Rescue CWC
Yes! I want to help RESCUE CWC by making the following tax-deductible donation:
Adopt-a-Species
Our Adopt-a-Species program makes a wonderful gift for family members and friends. Your intended recipient will receive a gift letter stating your donation, a color photo and interesting facts about the animal.
Busy Baby Season
Each spring, California Wildlife Center is flooded with baby animals. Some have been left orphaned when mom was hit by a speeding car, others might be injured by a zealous house cat and still more are victims of disease, starvation or exhaustion as a result of urban sprawl.
Caring for an infant in captivity is delicate and exacting. Away from its perfectly designed natural world, the animal's survival is dependent on how well we simulate the proper conditions for its development. CWC meets this challenge with specialized equipment, proper nutrition, tender loving care — and your help.
With your support, California Wildlife Center can use its limited resources to maintain adequate staffing and purchase necessary medical supplies and food — so that no animal is turned away.
Please help us meet our goal by making your baby season gift today!
Fawns — Need Help
It costs $700 to raise and release a fawn in six months. CWC cared for 19 fawns in 2008.
Coyote Babies — In Need
Your $250 can help us rehabilitate a coyote pup so it can eventually return to the wild and help control the rodent population. CWC cared for 4 coyotes in 2007.
Bobcat Kittens — Need Help
It costs $250 to hospitalize and rehabilitate a bobcat or coyote with a broken leg for one month. CWC cared for 2 bobcats in 2007.
Baby Season — Squirrel Helper
Your $50 can help us care for a baby squirrel orphaned by tree trimming. During March, April, August & September, CWC cared for 331 squirrels in 2007.
Baby Season — Bird Orphans
Your $25 can help us care for a baby bird that was crowded out of its nest; we will feed it and help it learn how to fly.
Specific Funding Opportunities
Don't you like to know where your money goes?! Here are some specific funding opportunities that you can point to with pride.
Baby Care Unit (BCU) Start-up Costs
We are currently in the process of rehabbing our downstairs hospital for use exclusively as our Baby Care Unit. This will require installation of new windows and doors (materials have been donated), scraping, sealing and painting existing walls, purchasing shelving and special lighting, secure storage receptacles, multi-level squirrel caging, various size carriers and kennels, two new incubators for our infants, a refrigerator to store formula, and crock-pots and syringes for warming formula and feeding. Estimated Cost: $5,950
Baby Care Unit (BCU) Operating Costs
The BCU will be in operation from February through late September, as waves of orphaned baby birds, squirrels and opossums are brought to the Center for care. In 2007, 68% of the mammals and 48% of birds that were brought in for treatment were orphans — over 1000! Costs accrue for food, formula, medications, medical, cleaning and general supplies, as well as utilities and the costs for volunteer training and our workman's comp insurance — Estimated Monthly Cost: $1,400.
Hospital Operating Costs
The Center's Hospital and Surgical Suite are open 365 days a year. With our part-time wildlife veterinarian, Dr. Duane Tom and our trained staff and volunteers, we are capable of taking care of wildlife injuries on anything from cat caught birds, to animals hit by cars, seabirds caught in fishing lines, head trauma from birds hitting windows, small critters stuck in glue traps, or larger mammals with injuries of unknown origin. Included in our estimate of monthly costs are the following: staff salaries, workman's comp insurance, purchase of cleaning and medical supplies, repair or purchase of needed medical equipment, as well as utilities for the hospital. Estimated Monthly Cost: $13,100
Marine Mammal Response (MMR) Program
Our Marine Mammal Response (MMR) Program, headed by Cynthia Reyes, provides marine mammal response for over 27 miles of coastline including the City of Malibu and Southern Ventura County. Our response team is available 365 days a year, and responds to all calls about stranded and/or injured marine mammals. Appropriate assessments are done on each animal, and if necessary, animals are rescued and transferred to the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro. Included in our estimate of monthly costs are salaries for one full-time and one part-time responder, workman's comp insurance (for both staff and volunteers), the purchase and repair of rescue equipment (kennels, nets, herding boards, etc.), and the operation of our 9 year old rescue vehicle. Estimated Monthly Cost: $6,660
Food for Injured and Orphaned Wildlife
While every effort is made to get food donated to the Center, we still need to purchase specialized formulas for fawns, orphaned opossums, hummingbirds, squirrels, basic nestling diet (birds), appropriate fish for various seabirds, mash for baby ducklings, and meal worms (for protein), etc. While these costs are included in the monthly totals for both the Baby Care Unit, and the Hospital, when broken out separately, it is: Estimated Monthly Cost: $1,100
Education Program
CWC currently conducts Spring, Summer and Fall programs for students currently planning to become Registered Vet Technicians and Veterinarians. Each of these sessions include one-on-one hands-on training with Dr. Duane Tom. Students have an opportunity to work directly with our native wildlife — experience that is not available anywhere else in Southern California. The hope is that many of these students will go on to specialize in wildlife rehabilitation — an area that is woefully under served. The program currently covers 15-20 students per year (up to 6 of the students are also provided housing on site during their tenure). The costs for this program includes a portion of our veterinarians salary, workman's compensation, and a small portion of household utilities. Estimated Yearly Cost: $17,850
Gifts of Equipment and Supplies
Philanthropy has an enormous impact on the California Wildlife Center. From a new anesthesia machine, ICU incubator and X-ray machine — to outdoor enclosures and facility upgrades — CWC has benefited from the generosity of dozens of donors.
With advanced medical equipment, wildlife patients receive the full benefit of the veterinarian's professional skills and avoid transport, which is inherently stressful to the animals.
Although support for new buildings or large endowments is very important, it's the smaller items and improvements that help the center run smoothly on a day-to-day basis. If you are interested in making a donation for/of needed equipment or supplies, please call the administrative offices at 818.222.2658 or e-mail admin@californiawildlifecenter.org. Please also see our Baby Care Wish List.
Planned Giving/Tributes
Leave a legacy for generations to come. By naming California Wildlife Center in your will or trust, you can help ensure that native wildlife will be protected in the future. Gifts of cash, stock, property or insurance may be allocated to an endowment fund.
As a tribute, you may make a donation in honor of a special person or occasion, or in memory of a loved one. The honoree or family will be notified of your generosity.
Please call the administrative offices at 818.222.2658 or e-mail admin@californiawildlifecenter.org for more information, or donate through PayPal by indicating the tribute (eg in memory of John Brown
, or in honor of Jane Doe
, or to commemorate ground-hog day
) and the notification address below.
United Way and Matching Gifts
Giving at Your Workplace. Why choose to give at the workplace? It's the easiest and most effective way to support humane causes in your community. Giving through payroll deductions, spread out over the year, is extremely convenient. Once you pledge a contribution, it happens automatically — including a charitable donation calculation on your T4 slip at the end of the year for tax purposes.
United Way's Donor Choice program gives employees the ability to designate beneficiary agencies outside of the United Way's general allocation pool. Contact the personnel office at your company for information about how to make CWC your beneficiary.
Double or Triple the Value of Your Gift at No Extra Cost! A matching gift can increase the value of your gift to help us provide high quality animal care and continue to pursue advances in health care, community education and research. Many employers match the charitable gifts of their employees and retirees, including spouses. Contact your employer about how they can match your gift to CWC!
Leverage Your Volunteer Efforts. Some companies will make a donation in honor of their employee's volunteer hours at CWC — check with your HR office.
Contributor Shopping
Merchant contributions can make a difference for our wild patients. Here is a shopping guide that will help you designate the California Wildlife Center as your charity of choice.
- Help the animals while you shop at Ralphs. We participate in the Ralphs Community Contribution Program which contributes between 1% and 4% of what you spend. This enables anyone with a Ralphs Rewards Card to support the California Wildlife Center while saving money by swiping their Club Card when they shop at Ralphs. Mark your calendar to renew this each September!
- At iGive.com, they've compiled a diverse array of over 550 merchants who will donate up to 27% of your purchase to the cause of your choice. We highly recommend downloading their excellent Shopping Window, which ensures you'll never miss out on a donation.
- Amazon.com donates a portion of your purchase to CWC, and MyCause.com and eScrip, similar to iGive, are general portals to a variety of online storefronts. Note: For CWC to benefit, these three partners must be accessed from this website.
- CharityChecks.us lets you
Give the Joy of Giving.
When you purchase their "Giving Certificates" as gifts, the recipients can make the certificate out to any of over 800,000 organizations. This is a fantastic way to kindle the philanthropic spirit in children as well. - GoodSearch.com and GoodShop.com contribute to your favorite charity (us!) when you search or shop through their sites.
Amazon.com
Earth's biggest selection! Click here to buy from them, they give to us! It's just that simple…
MyCause.com
Plenty of useful things you need. Find them here at www.mycause.com/cwc, they donate to our wildlife. Very nice!
Charity Checks
Let your Present help the Future. You can shop and write checks and help, all at once.
iGive.com
Here you can change online shopping for good. Support our cause and shop… can't beat that!
eScrip
eScrip is fantastic! Participating grocery loyalty cards, credit cards and debit/ATM card purchases all reward CWC.
Ralphs
You certainly eat. Now shopping at Ralphs helps animals… no fuss, no muss! Just click the button to go to Ralph's Community Contribution page and sign up your Ralphs Rewards card for contributions to CWC (Organization Number 81547).
GoodSearch
Search the web with GoodSearch.com and each time you do a search, GoodSearch will donate a penny to our cause!
GoodShop
Shop online at GoodShop.com and a percentage of each purchase will be donated to our cause! More than 600 top stores are participating including Amazon, Target, Staples, Best Buy and more!
