Program:
Inner City Youth Farm Visits
- Budget:
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$20,000
- Category:
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Animal-Related
- Population Served:
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
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Youth/Adolescents only (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
This program allows groups of urban kids who've never been in a rural area, let alone met a farm animal, travel up spend a day at our farm and learn how modern factory farming works.
Program Long-Term Success:
This program is only about 1 year old and as such is still being developed.
Program Short-Term Success:
We've had a number of visits from kids from the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Program Success Monitored by:
Self-monitored, it's a pretty low-budget project.
Program Success Examples:
Sometimes a picture is worth 1000 words...
Program:
Farm Visits Every Weekend
- Budget:
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$25,000
- Category:
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Animal-Related
- Population Served:
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Adults
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Program Description:
During our open season, April through October, we are open for farm tours. Visitors learn in detail about the plight of animals in the factory farming system while making connections with the "ambassadors" who've managed to escape it.
Program Long-Term Success:
With thousands of visitors every year, this program is at our very core of our reason to be.
Program Short-Term Success:
Not a weekend goes by without people's eyes being opened for the first time to this largely hidden world of industrialized agribusiness.
Program Success Monitored by:
Self-monitored
Program Success Examples:
Don't take our word for it -- visit our "fan mail" page of our
website.
Program:
Traveling Humane Education Team
- Budget:
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$12,000
- Category:
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Animal-Related
- Population Served:
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
Program Description:
We take the farm on the road to schools in major urban areas like NYC pull back the curtain to the hidden world of modern animal agriculture.
Program Long-Term Success:
Program Short-Term Success:
Program Success Monitored by:
Program Success Examples:
Program:
Shelter Caregiving
- Budget:
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$300,000
- Category:
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Animal-Related
- Population Served:
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Adults
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
Program Description:
The main shelter operations for over 200 rescued farm animals, including feeding, cleaning, rehabilitation, ongoing medical treatments, etc.
Program Long-Term Success:
The Sanctuary was built from scratch starting in 2004 and we quickly have become a bustling facility with 13 barns and coops, a new duck habitat, an animal rehabilitation center.
Program Short-Term Success:
Albie the goat lost his leg after escaping from being hog-tied during transport to slaughter. We had a prosthetic leg made and have modified it over the years to adjust for his changing weight and gait.
Program Success Monitored by:
Our Board of Directors monitors the success.
Program Success Examples:
"Broiler" chickens are highly bred to hatch from an egg and hit a
5-pound slaughter weight in only 45 days, but under our care we have
some who have lived over 5 years.