Pet Project for Pets, Inc.

Founded in 2002, the Pet Project for Pets, a 501(c)(3) organization, was born of an unmet need to serve an overlooked segment of pet owners; those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. While social services existed for housing, medical care and food, no assistance was available to help with the costs of having a pet. Many of these individuals would forgo buying their medication in order to feed their dog or cat and their only alternative was to surrender their pet to an overcrowded shelter. In 2006 the Pet Project for Pets expanded its "paw print" to include Miami-Dade County and in 2007 the program expanded again to include clients who were seniors, disabled, terminally ill or victims of violent crimes and would have had no other means to provide for their pet were it not for the help of the Pet Project.
In Miami we partner with Pridelines Community Center, using their facility for our monthly pet food distribution where clients come to pick up their allotments of pet food and other supplies. To streamline the operation, pick ups are staggered in three month blocks, reducing the number of pet owners to process at monthly distributions to one third the number of clients in the program on any given month. At this time, there are over 600 Miami-Dade pet clients in the Pet Project for Pets program and another 100 are on a waiting list. Pets now being waitlisted for assistance from this program are at risk of being surrendered to shelters due to the financial hardship of their owners. Your support of the Pet Project for Pets Give Miami Day giving event will enable more pets to stay in their homes with the people who love and need them.