July 2024

Business:

• Success Story: Change it up….share what gave you joy in the last 2 weeks 
• Diesel and Sam….

New Business:

• Email from PayPal Giving Fund confirming us a charity! YAY!!!
• PayPal is setup to receive grant payments
• Emails from Venmo!  Progress, Progress, Progress.  Thank you LYNN! 
• Facebook-verification badge- Lynn and Lidia
• RFI guidelines- spay and neuter reimburse up to $200 per spay and neuter, Due 7/14/24, 14 calendar days from the quarter the expense incurred with a picture showing they are a Mastiff, provide appropriate veterinary care and provide the documentation to the adopter
• Attach any vetting records to JF to the dogs
• Sully/Stathes vet bill- Claire send to Lynn

Dogs:

• Daisy (NC)- another chicken issue. I will never name a Mastiff Daisy Claire to outreach
• Xena (TN)- I emailed with the week off. Claire to outreach to discuss the dog behaviors and timeline on need to pull? South African or African Mastiff???? Short tail??
• Maizey (GA) the girl at the vets
• Journey- no nibbles
• Boulder (LA)- adopted from shelter

Fosters: No new

State of rescue: will be ongoing.

• Insurance connection made and application sent. Markel-
• Future of work: SOP edit done and setting up time to meet with Dustin
•  Fundraising:
  • Simba post after Venmo available
  • RFI quarterly: Ready for submission?
• Adopters: No new
• Adopters:
  • Juleigh Gregory (SC) LOVE HER but not available until 8/5
  • Jared Wilburn (VA) Kathleen initial interview complete-experience mastiff home NEEDS REFERENCES-DAWN TO SEND FOR REFERENCES, vet listed under sister
  • Wallton McMillan (NC) left vm for interview Claire to continue attempts 

• Adopters:
  • Peso- archived, no word from shelter.
  • Sully- needs vet bill paid and biopsy
  • Reecie: Fostered with Valerie Williams, formerly Jones. Valerie needs adoption contract. :D LISA
  • Zoey is being adopted- pending due to unexpected expenditures
  • Bella- long term foster due to HW treatment
  • Sandy and Brutus at Puppy Luv
  • Dom- chip? Dawn

• No plan to adopt:
  • Aza- boarding for vacation, long term foster due to health issues.
  • Dozer- long term foster due to health issues. PTS vote done and left to fosters discretion at this time.
  • Spec, Onna, Rex and Chance (Kelly’s Pack) plan to go to Susie Axtell

New Business

• Dogs:
  • Dog left at boarding- 7 yr old, He is good with other dogs and current on vaccinations. We are asking for a surrender app. Lidia to post in the meantime for foster asap. 
• Nala and Zeke- posted. Likely good with other dogs.
• Adopters: New app- GA –Willie Corey- Dawn to outreach
• State of rescue: will be ongoing.
  • Insurance connection made and application sent.
  • Future of work: SOP edit done and setting up time to meet with Dustin
  • Fundraising:
    • Simba post after Venmo available- Lidia is still working on this
    • RFI quarterly: submitted and approved. When we have insurance we get our $.

    
    

    Old Business

• Adopters
  • Juliegh Gregory (SC) LOVE HER but not available until 8/5.
  • Jared Wilburn (VA) Approved
  • Wallton McMillan (NC)
• Dogs:
  • Daisy (NC)- another chicken issue. I will never name a Mastiff Daisy
  • Xena (TN)- I emailed with the week off. Can anyone outreach to discuss the dog behaviors and timeline on need to pull? Any update Claire?
  • Maizey (GA)
  • Sully- ready to archive? Any word on vet findings?
  • Reecie: Fostered with Valerie Williams, formerly Jones. Valerie needs adoption contract. :D adopted, done
  • Zoey is being adopted- pending due to unexpected expenditures
  • Bella- long term foster due to HW treatment
  • Journey- Claire- I think the note in JF you made is for the wrong dog, can you check?

No plan to adopt   

• Aza- long term foster due to health issues.
• Dozer- long term foster due to health issues. PTS vote done and left to fosters discretion at this time.
• Spec, Onna, Rex and Chance (Kelly’s Pack) plan to go to Susie Axtell the  week of 8/25 to 8/30.  She may not keep all 4 but she will foster for  us.  I will share the "rest of the story at the meeting". Nothing to do at the moment.

Dogs

• Angus- Lidia to put photos on surrender form in JF. Dawn to call. 
• Bowser- Lidia repost, with new pics? 
• Lola- KW to outreach for better pics/video
• King- KW to follow up (in MB)
• Daisy and Xena- Claire to call again
• Maizey- Lidia to repost
• Sully- Claire to get vet bills to Lynn

People

• MA people- KW to reach out. 
• Laura Byun- Dawn to call and discuss dogs.
• 2023 "on hold"- KW to reach out and get an update
• New foster person- Claire to reach out
• Kathleen- Can you update on Lindsay and Tracy? 

Other

• SSMR email- Lidia to set up a folder for Venmo/Paypal stuff.
• Ebay issue - SSMR not showing up as a charity. Lidia to look into.

Financial update 

• RFI reimbursement came through!  Yeah! 
• Insurance policies paid through 7/2025
• Funds are running low.... 
• Venmo- now that up and running, post to recoup for Simba, Dawn to post on Insta and Facebook.

New Business

Dogs:

• Milo- Denied. Kimberly to email and ask Susan to create email (Susan, we need an email for dogs we can't take)
• Joleen- (Athens,GA) owner passed and foster can’t keep her. Waiting on more pics. Lidia/ Claire  to post.
• Angus- Lidia to post for foster or adopter – needed mid August.
• Bowser- Bre and Gregory Allen want to foster/adopt, they are in Tn. Need to do a halfway in Chattanooga. Dawn outreached to see if transport available.  Lisa- can you send a foster contract?
• Lola- Kimberly to ask again for photos again
• Nala/zeke- 8/5 Juliegh G might take both- Dawn to contact once she is back.
• Xena- might be great for the couple in apartment, Brittney in Raleigh. Claire to connect.
• Spec/Onna/chance/rex- Need to all be up on Website, FB and Insta- Lynn to check/upload photos. Lidia to post.
• Zoey is being adopted- pending due to unexpected expenditures- No fee adoption? Lynn to follow up

• Fosters:
  • Jacquie M= Claire to outreach again.
  • State of rescue: will be ongoing.
    • Future of work: SOP edit done and setting up time to meet with Dustin
    • Fundraising:
      • Simba post sent for feedback- Dawn to post