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The Piedmont Animal Welfare Alliance (PAW Alliance) is a volunteer-driven 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Forsyth County, NC focused on the intersection of animal welfare and social justice. Our mission is to make our community one where all pets and people have safe and loving homes. PAW Alliance is proud to offer two primary programs: A New Leash on Life and A New Start in Life.
A New Leash on Life is a dog training program of the NC state prison system. PAW
Alliance partners with the Forsyth Correctional Center, a minimum-security men’s
prison and offers 10-week training sessions. Under the guidance of experienced
dog trainers, inmates learn how to work with dogs and train them in basic
obedience. Dogs trained in the program have extremely high adoption rates and
the inmate trainers are learning marketable skills they can use to find employment
after release. The dogs for our program come from local and surrounding county
animal shelters and rescue groups to help those dogs most in need of some extra
skills before they find their forever home.
A New Start in Life provides safety and care to pets of all varieties while survivors of interpersonal violence find safety. We provide loving foster homes or lodging, food and treats, medical care, toys, and all other needs, allowing the survivors to feel great relief knowing their pets are safe and loved. After they figure out their next steps and leave the shelter, survivors are reunited with their pets.
EIN: 82-2562731
Our Programs
A New Leash on Life (NLOL) is a N.C. state prison dog-training program, where both dogs and inmates get a second chance. Our dogs live and work with qualifying inmate-trainers for 10 weeks, learning nice manners and obedience, house and crate training, and basic agility.
PAW Alliance partners with Family Services of Forsyth County in New Start in Life (NSIL) supporting interpersonal violence survivors and their pets. Many victims won’t leave the home, for fear their pets will be abused if they leave—if they haven’t been already—and often abusers use pets as hostages. If the victim does leave and finds a safe shelter, pets are rarely allowed.
YOU MAKE US HAPPEN
PAW Alliance is volunteer-driven—and by people like you who believe that helping animals can also change human lives.
We receive no federal, state, local, United Way, or other institutional funding.
Our work is possible because animal lovers and social justice
champions choose to support it.
And when you give, your gift goes directly to the work: 100% of every donation supports the program costs of A New Leash on Life and A New Start in Life.
Your generosity helps us provide care, training, resources, and new beginnings—strengthening the bond between people and animals while creating brighter futures for both.
You may designate your gift to a specific program or allow us to use it where the need is greatest.
Your gift doesn’t fund overhead. It funds second chances.
Give today.
Change a life.
Strengthen a bond.
PAW Alliance is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization. EIN: 82-2562731.
Please donate today.
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If you would like to send your support via a check , please address it to
PAW Alliance, 116 Lowes Food Dr., Ste 252, Lewisville, NC 27023.
You’ll receive a tax-deductible receipt.
Thank you!
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