From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

This is our seventh annual report on the budgets,
assets, and salaries paid by the major national animal-related
charities, listed on the following pages, together with a handful
of local activist groups and humane societies, whose data
we offer for comparative purposes. This is the fifth of these
reports published in ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Each charity is identified in the second column by
apparent focus: A stands for advocacy, C for conservation of
habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting
(either for “wildlife management” or recreation), L for litigation,
P for publication, R for animal rights, S for shelter
and sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection issues,
and W for animal welfare. The R and W designations are used
only if a group makes a point of being one or the other.
While many groups are involved in multiple activities,
space limits us to providing only four identifying letters.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

I last bought a calendar in 1990.
The 20th anniversary celebration of
Earth Day was big that year, temporarily making
everyone an activist.
Like millions of other Americans, I
responded to a television ad showing how dolphins
were netted with tuna. Almost overnight
my mailbox filled. Uninformed, I wrote
checks. More solicitations came. I now know
that most of the groups who got my money are
among the largest, best financed, and least
needy. They simply had the bucks to buy my
name––many times over.
Shortly thereafter I started reading
ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton’s
“Who gets the money?” reports, then published
by The Animals’ Agenda. In the summer
of 1991, a year after Earth Day 1990, I
moved, and left no forwarding address.

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