House Rabbit Network is embarking on its largest-scale project yet: a full internal reconstruction of the Westford shelter. This project is a huge step forward for us, because not only will it allow us to house more rabbits in the shelter, but we will be adding a clinic space within the building as well. This clinic space will be a game changer for us, allowing us to perform our own small-scale medical procedures including spays and neuters, and we hope that in the next year or two we will also be able to open this clinic to the public. This clinic will save us an incredible amount of money over the long term, allowing us to reallocate funds that would have been used for these procedures to other endeavors for the bunnies. Ultimately, this construction project will make us more self-sufficient and will ensure we're using the donations of our supporters in the absolute best way possible to save even more bunnies than we have in the past.
But this life-changing project will not be possible without each of you. As a thank-you to our supporters for making this new space a possibility, and to incorporate all of you and your love for your bunnies into our new space, we are offering four tiers of thank-you gifts to individuals and teams who help us create this space. Based on how much an individual or team raises, they will get a small, medium, or large painting of a bunny they would like to commemorate, which will be placed on a wall of honor in our new space. Anyone can create a fundraising team and ask their family, friends, colleagues, etc to join their team and all work together to raise funds for this massive undertaking. Any team or individual who raises enough money (even if the individual is also part of a qualifying team!) will be eligible for these thank-you gifts:
$1000 raised - small bunny painting
$2500 raised - medium bunny painting
$5000 raised - large bunny painting
The fourth tier is the highest honor we can give, and will go to the top three individuals or teams who raise the most over $10,000, giving them the honor of naming a room in our new shelter after a bunny or person of their choice. This will be in addition to them also receiving a large painting of their bunny of honor.
On top of all of this, we have an extremely generous supporter who will be matching this fundraiser dollar for dollar up to our goal of $200,000, so for every dollar you help us to raise, you can know it will have double the impact!
This fundraiser will be going until September 30th, directly after which we will follow up with our supporters on the thank-you gifts they have earned. We plan to have an unveiling of the wall during an Open House to show you all the new space, which will take place sometime in the Fall.
Thank you all for being a part of this new chapter for HRN!