There are many ways in which you can help homeless cats by providing financial support, fostering adoptable cats, volunteering your time or providing your professional expertise. Please contact us as soon as possible when you can help us in any way, however large or small.

We would like to acknowledge those who have already made a difference. Won’t you join them?

Financial Support

General

$10 will provide one 25lb bag of Costco Feline Maintenance food that will feed 42 homeless cats for one day. We currently feed approximately 250 cats every day, so we need about 6 bags each and every day. That’s $1,825 we must raise every month just for homeless cat food! $52 will spay/neuter (average $40) and provide the first FVRCP vaccination ($12) for one cat. $83 will cover the difference between our average medical, food and supply costs for one cat we foster and finally adopt out for a $100 fee. Last year we fostered and found homes for over 180 cats so we need to raise about $14,940 to cover our fostering costs.

You may, of course, specify that your donation be used a specific purpose. Every little bit helps! Donate online through the Amazon or PayPal buttons on the right or send your donation to the address at the bottom of this page. Buy from a number of online merchants and they will pay Peninsula CatWorks a commission for sales made through referrals from our website.

Angel Donors

Today we cannot offer you much beyond our undying gratitude (and the tax deduction) for being an Angel Donor, not even a paltry t-shirt, because we need every last dollar to meet the needs of the cats for whom we provide care. We will, however, make sure that you get full reports on the cat’s progress, and arrange for you to meet the cat and its caregiver, should you so wish. We will also acknowledge you on this web site and in our newsletters to the extent that you are comfortable.

Fostering

If you’d like to join our rescue effort by fostering a kitten or cat, please fill out our simple application form to tell us about yourself and the home in which the foster cat will stay. An experienced fosterer will contact you to talk about fostering and will arrange to visit your home. We will ask you to read and sign a copy of our fostering guidelines to acknowledge that you have read them and understand what commitment you are making as a foster caretaker. If all goes well, we will be in touch soon after about a cat in need of a foster home!

Many of our fosterers provide their own food and supplies as a donation to Peninsula CatWorks. However, we will help to the extent that funds are available. We are responsible for the cat’s medical expenses.

Volunteering

• Feed one or more feral cat colonies one or more days each week or every couple of weeks, depending on the schedule of other volunteers.
• Deliver cat food to feral colony caregivers.
• Monitor our hotline, obtain accurate answers, and respond to callers.
• Help setup, staff, and tear-down adoption fairs.
• Prepare mailings (flyers,newsletters, etc.)
• Recruit other volunteers!
• Help with data entry for accounting, mailings, etc.

Professional Expertise

• Bookkeeping.
• Legal advice, basic contract review, etc.
• Graphic design for our web site and literature.
• Writing for our electronic or printed publications.
• Marketing & public relations.