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Safe Haven For Cats

Raleigh, North Carolina

Cause Description:
Since opening, SAFE Haven has orchestrated the adoptions of more than14,000 cats and kittens and spayed or neutered more than 50,000 cats, kittens and small dogs in our clinic. During the last fiscal year, 1,300 cats and kittens were adopted; 5,700 cats, kittens and small dogs were sterilized in our clinic; 405 animals were fed through our Pet Food Pantry; and 350 cats were temporarily housed in 45 foster care homes. We took 276 cats from the Wake County Animal Shelter and other traditional county shelters. The shelter began in the two-car, heated and air- conditioned garage of founder/President Pam Miller. SAFE Haven’s first 400 cats were adopted from that garage. Five years later, SAFE Haven moved to a larger facility in a business center on Durant Road in Raleigh, opening the Triangle’s first permanent no-kill shelter for cats. In 2001, the SAFE Care Spay/Neuter Clinic was opened, a major initiative. At that time, it was the only freestanding clinic for cats in North Carolina. In 2012 SAFE Haven launched a pet food pantry to supply food on a temporary basis to low-income households in danger of having to give up their companion animals. SAFE Haven has expanded six times and now occupies rental space in three buildings: one space for the adoption center; one for the spay/neuter clinic, and the third for the Pet Food Pantry. SAFE Haven gets no government funds and relies entirely on individual and corporate donors, grants and its own fund-raising initiatives, including the Tuxedo Cat Ball. SAFE Haven spends 88 percent of its annual budget on its programs and services. Only 12 percent goes to administrative costs. SAFE Haven is also the recipient of $417,000 (yearly) in donated time from 125 volunteers per week.

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