aniMeals Fall Pet Food Drive a Huge Success

Thanks to everyone who donated to the Fall aniMeals on Wheels food drive! 
We collected over 6500 lbs of pet food!!!

(Click here to view more pictures from the drive)

These donations will greatly help our mission to decrease the
burden that seniors feel when it comes to feeding themselves and their pet companion.


Didn't get a chance to donate? 
IM is always accepting pet food donations.
Bring all donations to IM's main office (3217 Montrose Houston, Tx 77006)

If you are unable to donate dog or cat food, Interfaith Ministries will purchase product on your behalf. For approximately $180, you can feed a pet for a full year.

To donate online click here.


aniMeals is a completely donation and volunteer driven program delivering more than 7000 lbs. of dog and cat food to more than 400 seniors serving 990 pets each month. 
Click here for volunteer opportunities with aniMeals.

aniMeals Fall Pet Food Drive

It’s that time again! AniMeal’s Fall Pet Food Drive is August 12 & 13 here at IM (3217 Montrose at Westheimer). Donated dry/wet dog and cat food will go to Meals on Wheels Seniors who could use a hand feeding their pets. 

Visit http://www.imgh.org/ for more info,
and to download the event flyer. 
Be sure to share it with your friends, family, and community.

Click here to view our previous aniMeals Drives on flickr.

Tuesday Memo - Honoring Those Who Serve

Greetings,

We pride ourselves with the many collaborations that are central to IM's mission.  We work with lots of great organizations who share our passion for service, particularly those who work with seniors, refugees, disasters and interfaith dialogue.

One such organization is Houston's great SPCA.  We have found common cause around helping the animals that bring so much joy to our homebound seniors.  Each year individual donors and organizations like the SPCA donate loads of pet food so that we can use the money we raise primarily for the food our seniors eat.  Almost all of our pet food is donated and it comes to about 40 tons per year. 

For the entire month of June, we are partnering with the Houston SPCA on a cat and dog crate drive so that if our seniors have to evacuate this summer they will have appropriate ways to take their pets.  Without this, many of our seniors refuse to go to a shelter for fear of losing their companion pets. 

Animeals, IM's pet food delivery program, feeds 900 pets each month.  More than 125 wonderful volunteers work with IM to assure that the dog and cat food is delivered monthly and also help us collect pet food all year long. 

You can help in one of two ways:  You can purchase a pet crate and donate it to IM through the SPCA or you can donate the cost of one (about $50).  Click here to donate online or click here to find more information about drop off locations.  Thank you for helping a senior make sure that his or her pet is well loved during the next hurricane.

A THOUGHT TO PONDER

As I was contemplating the lives of our brave soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country, I spent a bit of time looking at the wars of my lifetime and those who paid that price.

I turn 61 this year and over those years we have been at war for a total of 31 of them - just a bit over half of my lifetime.  And during those many years, just over 100,000 men and women have perished. 

We may choose to disagree with a particular engagement or war, but the truth is undeniable; the freedoms we hold dear are ours due to the bravery of a very select few who choose to serve and protect. 

Our freedom, in large part, is a direct result of their readiness and willingness to act on our behalf.  So while I pray for the day when we will beat our swords into plowshares, I also pray for those who have fallen and for those who serve.  Because of them we have the chance to be free.  Thank you all.

Talk to you in two weeks.

Elliot Gershenson

President and CEO

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston

aniMeals Spring Pet Food Drive

533 Dogs + 430 Cats =963 Pets!  6650 lbs of pet food delivered monthly!  That's 7 pounds per pet!

aniMeals is totally dependent on donations and volunteers to deliver pet food to seniors who often live alone and who have an animal companion. The aniMeals program was created to help decrease the burden that seniors feel when it comes to feeding themselves and their pet companion,

Donations flooded the Interfaith Ministries pet food room last fall, as we received thousands of pounds of pet food.  We had to get an extra storage units on campus to house all of the pet food!  Now we only have one month of food left!

This month, we are holding a Spring aniMeals on Wheels Pet Food Drive on Friday, March 25, from 7 a.m. - 6 p.m and Saturday, March 26, from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.  Donations of unopened packages of dog and cat food, both wet and dry are needed.  Toys and treats will also be collected during the drive.  Please bring all donations to Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: 3217 Montrose, Houston Tx, 77006.

aniMeals on Wheels depends on people like you, your friends, family, and community to fill the belly's of pets all across our city.  Help spread the news by printing THIS flyer and emailing it, tweeting it, or posting it on the bulletin board of your community center.

Also, volunteers are needed to help staff the pet food drive.  Interested? Contact Denise Atkerson here.