As we move along, we hope to familiarize you with our organization and it's policies and practices.
Your handbook will help you and I hope you have taken the time to print it out. I encourage you to read and understand our goals so that, when you're out and about, you can help us to educate the public by explaining the need for breed rescues and just what we do...we'll touch more on that later as well, but since I promised I'd talk about who we are; let's talk a little more about the people behind the MAGDRL logo.
We'll start with an introduction to our New Jersey Coordinator and Team Leads. You can check our Contact Page to place a face with a name on our NJ website, but here's a list of who's who in our chapter with a brief overview of what they do. You can also click on their name if you wish to E-mail them.
NJ State Coordinator
MaryFran oversees all aspects of NJ MAGDRL business. She interacts with other Chapter Coordinators and represents NJ MAGDRL to the MAGDRL Board of Directors. MaryFran also has final decision for approval of new volunteers, applicants and adoptions and danes coming in to NJ for rescue.
Adoption Application Team Leads
Together Melissa and Tori oversee the phone calls involved in the adoption process, making many of those calls themselves. This includes initial phone interviews, vet and personal reference checks and the inclusion of this information on "formsite"
Adoption Finalization Team Lead
Jennifer is responsible for finding the "right orphan for the right family". She evaluates the needs and preferences of approved adopters and matches a dane with them that will fit their experience, lifestyle and personality.
Donations Team Leads
Always searching for new and creative ways to secure donations and money to help support our Danes.
Fundraising Team Leads
The amount of money we spend each year on our fosters is staggering, so the work Lisa and Debbie do for us is of paramount importance.
Foster Home Team Lead
Joanne is responsible for placing our orphans in NJ foster homes. She is their contact and helps them with foster dog issues, operations assistance such as getting a crate and other accessories to them when needed and assists them with the introductions of their fosters dogs to potential adopters and the adoption process.
Inventory Administrator
Dale keeps track of all the merchandise sold at our Meet & Greets and events
Meet & Greet Team Leads
These three ladies have the very large task of trying to arrange for Meet & Greets within their areas so that we can "spread the word" about MAGDRL.
Public Relations
Laurie Zoock is filling in for this position, in charge of promoting and publicizing all our events.
Event Coordinator
If we have a large event, Cathy will most likely be coordinating it.
Tag Administrator
Michelle makes sure all our Danes have proper identification tags
Turn-In Team Lead
Roxann carefully evaluates the Danes coming to MAGDRL and arranges to bring them in if she feel they can be helped by our organization.
Webmaster
Sue keeps her finger on the pulse of all NJ and records and documents it on the website.
Since you're already subscribed to our NJ MAGDRL Discussion Group, you know of the existence of our volunteer database....these people, like you, are the backbone of NJ MAGDRL. Next time you're there, why not look on the database and see who lives in your area.
Now, on a broader scope, you can refer to your manual to see all the State Coordinators. Each State is set up similarly to New Jersey. Most likely, you won't have occasion to work with these folks directly unless you are involved in a multi-State transport, but it's nice to be able to place the name when you see them posting on the extended list. (which I mentioned when I sent you the invitation to join our Yahoo discussion group)
Finally, let's meet the Board of Directors.
And our who's who wouldn't be complete without an introduction to the Danes for whom we devote our time and energy. This list of furry faces changes from day to day, but at this moment here's who we're working to help
Unfortunately, we have more Danes in our care than foster homes, so we also have Danes in kennels. If you are subscribed to the extended list, you can view them as well.
So that wraps up the who's who of MAGDRL. Now let's talk about where we're going and how you ocan help usget there..
