Give to the Max 2024

Happy Give to the Max 2024, it's the MOST important day of the year for our rescue! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year and helps keep our little rescue going into the next year. Join us today as we share with you our new program goals, reminisce about some of our 2024 program dogs and help us reach our financial challenge to raise $20,000. 

2024 marked fifteen years of existence for MN Pit Bull Rescue.  That’s a decade and a half of dogs and adopters (and the fosters and volunteers who helped those matches become reality!), but also fifteen years of changing landscapes in pet ownership, volunteering, and the needs of the community around us.  If you’ve followed along, you’ve probably noticed that not as many dogs are joining us and being adopted; it’s a difficult challenge for an organization with “rescue” in the title to not be doing as much, well, rescue.  We do hope to return to those roots again, but for now, we are experiencing a pivot and we are hoping our supporters will join us in this endeavor, just as they have stepped up for us in so many ways through the past fifteen years.

While we are limiting our dog intakes for a time, we are looking to focus our efforts in four areas to support MN dog owners:

*Vetting assistance

*Food, Supplies, & Housing 

*Foster dogs and owner surrender cross posts (supporting the dogs currently in our program and considering owner surrender cross posts to facilitate placement of non-program dogs)

*Training scholarship assistance

Most of these are pretty self-explanatory. Our final piece, training, has always been part of the backbone of our organization.  It’s been a requirement in our adoption contracts because we feel strongly in the power of training to build foundations between dogs and owners and to also help troubleshoot many of the challenges that can present for dogs and owners over their time together.  Many of our owner surrender requests are often due to issues that can be helped with access to quality training.  In our efforts to support the other end of the leash—the human end—we are opening back up our training scholarship program. In our efforts to support the other end of the leash—the human end—we are opening back up our training scholarship program.  It will be open to anyone in MN. Our hope is that in supporting the dog-owning community around us, we will see fewer surrenders and keep more dogs home ultimately. 

Our Give to the Max fundraising this year is going to focus on these elements that we hope to give to the community.  Simply getting dogs into homes doesn’t feel as good when we see such high needs being unmet for those dogs once they are adopted.  Matching dogs and adopters is the work we love and how we started, and we do genuinely hope that our journey takes us back there soon.  We’re not content to sit back and accept our current limitations or those in the community that have led to this decision though!  The goals laid out above will only be possible with funding to provide for these needs, so please join us in saying “yes” to the greater dog-owning community, so that we can get back to saying “yes” to more dogs in need soon.

*A special note- just like previous years, any donation of $100 or more will earn you a one of a kind MPBR #GTMD24 sweatshirt. We’ll contact you the first week in December for your size and shipping address so be sure to enter your information on the donation page and check your spam folder in December if you don’t see something in your inbox. *