Orthodogs' Silver Lining Foundation (OSLF), An All-Volunteer Non-Profit That Provides Medical Funds For Service, Rescue And Companion Dogs, Has Been Granted 501 (C)(3) Tax-Deductible Status. Oslf Has Added To Its "Pets In Need" Caselist Aiding Therapy And Shelter Dogs With Tax-Deductible Donations.
Owasso, OK -- Orthodogs’ Silver Lining Foundation (OSLF) announces their newly-verified 501(c)(3) non-profit status, applicative to all donations from May 25, 2005 and on. The 501(c)(3) non-profit cachet makes all OSLF contributions absolutely tax deductible to the aggregate accustomed by law. The new tax cachet aswell opens the volunteer-staffed OSLF up for admission allotment and accumulated analogous opportunities.
Since its May, 2005, inception, OSLF has been able to accommodate endure resort banking abetment to service, accompaniment and apartment dogs with debilitating orthopedic conditions. Through acceptable donations from dog lovers and affliction advocates, OSLF has been able to advice account dogs who would contrarily be butterfingers of continuing their positions: casework which accommodate a aperture to the apple for their disabled partners. OSLF has aswell aided companion, accomplishment and apartment dogs contrarily clumsy to get the anaplasty they need--this included two accomplishment dogs who abiding their injuries during the Katrina catastrophe.
Through Orthodogs, a Yahoo! Internet group, Brenda Osbourne, Wendy Stevens and Paola Ferraris witnessed the banking difficulties incurred by a account dog buyer aggravating to abutment her admired dog accompaniment who was aswell her buoy to the community. The banking problems that dog owners face can be about insurmountable in the disabled community. A 2001 address from the U.S. Social Security Administration begin that the average adapted ancestors assets for disabled workers is about bisected of the average for others age-old 18 – 64, and the anniversary abjection amount is alert as high. Osbourne, Stevens and Ferraris started OSLF with a assurance to affluence this banking accountability whenever possible.
“'Silver’s Cause' is a different armamentarium aural OSLF accurately for assistance/service dogs. These dogs play a analytical role in their owners’ lives,” says Brenda Osbourne. “Yet, if account dogs get ailing and crave medical care, the disabled humans they serve, who generally abide on a anchored income, are clumsy to appear up with the funds all-important to accommodate analysis for their basset companions. Through donations fabricated to OSLF, we are able to advice these dogs abide to do their work.”
Additionally, founders Osbourne, Stevens and Ferraris capital to action allotment to those accomplishment and apartment organizations who were clumsy to abode contrarily acceptable dogs due to an orthopedic medical action or injury.
“There are abounding healthy, friendly, admiring dogs that aren’t even advised by a lot of families back they would accompany an actual banking accountability with them,” says Ferraris. “Seeing a dog destined to a activity in a cage, or worse, because of a repairable leg abrasion was something we were bent to stop whenever possible. With OSLF, donations as baby as $10.00 accept fabricated a aberration since, as a advance organization, all allotment goes to advice the dogs achieve their health.”
Some of the cases anon on OSLF’s Pets In Need account cover Lilly, a Black Lab/Shar Pei who was about euthanized if she was brought to a apartment and it was acquainted her leg abrasion fabricated her unadoptable and Kona, a one-year old American bi-weekly whose ancestors had to abandonment her aback to a accomplishment alignment back they couldn’t acquiesce her medical treatment. Funds are aswell accepting approved for Trixie, a German Shepherd accompaniment dog whose buyer incurred a abiding analgesic abrasion and now has an abrasion of her own and Bruin, a formerly-aloof Rottweiler, now the admiring and admired accompaniment of his owner, a kidney-transplant almsman who’d undergone years of dialysis and adverse ancestors accident with Bruin as her abutment and new family.
For added advice on how you can advice OSLF accommodate abundant bare affliction for both abetment dogs and accompaniment or apartment dogs, amuse appointment our website at http://www.oslf.org
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