Summary
Organization name
Animal Help Now
other names
Animal Help Now, AHNow
2010
Tax id (EIN)
27-2034873
Category
Animal-Related
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
2525 Arapahoe, #E4-705Boulder, CO 80302
US
Your donation:
- Funds AHNow's Wildlife Emergency service, used by caring people across the United States hundreds of times a day to help injured and orphaned wildlife.
- Funds AHNow's Wildlife Conflict service, which empowers people to humanely resolve "nuisance" wildlife issues.
- Funds the new Pet Help and Rescue app, which will give companion animals a better chance of surviving wildfires and other disasters.
- Provides humane education to the public.
- Supports results-driven wildlife cruelty investigative efforts.
Testimonials
Animal Help Now is a remarkable service that will save many lives. I applaud AHNow for helping injured animals and for helping raise awareness of the many human-related threats faced by wildlife.
Daniel Klem, Jr, Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology and a Leading Expert on Bird Window Strikes, Muhlenberg College, PA
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/academics/biology/faculty/klem.html
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Animal Help Now connects the public directly to wildlife rehabilitators. It's a great leap forward in providing wildlife assistance!
Kai Williams, Executive Director, International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council
https://theiwrc.org/
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Anyone who cares about wild or domestic animals who are injured or in need of care should know about Animal Help Now. As human-animal interactions continue to increase over time, their important service will become even more critical.
Che Green, Executive Director, Faunalytics.org
http://faunalytics.org/
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Last Wednesday night on my hotline shift, I had the opportunity and the need to use this app. There was a call from Moody, TX, south of Waco, about a young raccoon about 3 weeks old. It was found in the woods by the caller's girlfriend while they were walking there. It appeared weak and dehydrated, and no mom was in sight. While the caller was on the phone, I could hear the baby in the background sounding quite upset.
I called four rehabbers and no one picked up until I finally contacted a rehabber in East Texas. While she was helpful and interested, she was just too far away to help immediately. I used the Animal Help Now app and found the Waco Emergency Vet Clinic open all night. One of their female techs had experience with opossums and volunteered to take the raccoon and rehab/release him. What a great save for this little guy! I was so pleased with the app and being able to help the little one!
Bob, Volunteer at Dallas/Fort Worth Wildlife Coalition Wildlife Hotline, July 2014
http://www.dfwwildlife.org/
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I am very impressed with the work your group has done to help wildlife across the country. I am a board member of the Wisconsin Wildlife Rehabilitator's Association and can help get the word out.
Sue DeBruin, Rehabilitation Program Director,
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary (Green Bay, WI), December 2014
http://www.baybeachwildlife.com/
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Our area clinics each take about 35 raccoons, 50 squirrels, 10 skunks, and 60 opossums orphans per year and then they're full. At that point, they used to tell callers to scour the web and try to find help elsewhere, or they give them our number. I can happily report that they now direct them to AHNow!"
Angel Wintrode, Founder and Director, Bi-State Wildlife Hotline
http://www.wildlifehotline.com/
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I think this is such a great idea and I want to pass along this great app as much as I possibly can.
Deanna, Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator (Waxhaw, NC), November 2014
http://www.ncwildliferehab.org/membership/membership_public.php
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Thank you for this great resource!
Robyn Graboski, President of Pennsylvania Association of Wildlife Rehabilitators
http://pawr.com/
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With ever-changing human relationships with other animals, and human's increasing destruction of wildlife habitat (i.e., wild animals' homes), an increasing number of animals will be imperiled. This makes Animal Help Now not just important at present, but increasingly important in the future.
Marc Bekoff, Animal Behaviorist and Author, University of Colorado, Boulder
http://marcbekoff.com/
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As a rehabber, I am all over your new feature that allows people to send photos to my cell. Photos allow me to help people reunited healthy fledgling birds with their families instead of unnecessarily admitting them into rehabilitation.
Donna Nespoli, Wildlife Rehabilitator, Colorado Native Bird Care and Conservation
http://www.coloradonativebird.org/
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A gift for the compassionate.
Jonas Borkholder, Wildlife Rehabilitator
http://www.cecinc.com/
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[T]his is an amazing app and will most definitely save lives!
Flo Chiapetta and Gay Williams, Founders, Tailor's Wildlife Rescue Group
http://tailorswildlife.com/Tailors_Wildlife/Welcome.html
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It's great to see someone taking the time to make a difference for animals in their greatest moment of need.
Dean A. Hendrickson, DVM, MS; Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Surgeons;
Professor of Surgery, Colorado State University
https://www.acvs.org/
http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/dean-hendrickson-dvm-ms-dacvs
Mission
Animal Help Now (AHNow) develops apps that empower humans to help individual animals, especially during crises. AHNow also develops and fosters a community of caring individuals to live in harmony with all animals.
Detail
Animal Help Now's Wildlife Emergency and Wildlife Conflict services, available at AHNow.org and through free iPhone and Android apps, immediately connect people involved with wildlife emergencies and conflicts, respectively, with the most appropriate time- and location-specific resources and services. Animal Help Now serves the entire United States.
Born from the Marshall Fire, Animal Help Now's new Pet Help and Rescue app, expected to be launched in late Q4 2022 or Q1 2023, is a neighbors-based approach to evacuating cats, dogs, and other animals when disasters threaten and strike.
Animal Help Now also advocates on behalf of wildlife and educates the public about minimizing everyday threats to wild animals (such as vehicle strikes, window strikes and cat and dog attacks).
In 2021, AHNow developed a new program - investigating incidents shared on social media involving acts of cruelty to wildlife. AHNow is able to use these same social media platforms to reach hundreds of thousands of people, generating tips that help identify those involved with producing and distributing such media.
In addition, Animal Help Now provides guidance on finding assistance for emergencies involving domestic animals, including lost and found companion animals, animal abuse/neglect, etc.
The Animal Help Now program not only serves people who are trying to help animals – and by extension serves the animals themselves – it also serves animal emergency professionals by providing them with an effective referral tool they and their clients can use to quickly find help for wildlife emergencies.
Equally important, Animal Help Now helps elevate the status of animals in society in that it demonstrates by its very existence that animal emergencies deserve immediate and effective attention.
Background Statement
Animal Help Now (AHNow) began in October 2009, when a group of experienced animal and environmental advocates convened in Boulder, Colorado, to discuss the idea of creating an online central information source that would help increase awareness of animal issues and provide resources for those who want to help. In 2010, the group decided to focus on a specific, pressing problem faced by people who want to help animals - the difficulty of finding appropriate and timely help for animals in distress.
The first edition of the Animal Help Now website (www.ahnow.org) debuted in September 2011. It served wildlife and domestic animal emergencies in Colorado. The site then expanded to Texas. In June 2014, AHNow expanded its wildlife functionality across the United States, offering the US public immediate access to wildlife rehabilitators, wildlife hotlines, wildlife rescues (including full coastal coverage for marine animal emergencies) and veterinarians who treat wildlife.
In 2015, Animal Help Now added support for people who are experiencing conflicts with wildlife, such as raccoons in a chimney or skunks under a porch.
In 2018, AHNow added key functionality allowing the public to quickly and easily connect with humane wildlife conflict operators and consultants.
In early 2019, Animal Help Now unveiled a self-service system allowing wildlife rehabilitators to make modifications to their AHNow listings.
In 2020, AHNow finished a year-long effort to revamp its analytics, formalized its software testing and the quality control of its data, directed new fundraising appeals at users of AHNow's services, and initiated an ambitious effort to address the increasing number of emergency calls coming directly into the organization.
In 2021, AHNow launched its wildlife cruelty investigations program and secured its first charges, including a felony violation of Florida's Marine Turtle Protection Act.
In 2022, in response to the Marshall Fire, AHNow began development of its Pet Help a Rescue app (PHaR.org), which will give cats and dogs and other companion animals a better chance of surviving when disasters strike. The rollout of the app on iOS, Android, and the web will occur in late 2022 and early 2023.
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Organization Data
Boulder, CO 80302