Be a 15th Anniversary Paws Champion this Giving Tuesday!

This Giving Tuesday, join us as we celebrate 15 years of care and service at Operation Paws for Homes (OPH)! Since 2010, your support has been the heartbeat behind every rescue, mission (locally and overseas), medical care, adoption, and second chance. We are 100% donor funded and cannot do this live saving work without you! We are grateful to have built a rescue community with you focused on compassion and have saved over 16,000 lives together! As we look to the future, we need your continued support to help expand our reach, enhance our medical care, and ensure the next 15 years bring even more happy endings.

This Giving Tuesday, we're kicking off our next 15 years of rescue work and we need you to help make it the biggest Day of Giving in OPH history! There is no bigger gift you can give than the gift of health, love, and life. We're inviting you to kick off your own Peer-to-Peer fundraisers for OPH - our 15th anniversary Paws of Champions to help us reach a goal of $20,000 as we drive our mission forward. Start a fundraiser now, share with friends and family for Giving Tuesday, and find out other ways to get involved.

We're inviting you to become Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers—our 15th Anniversary Paws Champions.

Why Fundraise with Us?

Share Your "Why": Create a simple, personalized page and tell your friends which OPH rescue pet, volunteer story, or adoption inspired you to join our mission. Personal stories are the most powerful way to inspire giving!
Fuel the Future: The funds you raise will directly support our exciting plans for the future, ensuring essential medical care, transport to safety, and a forever home for every dog and cat in need in the years to come.

It's simple! We provide the tools, templates, and encouragement—you provide the passion. Let's make this 15th anniversary a powerful launchpad for the next chapter!

🐾 Sign Up to Be a Paws Champion Today!

Operation Paws for Homes is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to the rescue, rehabilitation and placement of dogs and cats who have overcome great odds and deserve wonderful, caring forever homes. These dogs and cats are rescued from overcrowded shelters in the southern region of the United States, including South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Virginia. We partner with local shelters as needed. We also rescue a few international dogs by partnering with shelters and rescues in India and Kosovo who rescue dogs from dangerous and deplorable conditions .

Our organization is volunteer-powered by a dedicated group of animal lovers who have seen the horrors and sad fate of animals who find themselves abandoned and left to fend for themselves in the world. At the rural shelters, the staff faces everyday challenges of few adopters, underdeveloped spay/neuter programs in their counties, and (in many instances) local residents who do not understand the need to spay/neuter or engage in rescue activities. With limited resources and few adoptions locally, the shelters are forced to put down a significant percentage of their animals.

After visiting these facilities and seeing the heartache on the faces of the shelter staff and the animals in their care, we started OPH to help give these deserving dogs and cats a second chance. We have some of the best shelter and rescue partners! There is no better feeling than pulling out of the shelter’s parking lot with 25 lucky dogs and cats who are being given a new lease on life! In doing so - we give hope to these amazing Shelter Partners that the animals they have cared for will find forever homes. In fact, part of our mission is to support these facilities through donations guidance, and resources.

OPH does not operate a shelter or have a physical location. We rely on foster families who open their homes to give love and attention to each dog while it waits for a forever home. In addition, we partner with wonderful boarding facilities who care for our rescue animals. Through the foster program and our partners, we learn about each dog and its needs. These animals have been through a lot and it may take days or weeks to allow their personality to completely unfold . We strive to provide as many details as possible to potential and future adopters which increases the likelihood of a good match for each dog and family.

OPH is 100% donor funded. We receive no funding from federal, state, or county governments. As a result, we rely on the generous donations from our supporters and the adoption fees for each dog in order to save the dogs and cats in need that join our rescue organization. In addition, we have a hard working Grant Team who reaches out to organizations who provide grants for rescue animals. Without these vital funds, we could not continue our mission to make a positive difference in the lives of the animals - and the people - who we save. Together We Rescue.

Celebrate 15 Years this Giving Tuesday!

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