Our mission is to enhance the qualify of life of current and former members of the us armed forces, to enhance the quality of life of animals currently living in animal shelters, and to reduce the number of animals currently living in animal shelters - all by providing free or discounted pet adoptions to active duty, reserve, and veterans of the us armed forces and their dependents; and to foster, encourage and engage in, by all proper and legitimate means within the context of the purposes stated above, certain charitable and similar causes for the public welfare.

Animal Protection & Welfare , Animals

Animals for armed forces foundation sponsored 1 special pet adoption events in 2017 for current and former military members and their immediate families. Memorial day weekend (may 2017) - our event occurred over memorial day weekend in 2017, and 14 animal shelter organizations participated with us for this event. As a result of our memorial day weekend event, we had 1,071 animals adopted in total at our 14 participating shelters with 339 of those being adopted by military families. This resulted in our foundation donating $45,101 to cover these adoption fees for the military families. The breakdown of these totals by shelter are as follows:1. Oc animal caremilitary adoptions = 20total adoptions = 72money donated to oc animal care = $2,0062. Spcalamilitary adoptions = 14total adoptions = 51money donated to spcala = $2,0203. Helen woodward animal centermilitary adoptions = 66total adoptions = 91money donated to helen woodward animal center = $21,0464. Mary s roberts pet adoption centermilitary adoptions = 16total adoptions = 42money donated to mary s roberts = $2,3505. Kern county animal servicesmilitary adoptions = 4total adoptions = 41money donated to kern county animal services = $806. County of los angeles dept of animal caremilitary adoptions = 16total adoptions = 183money donated to county of la dept of animal care = $7007. City of san bernardino animal controlmilitary adoptions = 2total adoptions = 15money donated to city of san bernardino animal control = $1108. Ventura county animal servicesmilitary adoptions = 9total adoptions = 85money donated to ventura county animal services = $9459. County of san diego animal servicesmilitary adoptions = 99total adoptions = 165money donated to county of san diego animal services = $6,02210. Irvine animal caremilitary adoptions = 2total adoptions = 27money donated to irvine animal care = $30011. San gabriel valley humane societymilitary adoptions = 0total adoptions = 0money donated to san gabriel valley humane society = $012. Barstow humane societymilitary adoptions = 5total adoptions = 10money donated to county of barstow humane society = $43013. San diego humane societymilitary adoptions = 30total adoptions = 154money donated to county of san diego humane society = $2,84014. Humane society of utahmilitary adoptions = 56total adoptions = 135money donated to humane society of utah = $6,252totals - for 2017, 1,071 animals were adopted in total at our special pet adoption event, with 339 of those animals being adopted by military families. This resulted in total donations made by animals for armed forces to our participating shelters = $45,101.