Helping Paws, Inc.

Thank you to The Nonprofit Show for highlighting the ResourceFULLness Award through Eide Bailly. We are incredibly grateful to be the 2024 recipients. This transformative gift will allow to bring more dogs into our program, allowing more applicants to receive a service dog sooner. Watch the episode here: https://bit.ly/48IGccB

Helping Paws is honored to be selected as this year's Eide Bailly LLP's ResourceFULLness Award. We're thrilled to show you the impact it will have on our "More Dogs, More Impact" Breeding Program Expansion! Thank you so much Eide Bailly. Watch the video or click on the link below to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gZCwU935

We are looking for folks interested in dog sitting, foster training, and committee volunteer opportunities, with possible future opportunity to join the Board of Directors.

Helping Paws is currently seeking talented, community minded individuals to join our volunteer corp. Helping Paws relies on volunteers to fulfill our mission and represent us as ambassadors in the community. Offering a wide range of engagement opportunities, we are looking for persons interested in general, dog sitting, foster training, and committee volunteer opportunities, with possible future opportunity to join the Board of Directors. What We’re Looking For: We welcome individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. Ideal volunteers, committee, or board candidates possess: 1. Passion: A genuine commitment to accessibility and ableism advocacy, and community well-being. 2. Expertise: Skills in areas such as dog behavior and training, healthcare, social service, finance, legal, human resources, marketing, or fundraising are welcomed. 3. Availability: Willingness to volunteer as needed, participate in monthly committee or board meetings (in-person or virtual), and contribute actively. 4. Connections: Networks within the Twin Cities community, social service, business, or philanthropic sectors. How to Apply: If you’re ready to make a difference, please submit an online General Volunteer application at https://lnkd.in/gjN2pn2A. Take the first step towards making a difference and apply now! For those interested in committee or board member opportunities, you may also submit your resume or a summary of your expertise and experience, and a brief statement of interest to helpingpaws_interest@outlook.com. Feel free to share any relevant experience, skills, or ideas you’d bring to our Fundraising, Donor Management, Marketing & PR, or Personnel committees, or to our board. Helping Paws values diversity including opportunities to enrich the diversity of the board. Volunteer and Committee applicants undergo thorough review by Helping Paws. Board candidate applicants undergo review by the Nominations committee, considering their background, skills, and alignment with the existing board. The committee then recommends candidates for board membership. Final decisions are made by a majority vote during a duly held meeting of the board of directors. Don't miss this chance to make a difference in the lives of our graduates and the communities we serve. Apply today and join us in our mission. Application Deadline: August 31, 2024

Helping Paw's annual Gala, the Tail Waggin' Dinner, is on September 28th. We will have over 450 people in attendance and a big silent auction with over 100 items. We would love to help you promote your business by submitting it to our silent auction. It could be a gift basket, gift card, or service. Feel free to download our form. https://lnkd.in/gkGt-svw

Helping Paws Committee/Board Members Needed Helping Paws, Inc., is a leading nonprofit organization that breeds, trains, and places assistance dogs such as service dogs with individuals with physical disabilities, or veterans with PTSD as well as facility dogs with professionals in courthouse, educational, and mental health fields. If you’re ready to make a difference, please submit an online General Volunteer application at https://lnkd.in/gjN2pn2A

The most consequential relationships in my life are with members of the U.S. military and veteran communities. They've impressed a permanent mark on my story and I'm thrilled with PeakMade Real Estate's action in creating Employee Resource Group's, which provide space for associates to foster connections centered around their unique identities. One such group is our Veteran's ERG, which I'm lucky to act as executive sponsor for and work along side our chair, Michael Ruybal, who serves in the U.S. Army. Last week I moderated a panel where Michael, along with Ashlie Ellis, a U.S. Army veteran, and Cari Collins, an active military spouse, shared with genuine candor their experiences and an invitation to participate in recognition of our veterans, active duty service members, and military families more often than today. Within the daily 9-5 is the opportunity to ensure we're meeting military members and families where they're at as they seek civilian jobs, and while there are dozens of organizations doing that work, here are a few I'm particularly fond of and that our ERG looks to as we widen our impact. RecruitMilitary creates connections between veterans and hiring managers across the country and is somewhere I look every time I have room within my teams, and Hiring Our Heroes and The Honor Foundation are similar such organizations with the goal of providing a smooth transition to the private sector for veterans. Veterati gives civilians the chance to offer mentoring sessions in their respective fields to transitioning military and family members - the impact of these sessions is immediate and often has widespread effects. Outside the workplace, I'd be remiss to not call attention to Helping Paws, Inc., which aims to improve the lives of veterans by partnering them with service dogs, easing the integration between their military experiences and civilian life. I fostered and trained a dog, Mulligan, several years ago and he was ultimately paired with a U.S. Army veteran named Bri - it remains one of the best, best things I've had the opportunity to do. However you mark Memorial Day, I hope a resounding message is that the most significant memorial in honoring the sacrifice of our veterans and their families are ordinary actions we take in the everyday, not just one day.

Wonderful volunteers, changing lives every day!

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