October 20th Blog Post

I have my proposal finished, and now I am working on my blogs and pitch. For this month, I don`t have anything planned, and I only have to give my pitch for my project next Thursday (10/26/17). It only has to be 30 seconds to 1 minute. It also has to be memorized, which may be a bit hard for me, since I`m not all that good at memorizing things. 

However, I will probably take advantage of the fact that I am now allowed to use a note-card, as said by my teacher. 

I`m going to be working on my pitch in the next few days, and practice it a bunch of times to prepare for Thursday. I will be using today and the weekend to work on the pitch, and the week to practice it as much as possible in preparation. I hope to get my project idea approved so I can hold my fundraiser.

For next month, I am going to start my planning for my fundraiser. This will include, some general planning and also brainstorming ways that I can get out the information about my event to people I know and people around the neighborhood and in the community as well. 

Hopefully everything stays on track throughout this process.

October 6th Blog Post

I have been assigned a school project and it`s called 20 time. The purpose of this project is to learn things about a topic that we chose. everyone`s project I different, and for mine, I chose to organize a fundraiser for the animal rescue organization, PALS.

What is PALS?
P.A.L.S is a volunteer-run organization that was founded in 1996. P.A.L.S stands for Pet Adoption and Lifecare Society. P.A.L.S received the non-profit status in 2000, 4 years after being founded. What P.A.L.S does is they help cats and dogs who are in need of a home. P.A.L.S will place the animals into a secure, caring foster home until they can be put up for adoption and go to their forever home. P.A.L.S will supply all the veterinary care needed with the funding they get from donators.

P.A.L.S is a well-known, all-volunteer, non-profit organization, dedicated to solving the problem with homeless and abandoned animals by rescuing pets who are strays, abandoned, and unwanted. They are dedicated to the well-being of all animals. Unlike some other shelters and animal organizations, PALS is a non-kill organization and an animal will never be put down from just behavioral, logistical, or economical issues. An animal will only require euthanization if they are truly suffering, and their pain cannot be fully treated. Other, larger animal kill shelters, in Philadelphia for example, commonly put down unwanted animals that don`t get adopted within a short period of time.

56 % of dogs and 71% of cats that enter animal shelters are euthanized. More cats are euthanized than dogs because they are more likely to enter a shelter without any owner identification. There are many other statistics (according to the American Humane Society ) that show how much of a priority for organizations like P.A.L.S to make the number of animals in kill-shelters and on the streets go down drastically.

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