Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter Inc Barcs
Mission
The Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) is a nonprofit shelter that accepts and cares for all animals in need and promotes responsible pet ownership for a more humane community in Baltimore City.
Ruling year info
2005
Principal Officer
Jennifer Brause
Main address
2490 Giles Road
Baltimore, MD 21225 USA
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EIN
86-1130456
NTEE code info
Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs) (D20)
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
There is a seemingly endless inflow of animals in need; however, our employees and volunteers sustain themselves with the knowledge that each year we have saved more animals through raised awareness and increased community support. In just 15 years of operation, BARCS has seen an amazing increase in lives saved by breathing new life into the old City shelter. BARCS is now stepping up our efforts in tackling the massive problem of pet homelessness with specific solutions to increase adoptions, reduce euthanasia and to save even more lives now that BARCS' lifesaving reach stretches beyond our shelter and well into the community.
Our programs
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Animal adoptions
As Maryland's largest open-admission animal shelter, turning no animal in need away from our doors, BARCS provides individuals and families the opportunity to adopt a loving pet that is spayed or neutered and vaccinated at BARCS.
Low Cost Vaccine & Microchip Clinic
BARCS serves more than 3,000 publicly owned pets annually through our Low-Cost Vaccination Clinic. Clinics are held on the first Saturday of each month with some exceptions due to holidays or Vet availability. Call ahead or email to verify date: [email protected] or (410) 396-4695.
This low-cost clinic is not intended to replace the relationship between pet owners and their regular veterinarian. Only basic services and products are available at this clinic and veterinary advice on other matters will not be provided. It is important for an animal's overall health and well-being to be seen regularly by a private veterinarian.
Pet licensing
Licensing your is the law for residents of Baltimore City.
If your pet gets lost, a license tag on their collar is the fastest way to reunite you and your pet. Even if your pet is microchipped, a license tag is immediately visible and doesn't require a scanning device to read.
If your lost animal is found by a neighbor/resident, they have access to the public licensing database to find the pet and owners information, returning them right back to you without a stop at the shelter.
A current license lets people know that your pet has received the required vaccination to protect your dog from rabies.
Your pet's license shows that you are a responsible guardian.
As if that wasn't rewarding enough, as of July 2013, 100% of the proceeds from this program go directly toward caring for the animals at BARCS (i.e. not revenue for the city, but a donation to homeless animals in our community).
TNR of Baltimore City Community Cats
The humane, effective way to control the number of community cats is trap/neuter/return (TNR). Community cats are the feral and stray free-roaming cats. The BARCS Community Cat Program provides free help with trapping and spay/neuter surgery of outdoor community cats in Baltimore City.
Where we work
Our results
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animal adoptions
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Animal adoptions
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
BARCS provides families and individuals the opportunity to adopt a loving cat or dog that is spayed or neutered and vaccinated at BARCS. Over a thousand more are sent to Rescue (see Rescue section).
Number of animals rescued
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Animal adoptions
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
BARCS works with over 100 breed specific rescue that take dog and cat breeds into their care--saving 2 lives. That of the animal they take into rescue, which frees up a kennel to save another animal.
Number of animals euthanized
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Animal adoptions
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
In just a decade, BARCS lowered the euthanasia rate from a heartbreaking 98% when operating as the City Shelter to 15% in 2016 with our lifesaving programs and significant community involvement.
Goals & Strategy
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
BARCS has implemented many lifesaving programs and policies and is on the cusp of finding a home for every friendly, healthy and treatable animal that comes through our doors - a goal we can achieve within the next couple of years. In just eleven years of operation, BARCS has already reached our goal of saving all the adoptable healthy animals and are focusing on the remaining animals, which have medical and minor behavioral issues.
BARCS has consistently made giant inroads since taking over the City-run shelter 15 years ago. Little by little, as BARCS hired staff and increased programming, our tremendous lifesaving impact became evident. BARCS has begun to garner recognition from national foundations whose funding helps us continue to move forward with our mission.
BARCS has accomplished much in 15 years of operation and has a much greater vision for the future now that we have moved into our new City-built shelter on May 5, 2020—to strengthen existing programs to save more lives, to continue to increase adoptions, to provide additional services for families to keep their pets, provide outreach and education and to increase our ability to do more low cost or free Spay/Neuter surgery.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
BARCS' vision is to become a model open admission animal shelter, one that does not turn away an animal with no place to go, and is a true resource for the people and animals of Baltimore. We envision an animal shelter where all healthy and treatable animals find new homes; where they are housed in a low-stress; comfortable environment; where spay/neuter surgeries are offered at low-cost to the Baltimore community; where residents can turn in times of personal crisis for help with their pet; where citizens are educated on the proper care of animals; and where abused and neglected animals can receive the love and care they need to recover. However, one of our limiting factors in improving or implementing new programs, is the lack of resources, especially for additional staffing.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
To address the proliferation of unwanted animals that often become homeless, abused or neglected, BARCS provides spaying and neutering for all its adopted pets before they leave the shelter. But that is not nearly enough to stem the tide of continued live dog and cat births adding to more unwanted pets in Baltimore City.
As Maryland's largest open admission animal shelter, the BARCS staff, volunteers and Board of Directors will not rest until BARCS is able to find a loving home for every healthy and treatable animal that comes to BARCS for shelter.
Jennifer Brause is the Founder of BARCS and its executive director since its inception in 2005. Previously, she was as a senior marine mammal trainer at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and a veterinary technician. With a BS in Science but no background in nonprofit management, Jen took BARCS over from a union-lead city shelter with 10 employees and turned it into a well-respected, caring nonprofit shelter. She now leads a staff of 75 FTE, more than 400 active volunteers and has increased re-homing rate from only a handful of animals from when she took over to now well over 9,000 annually, dramatically increasing the number of lives saved.
Each member of the BARCS Board of Directors makes a personal financial contribution to BARCS, as well as work tirelessly to promote awareness for the mission of BARCS and help to create a more humane Baltimore.
Our work in turning the former City-run shelter around has been extremely challenging and emotional. There is a seemingly endless inflow of animals in need, however our employees and volunteers sustain themselves with the knowledge that each year we have saved more animals through raised awareness and increased community support. In just a decade of operation, BARCS has seen an amazing 3,200% increase in lives saved by breathing new life into the old City shelter.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over our 15 years of operation, BARCS has steadily increased adoptions from just 240 animals in 2005 to over 9,000 in 2019, as well as increasing our Live Release Rate to 90% and maintaining that rate for the past 3 years. BARCS has reached it's milestone goal by saving all of the healthy animals in Baltimore, leaving us with the treatable animals--those that need the most medical care or have minor behavioral problems.
On may 5,2020 BARCS was able to move into our new City-built shelter located in Cherry Hill-the zip code of our highest intake of animals. Our vision for the future now that we have moved into our new building is to increase access to care for under-resourced pet owners in addition to our lifesaving mission of increase adoptions while decreasing euthanasia and shelter intake.
Financials
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The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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- Highest paid employees
- Board of directors
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BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER INC
Board of directors
as of 5/13/2020
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair
Kathy Harvey
Harvey Agency
Term: 2018 - 2021
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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