Business Plan

Our goal is to fund, equip and staff a local nonprofit veterinary clinic in a leased or donated commercial space to provide affordable spay and neuter (S/N) services, vaccines and other basic veterinary care for low-income area residents. 

The Madera Spay Neuter Clinic Inc. for dogs and cats was established in 2021 as a nonprofit and received IRS designation as a 501(c)3 corporation in September of 2022.  We pledge to use every dollar of your donation responsibly. 

Interim Pop-Up S/N Events  Due to the huge, current unmet demand for affordable local S/N services we now are holding a GoFundMe effort to fund, equip and operate temporary “pop-up” S/N events and low cost vaccine clinics monthly or weekly on Saturdays as soon as funding, space and availability of vet personnel allow. Veterinarians and support staff would initially be obtained on a contract basis, by day, the event, or part-time. Contact Us If You Can Help!

Chemical Birth Control for domestic pets. We will research and prioritize the use of emerging nonsurgical chemical birth control in dogs and cats. Our local experience these last two decades has demonstrated that we cannot S/N, rescue or adopt our way out of this massive pet overpopulation problem.  While S/N is the gold standard, chemical birth control in the form of FDA-approved long term ovulation disruption is cost effective, and already available by prescription and in use in large animals and wildlife, in either oral, injection or implantable forms. This option can provide an opportunity to effectively reduce large local populations of unwanted animals.

It’s a Crisis. Madera and surrounding small towns in the Central Valley area already have a tremendous and exponentially growing population of unwanted animals. Their fate is grim. Many of these homeless animals roam, starve, are hit by cars or are killed by other animals.

The Reduced Role of Animal Shelters, Inflation, and Other Factors. As overwhelmed, underfunded city and county animal shelters follow the popular but controversial trend to become “no kill” they now greatly reduce intake, limit their capacity and deflect thousands of unwanted animals back out into the community. Shifting this burden and costly responsibility for custody and care of unwanted, homeless dogs and cats back to residents already overwhelmed with animals and struggling with inflation does not come close to meeting the need. Private animal rescue groups everywhere are also full and struggling. 

Our One Year Plan.  Our initial fundraising goal is $750,000. We estimate this would provide a fixed location for our clinic in a leased or donated commercial space, hire veterinary staff to provide these S/N services to our community, and purchase related materials such as surgical equipment, holding cages, and other basic office and computer equipment. See the proposed budget page for estimations for equipment, staff salaries, and other essentials.  Click Here For Startup Cost Estimate

Our Two Year Plan  The unmet local demand for affordable veterinary services is very high and will likely quickly exceed our startup clinic’s initial capacity and ability to provide these low cost services to everyone in need of them. We intend to continue to operate while expanding our fundraising to meet that demand, as time and funding opportunities allow.   

Our Three to Four Year Plan  Our ultimate goal is to raise $2.5 million to purchase and or adapt an existing building, or begin construction of our own building. Ownership of our facility would establish a suitable long term clinic to be able to continue to meet the needs of the growing population of Madera and our surrounding areas.  

Our Five Year Plan is to incorporate The Madera Humane Society as a California nonprofit rescue organization to help relocate surplus adoptable animals to homes and rescue organizations outside of the Central Valley.  

This nonprofit low-cost spay neuter clinic model is greatly needed and would be scalable to apply in many other low-income areas of the Central Valley, should funding become available. 

Other Longer Term Operational Goals:

Operate a Temporary Animal Holding Area We have already identified the need and plan to temporarily house and contain homeless, injured, and or adoptable animals that may be surrendered or abandoned at our clinic facility. Volunteers will photograph animals and post them for adoption, or transfer to other established rescue partner groups.  

Develop a volunteer network to assist in areas of dog and cat fostering, adoptions, and transport.

Mentoring, Teaching and Scholarship Programs.  Tuition assistance for employees, local youth and or residents who wish to pursue advancement in education, certification, and employment in the veterinary field, either as a vet tech or veterinarian.

Educational Outreach to residents, schools, and community groups. Promoting the humane treatment of animals and the importance of spaying and or neutering pets. 

A Feral Cat Trap Neuter and Release (TNR) Program  Will provide options for residents and local nonprofit groups to deliver trapped feral or “community” cats for spaying or neutering, or chemical birth control injections and release back into their territories.