In a world where animals too often suffer in silence—abandoned, abused, or neglected—planned giving offers a rare opportunity to turn compassion into action that extends far beyond our lifetimes.
Leaving a gift in your Will or trust is a deeply personal and powerful way to ensure your values live on, helping animals find safety, healing, and a chance at a peaceful life. While many of us support shelters and rescues during our lives, few realize how simple and impactful it is to continue that support through a legacy gift. Planned giving isn’t just about funding—it’s about changing the landscape for animals in need, permanently. Your legacy can help reduce emergencies by addressing their root causes, funding education, outreach, and systemic change.
Your legacy: not just response, but prevention
Looking ahead, your legacy could mean more than responding to crises—it could mean preventing them altogether. Shelter workers and volunteers dedicate time, skill, effort, and patience every day to animals who have known only suffering. But to truly break the cycle, they need resources that sustain long-term change. By leaving a gift in your Will, you ensure that generations of advocates can continue this essential mission. Imagine funding the outreach that teaches empathy in schools, the vet care that heals invisible wounds, the training that transforms frightened strays into loving companions. These efforts, made possible through your planned gift, offer animals more than survival—they offer hope, dignity, and a future where cruelty is not tolerated, but prevented.
A simple and flexible way to make lasting change
One of the most compelling aspects of planned giving is its accessibility. Making a gift in your Will costs you nothing now. You retain full control over your assets during your lifetime, and your plans can be adjusted or revoked at any time, for any reason. Whether you choose to leave a portion of your estate, a retirement fund, life insurance policy, or a bank or brokerage account, every gift—large or small—has the potential to make a difference. And unlike one-time donations, legacy gifts provide long-term, sustained support, allowing animal welfare organizations to plan, grow, and act boldly, knowing they have the backing of people who care deeply about their mission.
Giving voice to your values through your legacy
Beyond the financial benefits, planned giving is a statement of belief. It’s a way to convey your values when you’re no longer here to do so. A Will that includes a gift for animals sends a powerful message: that every life matters, that compassion should be the norm, and that we each have a role to play in building a more humane future. You may never meet the animals whose lives you will save, but your generosity will echo through their stories—the puppy that finds a loving home or the cat that receives medical care and gets a second chance.
Choose compassion, create a future
Make a gift in your Will and join us on this complex but essential journey. Your planned gift could ensure that animals are not only rescued but respected, not only treated but cherished. It takes vision to imagine a world without cages, cruelty, or neglect—but it takes action to make that vision a reality. Legacy giving bridges both. It allows you to make a difference that costs you nothing now, yet lives on to protect the voiceless. Choose compassion. Choose impact. Choose to be remembered not just for what you built or achieved, but for the lives you saved. Make your legacy one of kindness, and help shape a world where animals are no longer abandoned—they are protected, forever.
