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Newsletter
Fall 2021

Every Animal Should Enjoy Life!

Contents

• Pawloween Contest ..............................2
• Tips to Keep Your Pet Safe This Fall...3
• Happy Tails: Success Story ................ 4
• Paws & Pours Event.............................. 5
• Round Up for Easel! ............................ 7
• Contact Us/Hours of Operation.....7
• Pet of the Month ................................. 8
• Become a Monthly Donor............... 10
• Volunteering with EASEL ..............10

Angela States
Veterinary Guardian

Fund Exemplifies A
Method of Legacy

Giving
Spotlight on Our Volunteers:

There are so many ways to donate
and make a difference with charities Caroline Vietti
like EASEL today – from individual
donations to corporate matches to I lived in South Carolina,” she explains. “I
participating in one of our fundraising For Caroline Vietti, volunteering with started volunteering there. There were
events. What many members of our animals is a passion that has followed her a lot of stray dogs that needed help. As I
community may not realize is that there from state to state. got older and had kids, I couldn’t do it as
is also another way to help that can Three years ago, when she began much.”
continue to support EASEL after we volunteering with EASEL, she started Now in New Jersey, she seems to have
leave this earth: legacy giving. gradually by coming to the pack walks – picked back up where she left off – and
According to Nonprofit Quarterly to walk the shelter dogs each Saturday. now, she tries to match “perfect fits” as
(NPO), legacy giving (also called As she got to meet the various lovable part of the adoption team tasked with
planned giving) refers to gifts that dogs and their personalities, she also finding “furever” homes. That work entails
donors plan to distribute from their began to learn how to train them. From figuring out what a potential adopting
estate after their death. there, her participation grew. She began family’s needs are – whether they have
“These gifts are generally made by volunteering at the shelter’s Vet Nights. a fence, what they are looking for, and
long-time, loyal donors who believe Most recently, she has added adoption more.
in the need of the group to exist work to her list of activities. “There are a lot of good fits,” she says.
after their own life is over, and more Caroline isn’t a newbie to this kind of “But you also have the cases where
important, who have faith that the work, though. someone wants a puppy but they are not
organization will continue to do a “When I was younger, I worked at going to be home for eight or nine hours
good job for years and years to come,” the ASPCA (American Society for the a day. We try to steer them toward the
the NPO site reads. “These are not Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) when
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