by Janet Alderson | Jul 16, 2020 | 2020
While Gateway Pet Guardians (GPG) have been reimagining a new model for animal sheltering and community programming for quite some time, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing. Jamie Case, Executive Director of GPG and Janet Alderson, Community Director, share specific...
by Janet Alderson | Jul 15, 2020 | 2020
Is your animal shelter or rescue organization seeking to build community programming? Jamie Case, Executive Director at Gateway Pet Guardians (GPG), and Community Director, Janet Alderson, share tips on how their organization built their community programming on a...
by Janet Alderson | Jul 14, 2020 | 2020
By the time COVID-19 hit East St. Louis, IL, Gateway Pet Guardians (GPG) felt prepared. Thanks to years of taking a holistic, needs-based approach with their community, the small organization already had numerous programs in place that were conducive to the “new” way...
by Janet Alderson | Jul 2, 2020 | 2020
Those of us focused on solving the specific problem of dogs and cats being killed in shelters rarely characterize our work using the word “rescue” because it’s not all that relevant to most of what we do. Our work is about saving lives, supporting communities and...
by Janet Alderson | Jun 24, 2020 | 2020
Last year, Linda Hopkins lost her job. Then she got sick. With no money coming in, she began to worry about how she would feed her four cats ― that is, until she remembered Gateway Pet Guardians, an East St. Louis, Illinois, community organization that stepped up to...
by Janet Alderson | Jun 14, 2020 | 2020, Community outreach, COVID-19, Ways to get involved
The Pet Food Pantry was curbside for the month of June, and we were so happy to see so many familiar faces! Volunteers practiced social distancing and wore masks, delivering food directly to each family’s trunk. We distributed 818 pounds of dog food, 96 pounds...
