocent nonhuman animals who suffer at human hands is a real need in our community. For the animals, I am extremely humbled and grateful, Myriam Parham, President |
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