The last year and a half have been extremely challenging for both artists and the causes they support. Because of Covid-19, most of our fundraising efforts had to be suspended –which means the small local groups that rely on us for support will be without our help this year. These are local groups that spay & neuter, groups that help the elderly keep their pets, groups that pull sick dogs off the streets of Dallas. The need is great. The matching funds provided by the North Texas Giving Day Fund makes a huge difference in what we can do for the homeless animals of North Texas. Can you help? Contribute any time between now and September 23rd and AFA receives matching funds to help local animal rescue efforts. Thank you Erin Hannigan and Teresa Berg Donate   |
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Shop for Shelter Pets and we’ll deliver!
Santa needs our help this holiday season — shelter pets of all shapes and sizes need food and supplies urgently. Join Artists for Animals and do a little holiday shopping for our four-legged friends!
Use our Amazon Wish list and have your gifts shipped to Teresa Berg Photography or to any one of the participating stores in the list below.
Teresa Berg Photography (Addison)
StretchZone – all 3 locations
Elements Health and Wellness
Terlingo Cycling
I love Kickboxing (Marsh Lane)
Shops at Legacy (Razor’s Edge and Avalon Salon)
Cryo1one – Uptown and Plano
Glo Sauna
Trufusion Fitness
Village Burger Bar -West Village
La Ventana – Cedar Springs
Dear Clark
Elizabeth W
Shine Hot Pilates
Breathe
OR visit a local pet store or grocery store, shop and purchase using the list above as a guide then drop your items at one of these local businesses. It’s easy shopping — they need almost everything you could possibly choose. Artists for Animals volunteers will pick them up on December 27th and distribute to area shelters.
Thank you, once again, for caring for the homeless pets of north Texas.
It’s time to spread the love
The Artists for Animals Community Grant program is in full swing. Money raised from our Tiny Dog Calendar voting contest and a few other sources will be given out to local area animal rescue groups (dogs and cats) in the form of grants. This year we were named the beneficiary of the Halloween raffle at Odyssey Pets, and that money will be added to the grant program. THANKS, ODYSSEY PETS!
But we need more groups to apply! Your group must be local to north Texas and have no paid employees. All you do is email us for a simple form and our board votes on which groups get checks (up to $2000 each) in December. It’s really that easy.
We are firm on the cutoff date, so don’t delay. Email us at: artistsforanimalstx@gmail.com for the form. The deadline for grant applications to be returned to us is November 30th at midnight. Send them via email or snail mail or pony express — just get them to us so we can vote at our December board meeting!
Bravo, Birdie! And many thanks
What an amazing race! We are so very grateful to all the wonderful calendar dogs who participated (and of course, their families who did all the vote-raising!). Our grand total of 15,721 votes is a terrific achievement! Our BIG THREE are: BIRDIE, BAILEY and MARLO who will be raking in prizes and placements in the calendar.
We couldn’t have asked for more photogenic stars!
These three will be interviewed on WFAA’s Daybreak with Kara Sewell (full disclosure, Kara is Bailey’s mom) very soon.
Birdie will grace the cover of the 2021 Tiny Dog Calendar and Bailey and Marlo can choose the month where the portrait will be featured. A big shout out to PET SUPPLIES PLUS and ODYSSEY PETS for providing generous gifts for the 1st and 2nd place winners –and to Carrabba’s Italian Grill for providing the $100 gift certificate for our 3rd place winner.
Please join us in congratulating ALL THE DOGS who participated. The top 13 vote-getters are next year’s calendar dogs, but all 21 contestants worked hard to raise money for animal rescue charities in our DFW area. They’re all STARS – and we couldn’t be more grateful. Stay tuned for information about where and when to purchase the calendars!
The Tiny Dog Calendar IN THE NEWS
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Watch for us on Daybreak with Kara Sewell and her dog, Bailey every Monday during the contest and buy some votes to save some lives!
Join us for some outdoor fun!
Voting starts August 1st!
We’re almost ready to start counting votes! Don’t be left out — even if your dog isn’t in the race, you can still pick a favorite and watch her win! Last year we raised $20,000 and we hope to beat it by a wide margin for 2020.
We’ll be voting online, here: https://artists-for-animals.square.site/ and starting August 2nd, we’ll publish the results on Facebook and Instagram. So tell your friends and let’s get busy and save some lives!
On your mark!
It’s almost time to start the voting in the Tiny Dog Calendar contest for 2021! Each summer we duck out of the heat and spend some days photographing dogs in the Teresa Berg Photography studio for an annual fundraising event for Artists for Animals. Click to view the organizations we supported with grants last year.
How is it a fundraiser? We raise money for homeless animals by selling votes online! Each vote costs $1 and all the voting proceeds go to the Artists for Animals Community Grant program. Local animal rescue groups can fill out a form telling AFA what they need the money for, and the Board votes and sends out checks. This program was born out of the realization that there are many many animal rescue organizations in our area and they all need help. Most are too small to even have time and volunteers to run effective fundraising programs. Yet they are all out there every single day saving lives. The bigger groups like the SPCA and ASPCA have a staff of experts that do nothing but raise money — but it takes more than one or two organizations to save all the homeless pets in our area.
So we started selling votes! Only 13 d
ogs can win, so we take the top 13 vote-getters and publish our calendar every fall. Last year we raised a hair short of $20,000. This year, the need is even greater as so many of the other fundraising activities that normally take place have been canceled due to the Corona virus. So AFA is stepping up it’s game.
Watch for instructions on voting which begins August 1st!
Many many thanks…
We are slow in posting our thanks. Because of the Covid19 quarantine and all the surrounding scheduling upsets we have taken a little extra time to settle all of the finances and do the accounting necessary to finish up our work.
But, thankfully, our 2020 Concert for Kindness was a success and is now one for the history books. We were fortunate to have secured a date that was just BEFORE the shelter in place mandates and we sincerely appreciate all of the support from the people who bought tickets.
We were happy to report that checks have been sent to the three beneficiaries of this year’s event: Paws In the City, The Love Pit and Dallas Cat Lady. Stay safe in these uncertain times, and know that we are grateful for your support of the homeless pets of Dallas.
Kara and Bailey
We couldn’t be more excited about this year’s Concert for Kindness! And we’re officially announcing our awesome Emcee, dog lover Kara Sewell (shown here with her Pomeranian, Bailey) from WFAA for her second year with us.
Tickets are available on eventbrite
Kara and Bailey were jaw-dropping models this week in preparation for the concert where they will star in one of the photographic stories that are projected during the concert. Can you blame us for putting them on the big screen?
