23 July is the first anniversary of our approval as a 501c(3) organization and the “official” date of the founding of Mandarin’s Retreat. If you’ve read through the material on the website, you would know that as a cat rescue, we’ve been caring for cats for much longer. Mrs H and I got our first cats together in Bogotá, Colombia over 20 years ago. We’ve come a long way since we obtained Silvestra and Weasel.
What we’re planning on doing for this anniversary is to start another modest funding campaign while continuing to work on several grant opportunities. One challenge for the upcoming year is interest on the company credit card. We’ve had an interest free year on the credit card we use for food and vet bills and we have a 4 figure balance. We would like to zero out that balance and have a little money left over for campaigning for regular patrons who support keeping cats healthy and housed. We’re call the new campaign “Keeping Promises” which is a spin off of the joke candidate campaign poster I created for the Presidential debates. That poster is shown below:
Watch for more news on this campaign and please consider becoming a regular donor.