Volunteer: Takoma Area Organizations
Volunteer: Takoma Area Organizations
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Washington Humane Society
Volunteer and Foster Care Program Manager
202-723-5730, ext. 149
e-mail: volunteer@washhumane.org
The Washington Humane Society is a non-profit organization that helps thousand of the District’s homeless, abused, and neglected animals each year.
It is in thanks to our incredible volunteer work-force that we are able to provide comfort and care to more than 30,000 animals each year through our broad range of programs and services including: sheltering, adoption, low-cost spay and neuter, Humane Law Enforcement, lost and found, and humane education. As the only open-access shelters in Washington, DC no call for help goes unanswered, and no animal is ever turned away!
The Washington Humane Society offers a very wide range of volunteer opportunities, and new programs are being added all of the time.
VOLUNTEER:
Volunteers are essential to our day-to-day operations.
The Washington Humane Society (WHS), the only Congressionally-chartered animal welfare agency in the United States, has been the area’s leading voice for animals since 1870. As the only open-access shelter in the Nation’s Capital, the Washington Humane Society provides comfort and care to over 15,000 animals each year through its broad range of programs and services including sheltering, adoption, spay and neuter, CatNiPP, humane law enforcement, lost and found, human–animal therapy programs and humane education.
WHS operates the only open-access shelters in Washington, DC; a private shelter on 7319 Georgia Avenue, NW, and the DC Shelter (under contract by the Department of Health) on 1201 New York Avenue, NE.
In addition to the two animal shelters, WHS operates a low-cost National Capital Area Spay & Neuter Center, on 1001 L Street, NE, located in the heart of Capitol Hill, a new animal training facility located on 7315 Georgia Avenue, NW, and the administrative offices, located on 4590 Macarthur Blvd. NW.
WHS has ninety dedicated employees, twenty-two distinguished members on the Board of Directors and more than three-hundred and fifty active volunteers.
