Rainier Animal Fund

Mission

Working to ensure advanced veterinary care is accessible to all Washington pets, so that they might thrive and live healthy, happy lives with the people who love them.

Description

The Rainier Animal Fund works in partnership with its larger network of veterinary professionals to help provide free and low-cost advanced veterinary care to families who cannot afford the full cost of treatment. This is accomplished through advanced veterinary care and surgical clinics along with subsidized, non-elective veterinary care grants for qualifying low-income families.

About Us
The Rainier Animal Fund (RAF) was officially established at Rainier Veterinary Hospital as a 501c3 in November of 2016. The fund's initial mission was to be a medical resource for homeless or abused pets in need of emergency veterinary medical care. Following the fund's inception, RAF was able to step-in to care for a handful of emergent cases.

In 2019, RAF expanded its mission to help provide free medical veterinary care to families and pets in need. This initiative will be accomplished through surgical and advanced veterinary care clinics along with medical grants to qualifying low-income families.

Continued founder Dr. Nicholson, "At RAF, we recognize that access to affordable veterinary care is beyond the reach for many families. We want to be there to help those pets get the care they so desperately need. It is for this reason that RAF is expanding its mission. We are setting the stage now to raise the funds we need to make this all possible. We also look forward to working alongside our nonprofit colleagues in the field who have active programs in the Seattle area and are as equally committed to achieving these goals."

The Rainier Animal Fund is a 100% volunteer organization that is able to implement its programs through its larger network of veterinary professionals, community partners and sister hospitals; Bothell Pet Hospital, Elliott Bay Animal Hospital and Rainier Veterinary Hospital.

All funding and in-kind donations go directly to supporting the RAF mission and its programs.