Snake River Animal Shelter Receives Grant from Idaho Community Foundation
Idaho Falls, ID October 3, 2009–The Snake River Animal Shelter (SRAS) has received a grant of $2000 from the Idaho Community Foundation (ICF) to assist in supporting Site Preparation and Emergency Fire Water Supply at the shelter’s Idaho Falls site.
The SRAS is a 501 c (3) not-for-profit organization created to promote quality care and compassion for domestic animals in the upper Snake River Valley. The SRAS goal is to build a state-of-the-art shelter facility to create and maintain an environment where neglected animals can be temporarily housed, treated, and placed in caring permanent homes.
When completed the shelter’s main building will provide dog and cat kennels, quarantine and holding kennels, a food preparation area, laundry services and administrative offices. In addition to the main building, a community education facility will provide meeting space to support education and training classes.
“The grant will make it possible for us to actually start work on the infrastructure portion of the construction process”, said Mary Sturgill, the SRAS Interim Executive Director. “The Idaho Community Foundation deserves special thanks for helping us with this.”
For more information on the Snake River Animal Shelter contact Mary Sturgill at (208) 360-7544 or log on to the web site at http://www.snakeriveranimalshelter.org
The Idaho Community Foundation is a statewide nonprofit organization composed of over 400 individual funds, pooled together for efficient management. Total assets are more than $55 million. Since its inception in 1988, ICF has made charitable distributions totaling more than $41 million.
