Volunteers Needed

                                                            Volunteers Needed!



Do you love helping animals in need?  Do you want to make a difference in the life of a hungry pet?

Rex The TV Terrier, Inc. provides food, supplies, prescription medicine and food and limited veterinary assistance to people suffering from financial hardship.  By supporting people in their time of need, we are keeping pets in their loving homes and out of shelters and rescues.  Now, more than ever, our help is desperately needed.


                                                          Fundraising Assistant


We are seeking someone who can spare a few hours a week, at their convenience, to help us seek donations either through campaigns, grants, programs or sales.  We have done Double Good popcorn fundraisers, See's Candy Yumraisers, auctions, merchandise sales and direct pleas for donations.  But we need to find more revenue streams.  We need someone to find more opportunities, whether that involves finding corporate donations, more companies that provide sales fundraising or grants.  This position requires searching the internet and networking, creative thinking and working cooperatively with our staff.  This is a volunteer position and there is no compensation aside from the satisfaction of helping to put food in the bowl of a hungry pet.


                                                           Event Coordinator

We are seeking someone who can coordinate an online charity auction, including helping to procure donated items, downloading photos and descriptions of these items, monitoring the auction and making sure that items are delivered to winning bidders by coordinating shipping with the item donors.  The auction is administered by Better Good, which has online auction software and support to achieve the completion of the auction.  Computer experience is necessary, it is a fairly simple program, which offers both telephone and online support to help set up the auction as well as keep track of donors and bidders.  The timeline for the auction is flexible.  This is a volunteer position and offers no monetary compensation.


If you are willing and able to help with either of these volunteer positions, please emal

Rexthetvterrier@yahoo.com and under subject line write "volunteer"


Thank you for helping!


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