Quita Memorial Challenge Grant - penultimate update
Our current total is $24,142, over 80% of our $30,000 end-of-year fundraising goal! That's about a typical month's worth of vet costs for our flock of 400+ birds. Regardless of whether your gift was large or small, we THANK YOU for your generosity! We suspect Quita, the parrotlet in whose memory the matching funds were provided, is also smiling.
Want to jumpstart your New Year with a gift? Here are the ways:
- by sending a check or money order to: Mickaboo, P.O. Box 697, San Jose, CA 95106-0697
- online, with a credit card through Network for Good
- online via Mickaboo's website (www.mickaboo.org) - use either of the two "donate" buttons in the left margin
ALL gifts of any size are welcome and are fully tax-deductible (in 2015)! Monthly giving is also VERY appreciated, as this provides a way for us to plan our cash flow (and avoid emergency funding calls!).
Today's results include final totals for online giving. We'll add the final results tomorrow for checks received at our PO Box. Stay tuned to this space for our FINAL update - tomorrow!
Azul is one of the birds who benefits from Mickaboo's volunteers. Azul is an older Blue Front Amazon in her 30's with cataracts. She acts like any other blue front amazon except she can't see very well. She plays with toys and takes treats from my foster mom very nicely. Azul could be a very sweet gal for the right person- and she's available for adoption!.jpg)
Harry is one of the foster birds who benefits from Mickaboo's services. He is a teenaged (in bird years) male Patagonian Conure with a bit of a mysterious past. Harry's last owner loved him dearly but was not in a situation to keep him any longer. His foster parent is teaching him about toys (he didn't have any before) and the social skills he'll need to thrive in a permanent home.
Our current total is $12,106, over 40% of our $30,000 end-of-year fundraising goal! Yippee! Our foster birds and the many volunteers who make up Mickaboo appreciate your donating during this Challenge Grant time. Doing so makes your gift go further - and helps us build a solid foundation as we head into 2015. Join the fun - there's only TWO more days to get a tax deduction AND help the birds at the same time!
Our current total is $9,811, about one-third of our $30,000 end-of-year fundraising goal! Your generosity during this Challenge Grant time (ONLY TWO MORE DAYS AFTER TODAY!) makes your gift go further than usual, helps you when you file your income taxes - and helps Mickaboo build a solid foundation as we head into the new year.
Sparkle is one of the birds benefitting from your collective generosity. She is a very young (we think around 4 MONTHS old) budgie who somehow escaped from her former guardian and, luckily, wound up at a shelter instead of becoming a predator's lunch or dying of starvation. Most shelters are not equipped to handle avian medical emergencies, and this one was no different - so they called Mickaboo when Sparkle started bleeding from a broken blood feather. Sparkle is just fine now - and is up for adoption! (Email 
Our current total is $6,067, slightly over 20% of our $30,000 end-of-year fundraising goal! Your generosity during this Challenge Grant time makes your gift go further - and helps us build a solid foundation as we head into the new year.
We have so far raised $4,329 toward our $30,000 end-of-year fundraising goal! Giving during this Challenge Grant time makes your gift go further - and helps us build a solid foundation as we head into 2015.
is holding a toy he's just dislodged from the top of his cage while he's hanging from his left foot, AND he's chewing away on the toy itself!
We have raised so far $4,014 - more than 10%! - toward our $30,000 fundraising goal! Thank you for your generosity during this season of giving - our 400+ foster birds, and the many volunteers who care for them, all appreciate your help. And giving during this Challenge Grant time makes your gift go further!