Past Events
2009 was "Friends" first full year as a nonprofit. We held fundraisers and participated in many community outreach events. A few of those are listed below. We also had a table/booth at other community related events:
Wildlife Conservation Network Expo. Adoptapalooza, Fall Flurry (special thanks to Stella for walking and raising $1000 for friends in sponsorships!), Hawaiian theme adoption event at SVACA, Barktoberfest & K9 Training Lab Summer Pawty. It's been a busy first year and we will continue to raise funds and awareness in 2010 for SVACA!
We held 4 DINING OUT FUNDRAISERS in 2009 at Fresh Choice, Quiznos, Armadillo Willy's and Gelato Classico. Thank you so much to those restaurants for offering fundraising programs.
PET PHOTOS WITH SANTA (12/5 & 6/09)
Our special thanks to Pet Food Express in Campbell for letting us host our pet photos again this year. (Pics to come!)
WHISKER WONDERLAND (11/7/09)
SVACA had reduced fees on all cat adoptions and "Friends" with a little help from Santa - was talking pet photos.
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDANCE & THE SF 49'ERS (9/29/09)
Click on the link to check out this video from 9/29 - a fundraiser with Canine Companions for Independance and 5 of the 49ers players at SVACA!! We would also like to thank the SF 49'ers for their generous donation to our organization. GO 9er's!!!
FLYBALL (5/28/2009)
We had a table at a Flyball event in San Jose. Holly Cow those dogs are flying!!! This is a fast paced action packed fun thing for dogs and their humans. The really great part was we discovered about a 1/3 of the dogs are rescue, from shelters or other rescue organizations. These dogs were rejected by their previous owners for being too hyper, but luckily adopted by people who found this great way to keep those fuzzy friends happy and busy!!!
We gave all the rescue dogs a special ribbon and took a group picture. It was amazing. A special thanks to Tonya Jensen for all her effort on the ribbons and photos. Also a special shout to Kenlyn and Bronwyn for collecting donations from the teams!
SILENT AUCTION (5/2/09)
Silent Auction - We had a blast at the Adoptathon/Silent Auction. There were a number of homeless animal friends that found a new forever home and we raised $2,000 in our auction!!
* THE SPAGHETTI/BINGO FUNDRAISER (1/30/09) was a great success! This is an annual event that is hosted by the Santa Clara Youth Commission to help raise funds for SVACA. "Friends" helps to sell tickets and serve up that wonderful spaghetti to the 200+ participants. Thank you to all that participated.
PET PHOTOS WITH SANTA
(12/5&6/08) Thank you to Pet Food Express for letting us set up for the weekend and have so much fun taking picture of animal companions and their people. Special thanks to our 3 Santas and volunteers. Look for us again in Campbell around the holidays.
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