MVMA Charities: Programs Designed to Help with Stray Animals, International Veterinary Efforts, and Emergency and Disaster Preparedness and Response.  MSPCA Needs Your Help! Funds for horse care are depleting fast, just as more horses need shelter and care. Please read more at the MSPCA website and help if you can. Thanks!

Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association and its members place a high value on volunteerism and working toward a common good. To that end, members lend support to MVMA-organized entities that channel our resources and maximize the impact of our efforts. In early 2008, the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association adopted an affiliated corporation – Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association Charities, Inc. – to serve as its charitable arm. With the creation of MVMACI as a 501(c)3 supporting organization to MVMA, the MVMA Stray Animal Fund, Inc., has been dissolved.

MVMACI is organized to further the charitable and educational purposes of the MVMA by providing the fund-raising and administrative umbrella for programs involving stray animals in Massachusetts, MVMA’s international projects, and emergency and disaster programs. With its broad statement of purpose, MVMA Charities, Inc., aims to meet the wide-ranging and expanding charitable needs of MVMA’s ventures.  Click here to read our Information Sheet.

 

By the beginning of 2009, MVMACI intends to introduce a reimbursement program, working with town and city Animal Control Officers, for veterinary care provided to stray animals. With 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts, MVMA Charities, Inc., needs to greatly increase its financial resources to be able to provide more than a token payment for this animal care. With your donation, we can start making an impact sooner!

 

Forms for the Stray Animal Program:

Forms for the International Animal Welfare Program:

Forms for the Emergency and Disaster Program:

NEW!  Information about our Oxygen Mask Program!  Click here to read the letter provided at MVMA's May CE Meeting.

 

The officers and directors of MVMA Charities, Inc., are

  • Martha Smith, DVM, Animal Rescue League of Boston, Boston, MA, President and Director
  • Vice President (non-voting position filled by MVMA Executive Director)
  • David Schwarz, DVM, Ashland Animal Hospital, Ashland, MA, Clerk and Director
  • Adam Arzt, VMD, Metrowest Veterinary Associates, Milford, MA, Treasurer and Director
  • Seymour Bigman, DVM, Needham, MA, Director
  • David Dunn, DVM, North Shore Animal Hospital, Inc., Lynn, MA, Director
  • Emmanuel Maciel, Animal Control Officers Association of Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA, Director
  • Richard Rodger, DVM, North Grafton, MA, Director

We appreciate your donations. Contributions to these charitable programs are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law; consult your tax advisor if you have questions. If you have questions, contact us at MVMACharities@massvet.org.

Send your check and a completed donation form (the form will open in a new window for you to print) to

MVMA Charities, Inc.
163 Lakeside Ave
Marlborough, MA 01752

Thank you!

MVMA Charities, Inc. and MVMA Programs

MVMA Charities Project Samana is a voluntary veterinary relief effort made twice yearly in Samana, the Dominican Republic. Veterinarians, technicians, students, and others treat animals both large and small. Supported by MVMA, private and corporate donations, and contributions to the Christopher Dillmann, DVM, Memorial Samana Fund.

MVMA Charities Mazunte Turtle Project combines small animal spay and neuter surgery with wildlife protection, as we impact the population of stray dogs on the beaches of Mazunte and stop them from preying on sea turtle young and eggs.

 

MVMA Emergency Relief Fund was created to provide financial assistance to veterinarians who are adversely affected by an emergency or disaster, or to compensate those who respond to such events.

 

Other Charitable Programs

 

MVMA also supports the Veterinary Scholarship Trust of New England to provide loans for veterinary students and support veterinary education efforts and the MSPCA/MVMA Spay Neuter Assistance Program, which helps low-income pet owners afford the cost of spaying or neutering their pets. These separate entities are independent of MVMA and contributions to VSTONE and SNAP may be tax-deductible.

 

Our drive for Afghanistan is now concluded. We collected and sent 161 boxes totaling 2 tons of books, magazines, medicines, computers, veterinary supplies and equipment to help rebuild the country's veterinary program. Thank you to all who contributed!