There are three hours left in our fiscal year but what a three hours they’ll be. Because until midnight tonight all donations will be tripled. We help the homeless. We help the veterans. We help survivors of domestic violence; seniors, grandmothers, maybe even but we hope not, your grandmother? We help 85 year-old veterans with two oxygen tanks strapped to their wheelchairs who still get up to salute us when we’re done. We help 15 year-old cats with abscesses, we help 19 year-old dogs with tumors the size of baseballs. We help good souls with two legs and four and sometimes one or three or none. We judge not and those we do not judge bless us in return. We provide food for tens of thousands; veterinary care, spay-neuter, a host of other things too, thanks to a compassionate corps of veterinarians who go forth helping us help others. We crawl on knees in dirt through homeless camps; we step over the treasures stacked high in the homes of hoarders. We greet, we welcome, we smile. We start with love. We help people who have little left but their dreams and the love of their animals. These are proud people, even prouder animals. They do not beg. And they are gracious and kind and deeply appreciative even if they sometimes forget to say thank you because they are so overcome with joy. We pretty much help anyone in honest need because it could be any of us. Life works that way. But we can’t do it without you, and that’s why we’re here now, 9pm on a Friday night, asking for your help. Because we need you. If you can give, now is the time to do it. Do it for you. Do it for a friend. Donation link is here: https://www.thepongofund.org/contact/donation-page/.

Checks can also be mailed to The Pongo Fund, PO Box 9000, Portland, OR, 97207. Please get in touch with any questions, because we can stretch a dollar a lot farther than you might know. Thank you for reading 

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