Paw Prints
The front lobby of the Adoption Center will feature a wall with the names of supporters who choose to leave their “Paw Print” that guests can see for years to come.
Bronze: $250
Silver: $500
Gold: $1,000
Helen Woodward Animal Center Campaign for Caring
As our Center continues to grow and succeed, the need to ensure that our facilities keep pace with our progressive ideas and with the community’s growing needs has become critical. Waiting lists grow and available space shrinks each year. The current infrastructure no longer meets the needs of our many programs and we have exceeded the capacity of the Center as it currently exists.
Our primary objectives of Campaign for Caring are to expand existing structures or construct new buildings to enable us to deliver the highest level of care, to further enhance our programs, and to meet the needs of our community and we need YOUR HELP to reach our goals and continue saving the lives of orphan pets.
It’s not too late to secure your place in our new Adoption Center.
These opportunities allow you to make a gift in memory or in honor of a beloved pet or family member, and give you a chance to leave your legacy.
It’s not too late to be part of this monumental step forward for orphan pets. A second wave of plaques and pavers are currently available for purchase to be installed periodically in our new adoptions building.
Carved Pavers
Carved Pavers with personalization will be featured in the Kennel Courtyard of the Adoption Center.
Paver Paw: $1,000
Tribute Paver: $2,500
Campaign for Caring Updates
July 2019: On July 17, Helen Woodward Animal Center will at last be opening the doors of our new Adoptions Building. This new construction, a year-and-a-half in the making, will bring our adoptable dogs completely indoors, protecting them from rain and heat and making kennel cleaning and access for the staff much more efficient. Rolling service doors will be opened during good weather to afford the canines access to fresh air and natural breezes and large skylights placed throughout the Adoptions Center provide bright sunlight to our canine and feline areas.
Building design, especially at the kennels, is intended to be environmentally responsible and inspiring at once. Open and airy with lots of daylight, the spaces are nice to be in but they also do an important job to lessen energy use and naturally cool the inhabitants (animals and people both). Animal movement was a primary consideration in the planning; limiting the animal’s exposure and visibility to other animals when moving through the facility was of critical importance to maintains a quieter, less stressful environment for all human and animal occupants.
A state of the art, drastically expanded hospital and surgery center is provided within the facility and is easily accessed by animal intake, medical wards and animal kennels, while being nearly invisible to the general public. Dedicated to Adoptions, these exam rooms, treatment areas, operating rooms, ICU and recovery wards allow the medical team every resource in modern animal care. Isolation suites allows for proper separation and care of animals with gastrointestinal and airborne disease, without bringing them into the general hospital spaces. A series of ante rooms, pressurization and mechanical systems are provided to ensure a safe and controlled environment.
From animal and partner arrival to health and behavior review, the building provides dedicated spaces for the staff to function optimally and efficiently while minimizing risk, exposure and reducing animal stress from transfer intakes, which bring dozens of orphan pets to the Center multiple times a week.
Perhaps equally valuable to the ability to provide the very best in animal care, is to take care of the people who dedicate their lives to them. A vibrant and enjoyable staff lounge, with natural light and a view to the outdoors, as well as upgraded lockers and restrooms are also part of the new building’s design.
July 2015: PHASE II of the Campaign is well underway and we expect to break ground in fall 2017! This phase represents the most significant aspects of this project in terms of impact, and will include a complete rebuild of our aging Adoptions Center to meet the needs of our rapidly expanding program. Take a look at the latest architectural plans.
April 2011: PHASE I of the Campaign has been completed! The first portion of the much-needed Capital Campaign began in 2009 and included introducing a new small animal veterinary hospital, as well as a new administrative building.
