Author: Photographer

Teresa Berg is a nationally recognized photographer and author with more than 20 years of professional photography experience. She specializes in business portraits and artistic family portraits for a sophisticated clientele. Additionally, she donates much of her time to animal rescue and many Texas children's charities.

The competition is HOT for a spot…

in our Tiny Dog Calendar for 2020. We’re raising votes ($1 at a time!) for the homeless pets in north Texas. Every dollar counts!

25 beautiful dogs were photographed for this year’s contest, but only 13 earn a space in the calendar, so as voting continues during the month of August we are inching towards our goal of $20,000 for Artists for Animals community grants for 2019.  100% of your voting dollars go to the fund and animal rescue groups from the north Texas area apply for grants with a simple one page form.

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Our mission is simple. To help raise funds for a variety of hard-working nonprofit groups in our area. Volunteers who give up their free time and energy pulling dogs off the streets, healing sick and wounded pets, vetting and re-homing and offering spay and neuter services to break the cycle of homelessness.  Many of these groups are small and dedicated, but lack the time and funds to hold their own fundraising events –and they need our support.

Here is today’s tally:

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Please help us by throwing a few votes our way?  See all the contestants and VOTE HERE.

And they’re off…..

It’s time to vote in our annual Tiny Dog Calendar Contest for Artists for Animals Community Grants.  We have 25 dogs in the race and only 13 spots, so we’re selling votes!  Each vote is $1 (100% of the voting proceeds go to the grant fund) and you can buy as many votes as you wish and as often as you like — UNTIL August 31st at midnight. 

Teresa Berg Photography creates portraits for all of the dogs in the contest and designs and publishes the calendar annually to raise money to support the AFA Community Grants program. In this way, AFA can help raise money for a variety of initiatives across the north Texas region.  Rescue groups are encouraged to fill out the grant proposal form each fall and the AFA board votes to give grants based on need and the type of project they are working on. Last year $18,000 was raised and given as $2000 grants to 9 different animal rescue charities.

The link to view the contestants and purchase your tax-deductible votes is here.  So buy some votes and help Artists for Animals save some lives! 

 

So many thanks…

Our 2019 Concert for Kindness was a big success — thanks to our wonderful donors, art lovers, musicians, artists, music lovers and the many volunteers who worked on this event.  We raised over $68,000 in total –and because we have no salaries or overhead, that money all goes to saving more cats and dogs!

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Our hearts are full as we plan for future events. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Young artists and the Concert for Kindness

We made a visit to Kyle Clark’s Advanced Drawing Class at Booker T. Washington School for the Visual and Performing Arts as we do on a regular basis, and as usual were completely amazed.  The creative energy of these wonderful young artists makes every minute there an real treat.  The artwork they are doing for this year’s Concert for Kindness Silent Auction is nearing completion and so beautiful.

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Here, Puppy Puppy!

It’s time for Puppy Yoga at Northaven Trail, and what could be more fun?  This event has really grown over the past two years and there are now more tickets available for the October 20th class.  And look at all the cool sponsors who are participating! Ticket sales benefit Artists for Animals and Operation Kindness.

Don’t wait to reserve your spot because these classes always sell out.  Read the details and purchase your tickets online here. 

 

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AFA 2018 Fall Community Grant Program kicks off!

Are you part of a local (north Texas) animal rescue organization? If your group would like to apply for grant money from the Artists for Animals Community Grant Program, now is the time!

Email us for the simple grant form, fill it out and get it to us by November 1st and our board will meet and start sending out checks.   Last year’s grant recipients represented a variety of efforts and initiatives that we were proud to support – maybe your group is ready to launch a new program but just need some funding to make it happen?

But don’t delay — email us at:  artistsforanimalstx@gmail.com and we’ll send you the form you need to apply.  And remember, we must have the form back by November 1, 2018.

Thanks for all you do for the pets that need us.

Thank you!

Our Tiny Dog Calendar contest is complete and we sold a record number 15,695 votes!  This money will be distributed via grants to a variety of local animal rescue groups within the next couple of months.  This is how we all save lives and help relieve overcrowding in local area shelters — SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTES- and congratulations to our winners!

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If you’re a member of an animal rescue group in the north Texas area and would like to apply for a grant, please email us at artistsforanimalstx@gmail.com  with the subject line that reads: GRANT PROPOSAL REQUEST and we will email you the appropriate form!

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