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Home Van Pet Care Project Newsletter, May 2011 From Elizabeth Howard, Project Coordinator April 2011 marks our fourth year as a pet care project for pets of the homeless people. Our model has been the Home Van itself, a local project that feeds the homeless and hungry people. We admire and respect Home Van founders Arupa and Bob Freeman as well as the Home Van troop of volunteers and hope we can help as much as they have. See Info Sheet #2 on our blog, "History of Home Van Pet Care Project" . In order to celebrate properly, we filed our application for Federal tax deductible status (generally referred to as “501c3”). This is a paperwork nightmare, but fortunately we had help, and our application was filed on April 12, 2011. Approval can take several months, and in the meantime we will utilize our Florida non-profit corporation, Home Van Pet Care Project, Inc., for financial donations and to assure accountability. We have also established a PayPal account for convenient dona...

Our application to qualify as a Federal non-profit corporation is complete and was mailed on Tuesday April 12, 2011. That was quite a chore and it is fortunate that I had an experienced person to help. It is very painstaking and of course we want it to pass, even though we have been told that it takes our government a year to review and grant the application. In the meantime, we will continue to use our State of Florida non-profit so that we have a bank account and are accountable. Our bank account is a bit low, and I’m writing to ask if you can help us replenish. Here are some areas that we like to keep built up: Dog Licenses. These are $20 now and there are probably ten that need renewal and several new ones to be purchased. Medical Fund: About once year we pay a private vet fee for a dog or cat in need of special medical attention. This came to $700 in 2010. We also utilize the low cost clinics for spay/neuter operations and paid for 10 @40 in 2010 for a total of $400. We sometimes ...