We have been extremely fortunate to work with some great organizations over time and have gotten more involved with SFTH recently with our fostering of Cosita. The people there could not be sweeter and nicer and it is truly a wonderful organization. This is one of the only organizations we have been part of that does not have paid workers so everything is done by volunteers. We think that is just wonderful, as the money makes its way to pets. As an organization run by volunteers, SFTH needs to find volunteers with different skills to accomplish everything from web design to fostering.
Take for example. If we want to send in updated photos and comments about Cosita, we cannot just add them to their site ourselves. We do not have access to their web hosting, etc. so we need to email the head of SFTH who then emails the volunteers they have that work on the website. The website people are volunteers that are doing everything on nights and weekends and they are doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. But, SFTH cannot email them four times a day with different requests as they do not want to overburden them. This is the reason that when people try to adopt from various rescues or interact with smaller non-profits they have to realize that these aren’t big companies run smoothly like Amazon or Apple. So, when dealing with non-profits try to be patient and remember that a lot of them are staffed by volunteers who are using their free time on nights and weekends.