The Magic of $22,222.22

Thank you all --- the challenge has been matched !!! 

It’s Always Magical at Rikki’s Refuge

especially at Christmas !

22 Species

  1295 Animals

     and YOU !

From this ...... 

   to this .... 

How do you create a

     no kill sanctuary ?

One animal at a time

One donor at a time

One volunteer at a time

In the beginning

     there was one cat

          his name was Bobby

Our first call for help

     Our first vet bill

          Our first adoption

Bobby had been hit by a car and

     He needed surgery

          He needed care

               He needed love

                    He needed a long recuperation 

                         He needed a loving forever home

YOU were there

     YOU paid his surgeon

          YOU gave him food

               YOU SAVED HIS LIFE              

Then came Goldie

      Unwanted

          Unloved

               Frightened

                    Alone

                         Sick, oh so sick

Our first forever resident

     Our first terrified dog

          Our first challenging rehab patient

YOU were there for her

     YOU gave her medicine

          YOU gave her food

               YOU GAVE HER A CHANCE

She lived at Rikki’s Refuge for 9 happy years

     She learned to love

          She learned to trust

               She made friends

                    She was friendly

Again and again

     They had no hope

          They had no chance

               They had no love

YOU were there

     YOU changed that

          YOU gave hope

YOU gave love

YOU gave life

Repeat .... every day for 15 years

     Repeat .... for 5,376 
                            domestic and farm animals

          Repeat .... everyday for 1,295 
                                                daily residents

               Repeat .... for countless wildlife

                    Repeat .... and save one more

YOU GIVE ....

 

SO THEY LIVE

YOU GIVE .... Doubling Your Dollar

YOU GIVE .... USA Tax Deductible Contributions

YOU GIVE .... Money

 

                    YOU GIVE .... Meals

                         YOU GIVE .... Beds

YOU GIVE .... Medicine

YOU GIVE .... LOVE, LIFE, PEACE, and HAPPINESS

YOU are there because ....

     YOU Care

          YOU Know it matters

               YOU Value every life .... 
                                         every single one

Will you please help the animals now,

          during our Christmas 
                      Double your Dollars Challenge ?

It’s Magic

     $22,222.22 !!!!

          Double Your Christmas Donation

$22,222.22 will be MATCHED

     Dollar for Dollar

          When YOU help

DON’T WAIT - DOUBLE YOUR DOLLARS TODAY !!!

YOUR $1 becomes $2 and feeds 8

     $5 becomes $10 and feeds 40

          $12.50 becomes $25 and feeds 100

                      $25 becomes $50 and feeds 200

                           $50 becomes $100 and feeds 400

  $125 becomes $250 and feeds 1,000

      $250 becomes $500 .... a meal for everyone !

$500 becomes $1,000 and feeds 4,000 meals

     $1,000 becomes $2,000 and feeds 8,000 meals

$2,266.25 becomes $4,532.50 and ....

feeds EVERYONE for a WEEK !

THANK YOU

     for making Rikki’s Refuge what it is today

          for caring about the animals

               for loving the animals

                    for helping to make the world a 
                                    better place .... everyday

                         Thank you for being YOU !

Every penny counts

     No donation is too small to help

  

          It takes all of us working together !

               Together we that the difference

Click the Gold Donation Kitty and send lots of extra good luck with your donation today!

         

Thank you for your support today !!

We love YOU because

     YOU are kind

          YOU care

               YOU are generous

                    YOU are loving

                         YOU MATTER TO US

From all of us, 
Wishing you the Best Holiday Season Ever !

SO HOW DOES IT WORK ?

It’s very simple !  Some very special donors have set up a very special fund.  When you make a donation on-line here

or by mail here

Rikki’s Refuge

PO Box 1357

Orange VA 22960

or you call us at 540-854-0870 x5 with your credit card information ....

or contact us by email mail@RikkisRefuge.org

an amount equal to YOUR donation is also donated from this special fund.  Up to a total of $22,222.22, meaning the total donations generated by this special program will be $44,444.44.

Please help us to qualify for the full $22,222.22 in the fund .. we can only do it with your help .. we must match donations, dollar for dollar.  Please help us in any way you can.  The donors have the right to close the program at any time, giving us an amount equal to the amount donated by others during this campaign. 

So it’s very important you act NOW !

SO HOW FAR DOES THAT GO ?

You’re going to be amazed !  We house 1,295 animals a day.  Every day, every animal gets fed a good nutritious diet, many get preventative medications and supplements, lots of our residents are on daily prescriptions.  All get regular preventative parasite treatments.  All get medical care.  All have warm, clean bedding.  All have houses that need to be maintained, not just cleaned every day, but routine upkeep like roof repairs, fence repairs, and lawns mowed and cared for.  So there’s a lot of work and a lot of expense that goes into caring for 1,295 animals each and every day, no matter what they need.

Yet it all costs us not much more than a dollar per animal per day !  Now that’s a pretty amazing fact !   Can you guess how we do it ?

It’s all because we have wonderful volunteers who scout out fabulous deals.  The best price on food, matching sales and coupons and ordering in bulk.  Volunteers who spend hours driving to pick up donated food, and even pay for the gas to do it !  Wonderful volunteers who do so much of the work, not just the feeding and cleaning, but the accounting, record keeping, fundraising and more.

As a matter of fact, so much is done by volunteers, that our overhead is very low.  Overhead means expenses that are not considered directly relevant to our mission of caring for the animals and includes things like printing, postage, and that sort of stuff.  Because of the amount of work done by volunteers, our overhead is about 3%.  Check it out, compare it to other non-profits, you’ll find that is amazingly low.  And that means that 97 cents on every dollar you donate goes directly towards taking care of the animals !  Pretty amazing, huh ?

Would you like to help us help the animals?  It’s very easy

The animals need just about $1,400 a day for all of there care, for all 1,295 animals.  It sounds like a great big huge number, but when you divide the cost by the number of animals, it’s actually a very tiny number.   Less than any other animal organization I’ve ever heard of !  And that makes me really proud to work with Rikki’s Refuge !

The wonderful news about this special Double Your Dollar fund is that it will cover everything all 1,295 animals need, YES EVERYTHING, for the entire month of January !

And do you know why that’s such good news?  Well you see, people spend a lot of money in December ... and they are worried about paying their bills in January ... so that means fewer donations come in to help the animals. 

You can make this winter wonderful for the animals of Rikki’s Refuge by your kind donation of any amount right here

Thank you !!

All donations are 100% deductible - to the extent of the law, see your tax advisor - in the USA.  Rikki’s Refuge is a division of Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc.  A 501(c)3 IRS approved not for profit Virginia Corporation. Federal Tax-ID 54-1911042.

Look for Life Unlimited of Virginia, Inc in the Combined Federal Campaign National/International #77674, Combined Virginia Campaign #3163, and PetsMart Charities #1377.

Your donations provide direct support of the animals. A financial statement is available upon written request from the Virginia State Office of Consumer Affairs.

Rikki’s Refuge’s Mission

Rikki’s Refuge is a 450 acre, no-kill, multi species peaceful sanctuary, supported solely by donations from kind, loving individuals, just like you; our mission is to reduce, with the ultimate goal to totally eliminate, homelessness amongst animals of all species. Loving, thinking, breathing individuals who so often must pay the ultimate price for their simple crime of being homeless with their very lives. Creatures who want the same chance to life, love, peace and happiness that you and I do.

We carry out this mission by:

1) rescuing homeless, abandoned, abused and or injured domestic and farm animals, providing medical care (traditional, alternative and holistic), finding suitable adoptive homes, and for many (the handicapped, the elderly, the unsocial, those displaced due to the death, incapacitation or displacement of their human companion) providing permanent shelter, care, love and compassion;

2) promoting zero pet population growth through education and low-cost or free spay/neuter in an attempt to reduce the number of home-less animals, which end up in animal shelters;

3) promoting awareness of the animal kingdom through educational programs that teach compassion, for we firmly believe one who learns to feel compassion toward any living creature makes the world a more compassionate, caring and peaceful planet; our programs are designed for children, the elderly, the homeless,  and the differently abled handicapped;

4) providing a site for safe release and the future home of rehabilitated native Virginia wildlife;

5) maintaining 350 acres of pristine natural woodlands where native Virginia wildlife may always roam free of human intervention.

We thank YOU for caring about the animals with as much passion as we do.

For without YOU we could not continue to provide for our residents.

Thank you for your generous, tax-deductible, donation !!  And thank you for letting us DOUBLE YOUR DOLLAR !

I LOVE YOU, MY ANGELS !!!

     THANK YOU FOR DOUBLING YOUR DOLLARS !!!

          THANK YOU FOR TURNING DREAMS

               INTO REALITY !!!!

                    THANK YOU FOR SAVING THE ANIMALS !!!

Kath Jones

Melissa Felts' Pet Sitting Client #1

Melissa Felts' Pet Sitting Client #2

Pat Nelson

Nora Eldridge

Ann Goldman

Lia Federico

Dara Fox

Colleen Graves

Martha Girdany

Bill Butler in honor of Mariza Soliman

Jennifer, Miguel, Wylie and Sami Donner

Debbie Hollander

Frieda Milam

Ed LaBarre

Kathy McLaurin

Kate Viscardi

Jenna & Dominique and Adah Mae, Simon, Pumpkin, Charlie Cat and Isabella

Carrie Scott

Todd Baugh

Dorothy Henry

Anne Smith

Sherri, Gilbert and Bentley Callahan

Maatje Brazier

Sherry Clarke

Amy Madison

Heather Riede

Donna Savory

Deirdre Schwartz & Dolores Campbell

Theresa Lorenzo

Deborah Henken & Martin Kamph

Patricia Nathan

Sherry Chumley Brockner

Torre Taylor

Laura Kovalik

Wil Houchins

Walt Willing

Julie Munson

Carol McBain

Donna Jacobi

Bill Pullen in honor of Sally and Mary Arason

Melissa Gonzalez

Deborah Barnett

John Cann

Debra Berry

Denise Halderman

Pleshette McGrady

Kathleen Crippen

Ninja and Mom

Sheila Fath

Gussie Lamoree raised from Gift Wrapping at Barnes and Nobel in Richmond

Lisa Millhorn

Julie Wallin

Sue Banning

Liz Elias

John Fairty for the Vet Debt

Sabina Dobo

Ginnie Lucas

Lesley Winch

Deborah Forrest

Yvonne Wilson

Nora Eldridge - AGAIN !!!!
Mary Ann Bernald

Paul Simpson

Marie Gordon

Renee LeCompte

Richard Fischer

Karen Schulze

Helen, Martin and Adam Hauser

Jamie

Donald Lauer

Jocelyn Smyth

Carol Young

Susan Fisher

Janet Duran

Thomas Poole

April Nelson

Betty Brunson

James Firth

Martha Girdany AGAIN

       in Memory of Kathy Russell's father, John W. Russell

Patricia Gray in Memory of David Hanych

Kathy Russell

Nick Guagliardo

Cora Everett

Linda McConnell

John Bowman

Kim Williams

Suzette Haile

Jami Ojala

Margaret Leiendecker

Anne Anderson

Lawrence Gross

Daniel Masur

Buddy Sekely, In memory of his parents, Bernie and Dolly Sekely and their faithful rescue dog Maggie

Paul Totten

Arlien Mather

Jodie Rackley

Christopher Walters

Robert Tringali

Carol Boyse

Andy Thomas, Thanking Patricia Thomas for her donation to Rikki's Refuge.

Martha Girdany back for a THIRD time

David Coven

Donald Michel

Karen Friedel

Pam Donald

Mary Ann Bernald

Mary Baldwin

Susan Penney

Eddye Sheffield

Winging Cat Rescue

Barbara Lowe

Gail Lowe

RoseMarie Crean

Wendy Ingalls

Jennifer Walker

Tari Ott

Nancy Neimeth

Breck Sullivan-Carpenter

Christine Kent

Opie and Mom in honor of Great Grand Pa

Candy Neff

Elizabeth Gaver

Joan Flores

Linda Slaymaker for SmokeyJoe

Charlie Homer

Lisa Briles

Dennis Nagy

Suzanne Bolton

Joanne Whalon

Katherine Mallett

Margarita Pons

Emily Elder

Karen Friedel, BACK for seconds !

Linda Mathusa. In memory of Gingerbread Sillypants

Sherry Eller

Sherry Eller, BACK for SECONDS

Nancy Mottershaw

Stacey Vance

Virginia Brock

Alan Kent

Pam Harmon

Bill Isen

Carole Springer

Colleen Pilliod

Sheila Fath, BACK for seconds

Susan MacDuff

Barbara White

Dara Goldberg Kaye

Jefferson Sesler

Steph Selice and Jeff Reed

Mary Grettenberger

Alicia Boyd

Colleen Bauer

Marietta Lanza

Dorrel Edstrand

Karen Friedel, BACK FOR THIRDS !!!!

Lisa Marsico

Sally Arason

Sharon Kennedy

Joann Packard

Deb Lavoie, In loving memory of Vincent Cat and of my sweet baby Ashley

Art & Ara Storer

Sheila Fath, back for THIRDS !!!

Sam Iam

Grace Albert

Boob, Rudy and Gertie

Charlie Homer

Joseph Topich

Jennifer Ritter

Rebecca Tait

Melissa Felts

Twyla & David Jackino, in memory of Leslie & Dan May's sweet kitty Smokey

Marie Forman

Ron Herfurth

Patti Howard

Deb Forrest BACK again

Gigi Dul

Robyn Schnellenberger

Linda Hentman

Ellen Olander

Jane Whitmore

Senniug Rees and her facebook cat brothers

Kathryn McLean

Beverly Cain

Sasha Goldsmith, in love and honor of Shadow Goldsmith

Jean Evans

Greta Bollinger

David Preston Samson

Kathy Miller

Greta Bollinger, BACK for seconds

Jeff Green

Lisa Walsh

Rebecca Faris

Cindy and Walker Wright, In honor of all the Dogs at Doggy Downs and Rikki's - and in memory of those that went across Rainbow Bridge this year (Jack, Molly, our old beagles)

Sherry Eller

Laura Kovalik, back for seconds

Nora Eldridge, back for Thirds !

Kimberley Arrigo

Jane Whitmore

Trudy Perry

Karen Czar

Deb Forrest back for THIRDS and dug out coins from bottom of purse

Laura Whaley

Sarah Tulman

Lia Federico, back for SECONDS and In memory of The Divas French Toast, Sabeen Marie and Keena Kitty

A Dear Friend

Tari Ott, back for seconds

Howard Yarborough

Jessica Townsend

Patrick Hunt

Lisa DeFilippo

Debra Bruegge, In memory of her sister, Bonnie Brown

Robbie Martin

Sherry Webster

MaryJoan Hulsart

Patty Crocker

Joan Flores, Back for SECONDS

Michael Wood

Wendy R. Spiesman

Suzette Haile, back for doubles !!!
Rebecca Deloney

Bonnie Ornitz

Carolyn Demorest

Crystal Wood

Autumn-Skye Port

Carolyn Phillips

Bill Duran

Elizabeth Crawford

Vicki Gielen

Dale Eggers

Ursula Lowe 

and YOU !!!!

Thank you all --- the challenge has been matched !!!