Banfield Charitable Trust Offers Grants to Keep Pets and People Together

The Portland-based Banfield Charitable Trust, the charitable arm of Banfield Pet Hospitals, is offering grants to organizations working to help keep pets and their families together. At this time, the trust is pursuing the following funding priorities: support for nonprofit organizations working to keep pets with their families; pet food distribution programs; companion horse feeding programs; and hospice patient/pet support programs.

Grants, which typically range from $500 to $10,000, are awarded to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations working to keep pets in their current homes. Examples of fundable projects include programs that provide a direct solution to avoid surrender or separation of companion pets (including horses) from families; basic veterinary care for financially challenged companion pet owners and families; programs that help the homeless, seriously ill, homebound, and disabled care for or keep their pets; education programs that directly relate to keeping companion pets and their people together; behavior modification programs to correct inappropriate companion pet behaviors so that pets may remain in the home; disaster preparedness and response; and programs that provide pet food as part of an overall assistance program.

Visit the trust's Web site for grant guidelines and an application form, as well as information about past grants.

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Primary Subject: Animal Welfare