The Sacramento Area Animal Coalition relies on hundreds of veterinarians, vet techs, vet students, shelter workers and volunteers, and animal advocates to spay and neuter nearly 1,000 pets of low-income families every year on Spay Day.

All volunteer opportunites for Spay Day 2008 have been filled by eager volunteers ready to make a difference!

If your vet clinic is interested in contributing time and talent on Spay Day 2009, please send us an email.

If you are not a veterinary professional but would like to volunteer for Spay Day 2009, please send us an email with your name, email address, telephone number and area of interest (see below).

Spay Day volunteer opportunities may include:

Appointment scheduling

• Retrieving voice messages from potential clients and entering them into the online scheduling system
• Calling clients to schedule appointments
• Making follow-up calls to confirm appointments

Paperwork and packet assembly

• Assembling packets of paperwork for each animal
• Assembling “goodie bags” for volunteers and/or clients
• Preparing and mailing reminder postcards
• Organizing and labeling microchips

Delivery

• Delivering materials to participating clinics on or before Spay Day
• Delivering food to clinics on Spay Day
• Picking up and delivering supplies as needed before or after Spay Day

Day-of clinic help

• Checking in clients
• Discharging clients
• Organizing animal packets and sorting microchip registration forms

Fundraising and donations

• Soliciting sponsorship from local businesses
• Soliciting in-kind donations of food and volunteer "thank-you" gifts
• Soliciting in-kind donations of volunteer "thank-you" gifts

Veterinarians and technicians

• Providing medical services to clinics without staff

Publicity

• Distributing Spay Day fliers to local businesses, clinics and community centers.

Data entry/database maintenance

• Data entry of microchip numbers using Excel (pre-Spay Day)
• Assigning microchip numbers to each animal scheduled in online scheduling system (pre-Spay Day)
• Sorting microchip registration forms by number (post-Spay Day)
• Reconciling discrepancies in microchip registrations (post-Spay Day)
• Creating final spreadsheet of assigned microchip information (post-Spay Day)
• Updating final outcome for each appointment in online scheduling system (post-Spay Day)

Clinic site supervising

• Act as primary point of contact for assigned clinic
• Ensure that all necessary supplies and paperwork are delivered to assigned clinic in a timely manner.
• Be on-site at assigned clinic thoughout Spay Day to ensure that all clinic needs are met.
• Manage intake/discharge and any other lay clinic volunteers
• Record outcome of all clinic appointments
• Collect and sort all paperwork and leftover supplies at end of Spay Day