Animal Guardian - Additional Feature
Season of Change
DDAL Announces New Affiliation to Better Protect Animals
By
Holly Hazard, executive director of Doris Day Animal League
In keeping with our strategy to build an infrastructure of
humane representatives by working together, the Doris Day Animal
League will be taking on a new arrangement this fall. We have
combined our operations with those of The
Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in an exciting
new evolution of our legislative and public policy goals. HSUS
is the largest and most respected animal protection organization
in the U.S. and has a presence throughout the world. By combining
our talent and resources with those of HSUS we are confident
we will be able to do more, with less, and to bring even greater
protections to animals in the future.
What does this mean for our organization? DDAL will continue
to exist; it will be an affiliate of HSUS, able to use its administrative,
technical and professional staff to operate in a more efficient
and cost effective way, with your donations to protect animals.
We will continue to work on the issues so important to our members,
including preservation of wild horses, spaying and neutering
and stopping cruelty to animals. Our wonderful staff will stay
and continue the projects we’ve started, and add more.
And HSUS staff will be working with us on these matters and
many others. We will continue to keep in contact with each of
you through mailings and action alerts.
We will cease production of the Animal Guardian and this will
be the last issue. This is unrelated to the move to HSUS. We
made the difficult decision last fall that, with increased access
to Web sites and email coupled with the rising costs of printing
and mailing this magazine, it is simply not the best use of
your donations. For the cost of one mailing, we could launch
one additional campaign or legislative initiative or hire two
additional staffers. It is a tough decision made with mixed
emotions, but I am confident that although we will lose something,
we will gain much more.
I hope we can count on your continued support and involvemen...and
that we can better serve our members by offering many more options
for involvement.
Thank you to all our long time members and to our new affiliates.
I am proud of our wonderful staff, pleased to have served our
Board and to have represented each of you in our mission to
better protect animals. I look forward to our new challenges
and goals and hope each of you will join us in our new venture.
This article appears in the Fall 2006 issue of Animal Guardian.
For more information, read the Press
Release.
