Who We Are
The vision of Giving Paws is to ensure best practices are implemented and followed for support animals in our community and the care of animals.
The mission of Giving Paws is to serve our community with trained support dogs and support programming which ensures the care of animals.
Our PAWstory
2021 A number of informal discussions with those who were interested in formalizing an avenue for dog handlers to share their trained dogs with the community.
2022 Community dog lovers formed our Leaders of the Pack (LOP) as a formal board of directors. Collectively our LOP has many years of experiences in nonprofit work, dog training, business, education, veterinary care and community service. Throughout 2022 we established Giving Paws as a legal 501(c)3 organization and development and implementation of policies to ensure best practices of our agency including Leaders of the Pack, volunteers, and staff.
2023 Our first support dogs got their Paws on the Ground sharing dog joy, and we launched our local vendor store to help fund our mission!
2024 Along with SafeCenter, we began our research in order to launch a pilot program, Pet Partners. This will be a temporary pet foster program to serve their clients when humans need to seek shelter due to an abusive relationship.
2025 We launched our Pet Partners Fostering Program, a unique pet fostering program to serve victims/survivors of SafeCenter who the domestic and sexual violence organization serving Clinton and Shiawassee Counties. In the Spring, Tales with Tails, a reading program with/to a dog began at Briggs District Library.
What We Do
Dog Pack Human and Dog Teams share dog joy and support in our community in a variety of ways.
Pet Partner Unique temporary pet foster program for humans who are facing difficult times.
Tales with Tails Human and Dog Teams provide to support to kids of all ages to read to a dog.
Details
| (989) 403-5471 | |
| executivehandler@gmail.com | |
| KELLY L SCHAFER | |
| CEO/Executive Handler | |
| https://www.givinghappypaws.org/ |
