How To Help: Funding Needs

Donations To Our General Operations Fund

Since 1947, the Humane Society has provided a wide array of animal-related services to the community, including education and advocacy, emergency animal rescue, abuse prevention and investigation, a "lost and found" program, and disaster response. We care for approximately 200 animals at all times in our shelter, and our programs positively affect countless others throughout the state.

Donations to the HSPC general operations fund enable us to provide daily care of the animals, as well as our outreach programs. Our ability to keep our doors open directly depends on the generosity of private donors -- without financial support from the community, we could not offer these vital services to the animals and people of Arkansas.

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Donations To Our Spay & Neuter Fund

Pet overpopulation is a severe problem throughout the country and in central Arkansas. It is estimated that there are approximately 80,000 stray and homeless animals in the Little Rock area alone. Consequently, the municipal animal control agencies in Pulaski County have staggering euthanasia rates; thousands of healthy animals are killed each year simply because there are not enough homes for them all.

The key to solving this overpopulation problem is spaying and neutering animals, so despite HSPC's "no-kill" policy in our own shelter, we are leading the spay/neuter efforts in our community, as we have done for the past 53 years. We are working on plans for a spay/neuter clinic in our new facility where we can sterilize shelter animals and provide low-cost spay/neuter services to the public.

Combined with education in the community, this clinic will make a difference in the quality of life for many, many animals in our area for years to come. Contributions to our Spay/Neuter Fund are used to help sterilize shelter animals when necessary, to help fund our future in-house spay/neuter clinic, and to help support HSPC spay/neuter-related outreach programs so that we can help end the needless killing of healthy companion animals in Pulaski County and Arkansas.

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Donations To Our Emergency Medical Fund

We provide routine medical care for all of the animals in our shelter. This includes vaccinations, examinations, worming, spaying and neutering. We also facilitate emergency and more comprehensive medical care, as well, which can be costly.

Our emergency medical fund pays for veterinary care, surgeries, vet boarding, medications and supplies. We are fortunate to be able to provide this level of medical care to stray and abandoned animals who would otherwise not receive any medical care at all.