Animal Shelter Proposal

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Our group is over joyed to represent a proposal to you that will hopefully strike interest into you. The proposal could help bring a better and more fluent working environment within the Bartholomew County Humane Society (BCHS). For several weeks the group of Kaitlin Charles, Clayton Wilkerson, and Sam Noblitt have been working toward an idea that will benefit the BCHS. The proposal would be for the BCHS to teammate up with the local schools. Students that are attending these schools could be informed about the experience of volunteering and how it is able to affect the community. Through volunteers and workers, the message could be spread. The animal shelter would also offer a scholarship to the volunteers from the school. The BCHS is known for taking in hundreds of unwanted animals in the county. Every time a new animal is placed in your care, it increases the amount of spending and stress on the workplace. With some many animals, …show more content…

A recent survey issued by Sam Noblitt on October 11, 2017, given to the BCHS, showed general information of the environment of workers and volunteers. It was used to measure the quality of how they were treated and their own opinions. Only five of the ten surveys were actually returned, and only one of the responses was from a volunteer. This survey stated that overall, the workers and volunteers are treated well. The responses showed that the ratio of animals to staff at the BCHS was greater than two to one. The exact ratio is not known, but it is greatly unbalanced. Simply, there are many more animals than there are workers or volunteers. One way to even out the ratio is to hire more workers and volunteers. A response given in that survey, stated that more volunteers would benefit the Humane Society. This method definitely has a lower cost than hiring more workers. Creating a partnership with the local schools will help find the needed volunteers for the

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