11/21/2025
Give To The Max Day...
Those 5 words elicit many different feels in the animal rescue world, and even in the non profit world of Minnesota.
You see the day was created to bring the community together on the same Thursday in November every year and donate to their favorite charities. It is 24 hours, where every Minnesota non profit vies for the same donation dollar.
Many organizations spend all year planning for this day. They have committees who organize social media posts, emails, mailings and even phone calls to promote their organization. All day long on this day, charities are sharing success stories, struggles, and other reasons why they deserve your money.
I cannot even begin to count the number of amazing organizations across the state that deserve donations.
Unfortunately, every year seems to be about the same. The same groups raise the most and the same groups struggle to even reach their goal of $500 or even $1000. We are all out here doing our best everyday for a cause we are passionate about. As the director of RPAW, I have tried every way to figure out how to get the golden key that unlocks the donations I personally feel that our organization deserves. Years ago I would plan for this day and I would stay up and post stories every hour on the hour showing the amazing work we were doing. Every year would end the same, feeling like I failed for some reason.
The past few years I have really grown to dislike this day. Not because of the idea or theory behind it, but because I am not going to post all day long about why our group is "better" or more deserving. We are all working very hard and most will never know how all consuming it is. This day will not continue to define me or my organization. This is why you haven't seen any posts from us today.
I will say this, we are working night and day to run this rescue and to run an amazing non profit veterinary clinic to help so many other organizations and people. We will continue to do this and hopefully along the way people will notice and they will donate what they are able, when they are able.
To all of the amazing individuals that have donated on our givemn page, THANK YOU. To all of you who have ever donated to us, THANK YOU.
The fees on the givemn page are very high and the money takes at least a month to reach the organizations. If you would like to donate to us today for the life saving work we are doing everyday, feel free to do so in any other following ways:
Venmo:
Website: www.rpaw.org
Mail: PO Box 490201 Blaine, MN 55449
Facebook: link in this post
The photo is of a new soul we took in this week. Her name is Penelope, or Ms P, and she is an 8 week old French Bulldog with Hydrocephalus. We will introduce her properly soon. Just know, that we are doing all we can to help all we can.
I also want to personally wish every organization today a wonderful turn out of donations but also the feeling of peace with the outcome no matter what because it doesn't define you ❤️
