ASPCA chief exec Matt Bershadker is grossly overpaid & ASPCA is not the national umbrella for your local SPCA, among other key points NEW YORK, N.Y.––“The heartbreaking commercials are almost impossible to ignore: Sarah McLachlan singing to images of suffering animals and making an urgent appeal for donations to the American Society for the Prevention of […]
Are animal charity donors at risk from the Blackbaud data security breach?
Consequences of the data security failure are still just coming to light CHARLESTON, South Carolina––How many animal charity donors’ personal information may be at risk from a four-month security breach at the fundraising, data management, and financial services firm Blackbaud? The number may be in the tens of thousands, or even the millions, but even […]
Do Hurricane Harvey animals need “Best Friends” like these?
Pit bull advocates defame the Houston SPCA & Beaumont animal rescue center BEAUMONT, Texas––The foulest murky depths in Beaumont, Texas a week after Hurricane Harvey were not those left by the storm itself, but rather by an ad hoc coalition of pit bull advocates whetting old grudges against the Houston SPCA, possible dog thieves […]
Brian Davies puts $49,562 toward Harvey animal rescue, challenges others to match it
International Fund for Animal Welfare founder reaches out from semi-retirement (See also Hurricane Harvey: who is doing what for animals? and Tropical Storm Harvey: helping animals caught in harm’s way.) HOUSTON, Texas––Five days into the Hurricane-turned-tropical-storm Harvey crisis, the largest transfer of funds to local animal relief announced by outside organizations remains the $49,562 sent to […]