Springtime is coming, and while that means blooming flowers and deep cleaning for many, for Adopt-a-Pet.com it’s time to give out some love. For the third year in a row, Adopt-a-Pet.com will be giving away $100,000 in Seresto® product grants. Seresto® collars can help keep dogs and cats protected from fleas and ticks for 8 continuous months. These grants are for shelters and rescues caring for cats or dogs while they are waiting to be adopted. Thank you to our compassionate friends at Seresto® for their part in making these grants possible!
Please read the rules carefully:
2021 RULES
- Do not email attached files like Word, PDF, PowerPoint files – they will not be opened. Photo attachments – such as JPG, GIF, or PNG photos – are allowed.
- Only one application email per active Adopt-a-Pet.com shelter/rescue organization will be accepted in 2021. (Do not reapply for each period as your application is good for the calendar year).
- The application deadlines for this grant program’s three periods are
Spring: April 30, 2021
Summer: August 6, 2021
Fall: October 31, 2021 - This grant program is open to US shelters and rescues only.
- You will receive an auto-reply email receipt which confirms we received your application.
- Please do not contact us asking for the status of your application.
- Only grant recipients will be contacted. We will reach you if you’re a recipient!
- Grant recipients are selected from qualifying finalists at the sole discretion of Adopt-a-Pet.com.
- By applying for this grant, you agree to the submissions license below and agree to provide Adopt-a-Pet.com with follow-up photos and descriptions of how the grant helped the pet or pets in your care.
- You must have an approved & active Adopt-a-Pet.com shelter or rescue account to qualify for a grant. An approved account is one that was approved after signing up – you received your approval email, and pets you list on Adopt-a-Pet.com are visible to the public. An active account has, within the last 30 days, either: a) logged in and viewed your Pet List or added a new pet, or b) added a new pet via uploading software. Not sure? You can log in and view your Pet List here which will mark your account as active.
- Don’t have an account yet? No problem! You can sign up for an Adopt-a-Pet.com shelter or rescue account here. You can apply after you get your approval email and have listed a pet for adoption.
How to Apply for a Grant:
An authorized representative of your shelter or rescue should send one email to [2021 is CLOSED] with these 11 items:
1. Shelter or rescue name:
2. Shipping address for a daytime weekday UPS delivery:
Name:
Address (no PO Boxes):
City:
State:
ZIP:
3. Social Media
This is optional! Six out of the twenty grants will include voting on social media. To be eligible for one of those four grants, provide links to your accounts and number of followers for…
a) Facebook
b) Instagram
c) Twitter
4. Your contact information
Your first and last name:
Your title or affiliation with the shelter/rescue:
Telephone number where we can reach you if you’re selected for a grant:
Best email for us to reach you if you’re selected for a grant:
5. 2020 total feline intake:
6. 2020 total feline adoptions:
7. 2020 total canine adoptions:
8. 2020 total canine intake:
9. Attach at least two photos of the pets who will benefit, and/or photos and stories of pets with your organization in the past who benefitted from being treated with Seresto®.
We love before and after photos, and high quality (over 150kb preferred) photo files too! Check out some photo tips & tricks here.
10. Optional but encouraged: Link to a video online that shows pets at your organization, highlighting your before and after transformations if possible.
11. Describe how receiving and using Seresto® for dogs or cats would benefit or has benefitted pets in your organization’s care:
We hope our grant application process is easy and clear! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask us at helpdesk@adoptapet.com.
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Submissions License: Each Participant or Charity may have the opportunity to submit videos, photos, text, or other content (“Submissions”) to the Adopt-a-Pet.com Seresto® “Circle of Love” Grants (“Program”). Each Submission will remain the property of the respective Participant or Charity who will have sole responsibility and liability for any claims related to those Submissions. However, each Participant and Charity grant Adopt-a-Pet.com and its affiliated companies a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, unconditional, fully paid right and license: (a) to make, have made, use, copy, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works of any Submissions provided by Participant or Charity through the Program, (b) to publicly perform or display, import, broadcast, transmit, distribute (directly and indirectly through multiple tiers), license, offer to sell and sell, rent, lease, or lend copies of the Submissions (and derivative works thereof), and (c) to sublicense to third parties the foregoing rights, including the right to sublicense to further third parties. Additionally, each Participant and Charity consent to the use of his/her/its name, statements, photographs, videos, voice recordings and likenesses for publicity purposes, as well as any other purpose associated with the Program. Each Participant and Charity agrees such grant and consent is without restrictions or additional compensation or permission of any kind.
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