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Volunteer with us

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with PAW Alliance (Piedmont Animal Welfare Alliance). We’re an all-volunteer nonprofit working at the intersection of animal welfare and social justice. We need volunteers to help us help others. Be part of our Village!

We have a variety of opportunities, and your gifts, talents and skills can really help us with our work.

 

We are the Animal Welfare partner of the minimum-security prison, Forsyth Correctional Center, in the New Leash on Life program. Dogs in need of training are paired with qualifying inmate-trainers for a 10-week session, supervised by professional trainers from the Winston-Salem Dog Training Club.

 

Our New Start in Life program assists Family Services, Forsyth, at their domestic violence shelter by caring for pets while the survivor is at the shelter. We pay for everything, including all medical care.

 

Right now, we don’t need frequent volunteers at the prison, but we are in serious need of volunteers “on the outside” to help us make New Leash on Life successful. And we really need foster homes for New Start in Life pets. If you’re interested in being a foster, please fill out our Foster form. Some short-term volunteer jobs such as putting up flyers etc., would be excellent for Service Hours for teens!

 

As your first step to working with PAW Alliance, please fill out the Volunteer Application, checking all areas of interest, and we will get back to you shortly. When you send your info, we will assess your interest with our needs, and get back in touch with you. After that, we’ll send you the PAW Alliance Volunteer Agreement, and arrange to meet with you. We hope that you will become a PAW Alliance Partner! Thank you!

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Foster / Volunteer with PAW Alliance
 

Ways to Help

  • BOARD MEMBERSHIP: We are always interested in potential new board of directors' members. It's good to begin volunteering and learning about our organization, but if you are deeply passionate about our cause, and think you may have the skills to move PAW Alliance forward, ask our Volunteer Coordinator about possible opportunities.

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  • ADOPTION FAIRS: We can always use help at some of our adoption fairs. We have at least two per session at local venues when the inmate-trainers and prison staff are with us.

 

  • COMMUNITY EVENTS: Help plan, run, and work special events and fundraisers that will support our important work. Events are fun and help us get the word out AND raise funds.

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  • ERRANDS: Goodness knows, we’ll have lots of them. Food and treat runs, meds pickup at vets’ offices, and especially posting flyers around the area about our dogs for adoption and our two programs.

 

  • FOSTER HOMES: We need loving foster homes for our New Start in Life and New Leash on Life programs. Foster homes may vary from a few weeks to a few months. Please select foster home on the volunteer application and answer the additional questions related to fostering with PAW Alliance to be considered.

 

  • GRADUATION: Help us with food, logistics, and other tasks at our graduations (sometimes at a dog training club, sometimes at the prison) after each 10-week session.

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  • NLOL SOCIALIZING ANIMALS: Join us in a public setting to walk the dogs outside the prison campus and help them become accustomed to different situations and people.

 

  • NEW START IN LIFE: A New Start in Life program assists domestic violence survivors y taking temporary foster care of their pets while they try to rebuild their lives. If you are interested in helping out in this area, let us know. Although there aren't a lot of volunteer opportunities with NSIL, fostering is a wonderful way to help with this program. 

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  • NLOL VOLUNTEER INSTRUCTOR: If you are a dog trainer and are interested in possibly being involved in our New Leash on Life prison dog-training program, please select NLOL Volunteer Instructor on the volunteer application and answer the additional questions related to Volunteer Instructors with PAW Alliance to be considered.

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  • PHOTOGRAPHY: Got a gift with photos? We are always grateful for good photographers to snap pictures at our adoption fairs, socialization walks, and other events. A picture is worth a thousand words, and we'd love yours.

 

  • PROMOTION: We do good work. But we always appreciate help promoting what we do. Help us at events! Share our Facebook and Instagram posts. Give us great promotional and fundraising ideas. Help design flyers and posters. Always, there's the all-important work of putting up our flyers and posters around Forsyth County. We need your help!

 

  • PUBLIC SPEAKING: Join our list of people who would like to spread the word about our work to small groups, such as churches, retirement homes, and civic clubs. We have all the info you’d need to provide.​

 

  • VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT: We are always in need of volunteers. What we'd love is for volunteers who really "get us" to help us "get" more volunteers. Have friends you can ask? Like to schmooze for worthy causes? We need you! 

 

  • WORK FROM HOME: Help manage an email list and / or data base of potential adopters, donors, and volunteers.

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