WAYS TO HELP AT NO COST ---- YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

With an operating budget of close to $1 million/year, of course Donations and Memberships are critical to our ability to care for the cats. We cannot exist without this financial support. But you can make a very significant difference in other important ways as well.

There are many ways to support our cats and help end abuse that cost nothing. Some are actions you can take or avoid. Others are ways to make purchases you already make in ways that result in funding for the sanctuary.

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE

Big Cat Credit Card

You can give more without spending more by turning your everyday spending into meaningful donations with a customized Big Cat Rescue Capital One credit card. Share your passion and donate to Big Cat Rescue with your everyday purchases. We've partnered with Capital One® Card Lab Connect to bring you our newest fundraising program, which helps us earn money doing what you do every day! Just carry one of our custom credit cards (it comes with a competitive rate and no annual fee), and 1% of purchases made with the card will be donated to Big Cat Rescue.

Not only will you be donating to the cats with each purchase you make, you'll be helping to spread the word when people see your wildly unique card, designed specifically for Big Cat Rescue. Three custom cards are currently available featuring Cameron the lion, Cheetaro the leopard, and Shere Khan & China Doll the tigers! What a great way to share the cats' stories every time you pull out your credit card. Tell others too by downloading Credit Card Flyer

Sharing your passion and your support is easy and automatic. Apply today!

https://www.cardlabconnect.com/Big Cat Rescue

Visit the sanctuary. Revenue from day tours, kids tours, feeding tours, keeper tours, photo tours and private group tours covers about half of the cost of caring for the cats.

Volunteer at the sanctuary.

Volunteer remotely by becoming an “Advocat”. Help stop abuse and support better laws by joining thousands of other big cat lovers in making our voices heard.

Become an Intern for three months.

Send us items on our Wish List .

Recycle your used inkjet printer ink cartridges, laser toners and cell phones to benefit the cats.

Join our Legacy Society to remember the cats in your estate planning.

See how you can investigate and expose abusers. Be a Saber Tooth Sleuth.

When you see big cat abuse take photos and post them and your report on 911 Animal Abuse site

Visit our Corporate Sponsor page to show them you appreciate their support.

Use your Social Networking to help build awareness by linking to us from MySpace, Facebook etc. and watching and rating our cool videos on YouTube.

Hold a Meeting or Party, company or personal, in our Party House in a relaxing, rustic setting at the sanctuary. Events can include various levels of tour from a short walk to see a few cats to a full tour.

Participate in our Contests and Raffles.

Vote for us in online contests when available. (none currently, but register here to receive alerts so you know when you can help in this way)

Create a wedding gift registry with the I Do Foundation's partner stores and up to 10% of gift purchases will be donated to your favorite charity. Choose Big Cat Rescue when you register HERE.

Run a fundraiser for Big Cat Rescue on Razoo.com Find out more about Razoo Fundraising for Big Cats

ACTIONS TO AVOID

You can help by NOT doing the following and discouraging others from doing so. Click to see more about each:

- Don’t go see the new white tiger cub on display. Details on white tigers

- Don’t attend performing acts or traveling displays containing big cats. Why not?

- Don’t participate in offers to pet or have photos taken with a cub or adult big cat. Why not?

SHOPPING FOR GIFTS OR THINGS YOU ALREADY BUY

You can help at no extra cost by making purchases you would otherwise make in ways that generate donations to Big Cat Rescue. Looking for gifts or items you need for yourself? Please consider these alternatives:

Give a Kids Membership or Adult Membership to Big Cat Rescue as a gift instead of an object

Shop in our online Prostore Gift Shop

Send a card to someone. We make it easier and cheaper than ever before for you to send a real printed card with our two new card programs.

Enthusem allows you to upload your own photos, or choose from ours, and send a card for less that what it would cost you to buy a card and postage in the store. Find out more HERE.

SendOutCards allows you to upload your own photos, or choose from ours, and send a card at prices lower than what you would pay for cards and postage from the store. The difference is that when people get your cards and see how purrsonalized they are, they will probably want to do it too. If they do, you get paid. Find out more HERE

Shop in our eBay Store

Sell your own stuff on eBay to help the big cats.

Purchase elegant cat themed home décor and jewelry selected by award winning designer Barbara Krai through our Luxe Line.

Buy or renew your favorite Magazine Subscriptions at up to 85% off newsstand prices and have 40% of your online purchase donated to Big Cat Rescue. Over 650 popular titles.

Like Bingo? Try our bingo card game where you can win $500 and proceeds go to the cats.

Dine at Whiskey Joe’s restaurant not far from us on the Courtney Campbell Causeway. A portion of your check is donated to Big Cat Rescue.

For a wide array of items you can customize with our logo, cat photos and slogans visit:

Our Café Press store

Our Zazzle store has big cat calendars, logo items and many other Big Cat Rescue items.

Shop at online stores who donate part of your purchase to us:

Shop for Museums is a way to shop at the online stores of many national retailers and have a portion of their purchase donated to Big Cat Rescue at no extra cost to you.

Amazon - Enter through our portal. Prices the same, but part of purchase is donated.

Albertson’s – Available if you live in, AZ, CO, FL, NE, NM, LA, TX or WY

Sell on eBay and Benefit Big Cats

eBay has a non-profit component called eBay Giving Works. Through this, Big Cat Rescue and many other charities may use eBay to promote items for reduced fees.

But another large purpose of eBay Giving Works is to allow other eBay sellers to choose a registered charity to automatically receive a portion of their eBay sales.

In 2008, Big Cat Rescue had 640 community sellers through the eBay Giving Works program. These sellers raised over 2,800 dollars for Big Cat Rescue by selling through eBay! We would like to take this opportunity to say Thank You and let our community sellers know how grateful we are for their donations.

If you are a community seller who provided address information through Mission Fish, you will receive a thank you note and tax receipt for the total we received from your efforts.

If you are not a Big Cat Rescue Community Seller through eBay but are interested in becoming one, it only takes five easy steps!

1. When selling an item on eBay, under the “Choose how you'd like to sell your item” tab there is an eBay Giving Works option.
2. If you are already a community seller for Big Cat Rescue, the icon will show up automatically. Otherwise click on “Or, select another nonprofit you love”.
3. In the “Nonprofit name or key word” search box, type in Big Cat Rescue.
4. When Big Cat Rescue shows up, hit the "Select" button.
5. You automatically return to your “Choose how you’d like to sell your item” tab with Big Cat Rescue selected. All you have to do choose the Donation percentage you want Big Cat Rescue to receive when your item sells!

eBay Giving Works also provides benefits for sellers who participate in the program – check out what you receive in return at http://www.ebaygivingworks.com/.

Thank you again to all of our community sellers who have chosen to include Big Cat Rescue in their nonprofit giving through eBay!

Social Networking for Big Cats

If you have an account at MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Photobucket, AOL, or any of the myriad of social networking sites, you can help promote Big Cat Rescue. Add us as a friend, watch, rate and embed our videos, or post photos of our cats with links to our site. Your visitors will love it and you will be helping to save the big cats!

Get the code for the cool little photo badge below to display on your own site:

bigcatrescue.org

Visit Big Cat Rescue

Get code HERE

It's a great way to support the cats at no cost to you!

Big Cat Rescue's sites:

Blogger http://bigcatnews.blogspot.com

FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2235230005 Add our donation app to your page!

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/BigCatRescue/

Jumpcut http://jumpcut.com/bigcatrescue

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/BigCatRescue

MySpace http://www.myspace.com/1BigCatRescue

PhotoBucket http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x243/BigCatRescue/

Twitter http://twitter.com/bigcatrescue

VEOH TV http://www.veoh.com/users/BigCatRescue

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/bigcatrescue

Suggest a site to Info@bigcatrescue.org

MySpace Post a Charity Badge

If you have a web page, or a My Space page or if you use email you can create a Charity Badge for your site that tells everyone why you love Big Cat Rescue and shows how much money you have raised with the badge as people click through to donate.

At the right is one that we created and you can cut and paste the code into your page or you can make one yourself at SixDegrees.org and use your own photo, your own words and you can link to one of our videos to help explain who Big Cat Rescue is to your friends.

Here is the code:

Here are links to two of our PSA video clips:

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v7395207GTJtexJ

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v746356Gmnfq3Fk

Adding us as a friend on your social networking site helps raise awareness for the cats.

Shop for Museums

Raise Funds for Big Cat Rescue at No Extra Cost to You!

Big Cat Rescue is excited to announce its involvement as a Museum Partner with ShopforMuseums.com. As a Museum Partner, anyone shopping online with their favorite national retailers can have a portion of their purchase directed to Big Cat Rescue at no additional cost.

Whether you are in the market for books, office supplies, apparel, gifts, travel reservations, home improvement, school supplies, toys, electronics, flowers or gourmet food…You name it, the place to start is at ShopforMuseums.com!

Participation is simple and secure. To designate a portion of your next online purchase to Big Cat Rescue, simply:

• Go to www.ShopforMuseums.com
• Click on Shop Now!
• Click on Big Cat Rescue (we’re on the first page, very easy to find!)
• Then just click on the link of the store you want to visit and go about your shopping. Stores are organized by categories.

The percentage of your purchase will help feed the cats as long as you begin each time at ShopforMuseums.com. You can also create a login where you can track your donations and allow Big Cat Rescue to thank you personally for your contributions.

Please use ShopforMuseums.com each time you shop online and spread the word to friends and family. Big Cat Rescue appreciates your support.

Corporate Sponsorships:

Finances@bigcatrescue.org

Magazine Subscriptions Save Cats:

Help support Big Cat Rescue by renewing your favorite magazine subscriptions, subscribing to new magazines, or giving gift subscriptions to friends, relatives, and/or business associates.

� Choose from over 650 popular titles.
� Save up to 85% off newsstand prices.
� 40% of your online purchases will benefit Big Cat Rescue!

Run a Razoo Fundraiser on Your Social Networks

Participate in a fundraising race or event for a Big Cat Rescue and use Razoo to collect donations from all of your supporters. Use it as a way to let people do something for your birthday or holidays rather than buying you a gift that you really don't want or need.

Host a real or virtual event in support of Big Cat Rescue and ask attendees to donate to your fundraiser on Razoo. Their donation receipts can serve as “tickets” to the event!

Creating a Fundraiser takes only 5 minutes. To get started, set up a free Razoo account and Create a Fundraiser. Customizing your Fundraiser page is simple: you can include a personal story about why you love Big Cat Rescue as well as a photograph or a YouTube video related to Big Cat Rescue.

Once your Fundraiser page is complete, use the “ShareThis” button at the bottom of the screen to send friends and family a link to your fundraiser through email, Facebook, Twitter, and any other social media tools you use. Razoo is powered by Network for Good and the best part is that they do all of the donation processesing for free so that 100% of the donations go to Big Cat Rescue. Get started with Razoo now!

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