Individual Compensation (Chief executives &/or 5 top-paid staff & consultants)

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Nonprofit chief executive salaries rose 4.3% in fiscal 2002,
according to a national survey by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and
senior manager and fundraiser salaries rose 7% to 10%, according to
a survey of New York City charities conducted by Professionals for
NonProfits–but Giving USA reported that the increase in public
giving in 2002 fell below the rate of inflation for the first time in
12 years.
Salaries for other staff increased only 3% to 5%,
Professionals for NonProfits found.
The Pay column below combines salaries, benefit plan
contributions (if any), and expense accounts for the few individuals
who are not required to itemize expenses. Individual independent
contractors such as attorneys, accountants, and consultants are
listed as well as directors and regular staff.

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Starting on page 15 is our 14th annual report on the budgets,
assets, and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related
charities, plus miscellaneous local activist groups, humane
societies, and some prominent organizations abroad. We offer their
data for comparative purposes. Foreign data is stated in U.S.
dollars at average 2002 exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by what
they do and stand for: A for advocacy, C for conservation of
habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting,
I for supporting the eradication of “invasive” feral or non-native
species, L for litigation, N for neutering, S for
shelter/sanctuary maintenance or sterilization project, U for
favoring either “sustainable” or aboriginal lethal use of wildlife,
and V for focus on vivisection.

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition, opposition

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Budgets, Programs, Assets, & Overhead of Eight Opposition Organizations

Americans for Medical Progress
TYPE: AEV
DONATED & EARNED INCOME: $ 493,932
EXPENDITURES: $ 495,541
PROGRAM SERVICE: $ 329,150
FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION: $ 166,391
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, AS DECLARED: 34%
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, OUR ANALYSIS: 34%
TOTAL ASSETS: $ 91,980
TANGIBLE (DEPRECIABLE) ASSETS: $ 8,266
CASH & SECURITIES: $ 89,409

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Advocates for Animals (Scotland)
TYPE: AE
DONATED & EARNED INCOME: $ 506.092
EXPENDITURES: $ 199,426
PROGRAM SERVICE: $ 157,791
FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION: $ 41,635
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, AS DECLARED: 21%
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, OUR ANALYSIS: 21%
TOTAL ASSETS: $ 1,109,373
TANGIBLE (DEPRECIABLE) ASSETS: $ [none] CASH & SECURITIES: $ 1,109,373

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Roadkills of cats fall 90% in 10 years –are feral cats on their way out?

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:
BALTIMORE, SALT LAKE CITY, MENTOR (Ohio)–Is the U.S.
outdoor cat population down 90% since 1992?
The feral cat population might be.
Roadkills of cats appear to have fallen 90% in 10 years,
after apparently rising sixfold while the pet cat population nearly
doubled during the 1980s.
An eightfold surge in the population of feral cats, mostly
descended from abandoned and free-roaming pets, probably accounted
for about two-thirds of the roadkill increase during the 1980s, but
the trend is now completely reversed.

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BOOKS: Hawk’s Rest

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

Hawk’s Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone by Gary Ferguson
National Geographic Adventure Press (1145 17th St., N.W.,
Washington, DC 20036), 2003. 240 pages, paperback. $15.00.

 

Hawk’s Rest is not about birds, but the joys and trials of
living in wilderness. Here on nine million acres deep in Yellowstone
National Park, granite turrets rise 2,000 feet into the air, giant
boulders tumble into deep gorges, and ice forms endless lakes.
Yellowstone Lake, covering 136 square miles, can switch in minutes
from calm to waves thrashing five to six feet high. According to
park historian Lee Whittlesy, no body of water in the park and
perhaps in all of the U.S. is more dangerous. The water averages 45
degrees Fahrenheit, which gives swimmers about 20 minutes before
they must get ashore.
The weather in Yellowstone varies from sweat-drenched summers
in the Thorofare district to year-round squalls and blizzards in the
Beartooth Mountains.
Since the reintroduction of wolves in 1995, Yellowstone has
had all of the species known to have lived there within recorded
history, making it the largest intact ecosystem in the temperate
world.

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Roadkills of cats fall 90% in 10 years –are feral cats on their way out?

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

BALTIMORE, SALT LAKE CITY, MENTOR (Ohio)–Is the U.S. outdoor cat population down 90% since 1992?
The feral cat population might be.
Roadkills of cats appear to have fallen 90% in 10 years, after apparently rising sixfold while the pet cat population nearly doubled during the 1980s.
An eightfold surge in the population of feral cats, mostly descended from abandoned and free-roaming pets, probably accounted for about two-thirds of the roadkill increase during the 1980s, but the trend is now completely reversed.
Current indications are that without continuing replenishment from wandering pet cats, the fast-falling feral cat population would probably stabilize at a thinly distributed level resembling the norms for other small felines such as bobcats, lynx, and caracal.
The large suburban feral cat colonies seen in recent decades may be an anomaly made possible only by the extirpation of street dogs and the temporary absence of native predators capable of eating either rodents or cats. Only in high-rise communities like Hong Kong and inner cities ringed by miles of pavement, like the oldest part of Rome, are large cat colonies likely to persist–and then only if humans supply enough food to sustain them.

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Pet Friendly Inc. royalty claim halts Illinois “pet friendly” license plate plan to fund sterilization

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2003:

SPRINGFIELD–Sales of “pet friendly” license plates to raise
funds for dog and cat sterilization remain suspended in Illinois due
to a claim of trademark infringement made by the rope toy maker Pet
Friendly Inc., and may be in “legal limbo” in several other states,
American SPCA Midwest representative Ledy VanKavage told ANIMAL
PEOPLE shortly before the October 2003 edition went to press.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White confirmed on August
26 that sales of the Illinois plates reading “I am pet friendly” were
halted after his office received a demand for $563,000 in
authorization fees and royalties from Pet Friendly Inc. vice
president Charles W. Weinacker Jr.
Pet Friendly Inc. claims to have about 80 employees and sales
of approximately $10 million per year.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records “show that the Alabama
company applied for three trademarks in 1995, but the applications
were abandoned,” wrote Dana Heupel of Copley News Service. “The
company applied for a combined trademark for clothing, pet toys,
and pet food in 1997. The mark was registered on January 8, 2002.”

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Regulations regarding dog & cat freedom

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2003:

Persuaded by testimony from Peaceable Kingdom founder Liz
Jones, plus about 20 other neuter/return practitioners, the
Pennsylvania Game Commission on October 8, 2003 voted unanimously to
drop a proposal to amend a regulation forbidding the “release of
house cats” so as to prohibit the release of any dogs or cats,
including ferals, “into the wild.” The amendment was pushed by the
American Bird Conservancy.

Palm Beach County, Florida, on August 19 adopted a bylaw to
prohibit tethering dogs outside from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., effective on
September 1 and subject to review in early 2004 by the county animal
control advisory board–which reportedly plans to recommend a total
ban on tethering.

Wichita, Kansas, in early September became at least the
28th U.S. municipality to restrict dog tethering, adopting a bylaw
that limits tethering to no more than one hour at a time.

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