Volunteer Form

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Volunteer Opportunities Available. (Please Select All of Interest to You)

Volunteer Opportunities

Office Work and Data Entry: Requires strong phone, customer service, and computer skills. Friendly voice and personality are a must. Knowledge of Microsoft Office or Google Suite is preferred. Track data, then enter information into Excel spreadsheets or another similar database.

Fundraising and Special Events: As an all-volunteer, non-profit rescue group, fundraising is vital for our existence. We need volunteers to brainstorm ideas, help plan, and take part in fundraisers. Fundraising may include any number of events from yard sales, adoption events, and promoting donations online to speaking engagements and community outreach. We need talented, creative, energetic people to coordinate and participate in these events.

Marketing and Print Materials: Marketing helps us spread the word about FAN and our services. It also generates donation money and in-kind supplies. FAN needs skilled volunteers to photograph, create, write, and design marketing materials such as flyers, brochures, and forms, and to design and/or maintain websites. Can you recruit other volunteers, including veterinarians and vet techs? We need creative, energetic people who can help us communicate our mission and services to the public.

Trapping: Help with small and large trapping projects. Trapping involves setting up traps, watching cats enter, and covering the traps when triggered. Cats are then transported in the trap to the holding facility to await spaying/neutering. FAN provides training and will loan traps when needed.

Transporting: Includes moving cats to and from clinics for their appointments, to the holding facility for recovery after surgery, then back to their colony after recovery. May also involve transportation of supplies to other volunteers or transporting adoptable cats and kittens to adoption events.

Fostering: Rescued kittens must stay in home-based foster care until they're old enough to be spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and adopted. Kittens may be tame, semi-feral, require bottle-feeding, or eat on their own. Cats may come as a pregnant queen (she'll require a quiet birthing space) or as a mother with nursing kittens. We can provide training on how to socialize feral kittens and initial supplies. Fosters must be willing to provide food and litter for kittens in their care. FAN supplements supplies as available.

Feral Recovery: Once the trapped cat is spayed/neutered and vaccinated, he/she needs recovery time before getting released back to his/her colony. Holding time for a male is overnight; females require a one-week hold to ensure there is no bleeding, tearing of stitches, or infection. Recovery space needs to be safe and easy-to-clean, temperature-controlled, and large enough for a trap or holding crate. Garages and utility rooms are ideal locations for recovery. You may volunteer to hold only males, only females, or both. Training is provided.

Are you a Veterinarian or Vet Tech?

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Is there another way you feel you could help that we didn't mention?

Safety Guidelines: Please Read and type "Y" to Confirm Your Agreement

Never attempt to touch a conscious feral/stray cat. Do not stick fingers into traps or carriers containing cats. Both cats and kittens may bite. Always wear heavy gloves when transporting stray cats. If you should be bitten by a cat (or any animal caught in the trap), the bite should be examined by a doctor within 24 hours.

Ensure cats are secured in a carrier or cage at all times during transport. Don't allow any cat to roam free in a vehicle.

Transport cats directly to their destination, never leaving any animals in an enclosed vehicle alone.

Report all scratches, bites, and escapes to FAN directors first and immediately after they happen.

If additional training or information is needed, seek it from one of the FAN directors or their designated assignees.

Waiver of Liability and Agreement: Please Read and Initial Your Understanding and Agreement

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agree now and always in the future to waive all claims of liability, whether of negligence or any other cause of action, against Feral Affairs Network (FAN), its directors, officers, employees, and volunteers, for any of the followings: Personal injury, property damage, or any other type of harm resulting from my participation as a volunteer in any activities I engage in on behalf of FAN, its directors, officers, employees, or volunteers. These activities include, but are not limited to, the trapping, handling, caretaking, and transporting of feral or stray cats, and the handling or use of equipment related to trapping, handling, caretaking, and transporting of feral or stray cats.
The specific projects and activities I am volunteering for include but may not be limited to (please describe your intended volunteer plans, including any specific locations):

I understand that my participation as a volunteer with FAN is contingent upon my agreeing to this waiver.

I understand the role that volunteers have at FAN and my role(s) in the Volunteer Program.

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I will be polite, courteous, and respectful when interacting with the public. If I feel I am unable to do this, I will seek assistance.

I will be 100% honest when handling money for the rescue and turn over all funds raised at events or during the sales of items.

I certify that I am a licensed driver in Virginia and that my license is current and valid. I have valid automobile insurance.

I certify that I have never been convicted of animal abuse, cruelty, neglect, or abandonment. I also certify that anyone living in my home or visiting frequently has never been convicted of animal abuse, cruelty, neglect, or abandonment.

I am willing to donate my time and resources without expectation of reimbursement for gas or other expenses.

I pledge my support of Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNR) and will not reveal anything about FAN's efforts to any organization opposed to TNR or practicing cat trapping for any disreputable purpose. I will never privately reveal the locations of any feral cat colonies to anyone or post addresses of general or specific locations of feral cat colonies publicly or on social media.

I agree to maintain confidentiality regarding other volunteers, FAN's rescue practices, paperwork I may see, and any other information deemed internal to FAN.

I have read and fully understand the safety and security precautions and instructions for volunteers. In the event of an emergency, I hereby give permission to FAN to contact the emergency name(s) and number(s) provided on my volunteer application.

I, the undersigned, have read and understand fully my rights and responsibilities as a volunteer of FAN.

In signing this waiver, I acknowledge that feral cats are wild animals and can be unpredictable in their behavior. They are capable of inflicting serious bodily injury. I am willing to assume this risk to participate in Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return and/or cat rescue projects on behalf of Feral Affairs Network.

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