San Francisco Aid for Animals (SFAfA) gave out its first annual San Francisco Aid for Animals Making a Change Award November 20th at the San Francisco Veterinary Medical Association holiday meeting at the Cliff House.
San Francisco Aid for Animals is a charitable fund dedicated to keeping companion animals and their families together. Grants provided through local veterinarians help pet guardians with financial hardship deal with urgent, treatable conditions to prevent needless suffering, euthanasia or surrender of their animal companions. Every year SFAfA raises money and then administers grants directly to veterinarians and then each veterinarian matches the money with in kind services of an equal, but often greater value. To date, SFAfA has raised and donated more than $50,000 that has been matched to raise the final donated care to a value of 100,000 and saved over 75 pets in need!
Tonight SFAfA awarded the “Top Fundraising Hospital through the Donation Dog House Program 2014” to Mission Pet Hospital. They collected the money from their clients through the Donation Dog House Program, and in fact have collected over four of the ten thousand that has been collected in the last three years. JJ Bergovoy has done much of the work at the hospital, but could not be there that night. Accepting the award was Dr. Dave Gordon who has been at the Hospital for 14 years.
Also celebrated that night was Dr. Margo Mehl a boarded surgeon at VCA-San Francisco Veterinary Specialty Hospital. She received the Veterinarian of the Year award due to her embodiment of what SFAfA stands for. She has assembled multiple grants, gotten other doctors to use their grants and then even donated more in time, effort and services than any other veterinarian out of her passion to save as many lives as possible.
San Francisco Aid for Animals has been in existence for the last four years. It is an organization that was developed to address the economic downturn and the continued needs of low to middle income people who cannot afford emergency medical treatments (with likely positive outcomes) for their beloved pets. To date we have saved over 75 lives!
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