Since its inception, The Summerlee Foundation has promoted a new ethic towards our fellow beings through its international grantmaking program in support of rescue research, advocacy and education. Our grants have assisted a wide variety of projects, including companion animal issues, predator protection and research, sanctuary and refuge, and endangered species issues. Many of these projects have been controversial, all of them have been critically important.

Now we face new crises in the protection of non-human animals. Gains we have made in the last 30 years are being reversed. Habitat is being threatened and destroyed. Cruelty and animal suffering is on the rise. Wildlife faces death at the hands of poorly managed programs which were once designed to protect. The challenges are serious and many. Unfortunately, we have fewer resources available to successfully defeat these new threats.

In response, The Summerlee Foundation has narrowed its focus considerably and has created a variety of strategic initiatives to achieve its mission of animal protection throughout North America with the resources available to us. Geographically, we are funding only in those communities which are the most underserved and the most challenged. Programmatically, we are only funding spay/neuter programs and feral cat protection. With a special grant award, we are continuing our support of the Spay Neuter Assistance Program in Houston, Texas and the Mexico partnership, as well as a southern New Mexico project. In our wildlife program, we are emphasizing funding for mountain lion and coyotes through research, advocacy and protection. We are continuing our cetacean program by funding the Sunny Initiative through the Earth Island Institute. Currently, we are not accepting any unsolicited proposals as our initiatives are receiving the bulk of our funding.

The Summerlee Foundation is enormously proud of the achievements of its grantseekers and congratulates all of you for your vision, your dedication, and your ability to make a difference. Don’t give up the Fight.

Dorothy Lathrop, author and artist, wrote in 1951, "For all of us are earth creatures and all must live here together. We are the strongest. It is in our power either to destroy or to protect the weaker ones. We have destroyed without mercy. Let us now protect with our strength those creatures that are left, and save their food, their homes and their lives from those who would selfishly take all these away. For each creature loves its life as we do ours. It loves the earth, and the sun and each new day."

The Summerlee Foundation

ANIMAL PROTECTION PROGRAM

Melanie A. Lambert, Program Director

716 North Tejon, Suite 9, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Phone: 1-800-256-7515

Fax: 719-266-5459

Principal Office

The Summerlee Foundation

5956 Sherry Lane, Suite 610, Dallas, Texas 75225-8017 USA

Phone: 214-363-9000 Faxline: 214-363-1941 • Toll Free 1-888-363-9003

E-mail: info@summerlee.org