Imagine being in a car accident that leaves you with limited use of your arms and legs. Imagine being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy or one of the myriad of other muscle diseases that strike many in the prime of their lives. Imagine being born with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or birth defects that severely affect your strength and dexterity. Imagine losing friends and loved ones because of your disability or just not being capable of getting out to make friends.

Close your eyes and imagine having to depend on someone for almost everything you need. Imagine that there is a canine solution to loneliness, depression and getting help in doing many of the taken for granted tasks in life.

Imagine rows and rows of pleading, sad puppy eyes locked up in animal shelter pens, hoping for a chance at a new life but making it only as far as the gas chamber. It happens every week in shelters across the country. Many of these dogs have all the right stuff to become an assistance dog. Imagine that with your help these two worlds will come together to form a bond, a lifelong loving partnership. Disabled people placed with an assistance dog gain a greater sense of independence and responsibility. They depend on their dogs for help and companionship, and the dogs depend on their people for food, shelter and love.

Help Us Rescue Hope

Your donation can held to provide independence, happiness, and hope to a disabled person and a canine in need of each other. We are asking you to consider a gift toward this important community service program and to join us in our effort to ensure the success of a disabled person and his/her assistance dog.

Many disabled adults and families of disabled children have lower than average incomes. Statistics gathered from applicants to NLMAD indicate the median income to be $1130 per month. Of those, 56% are not able to work or go to school. It is therefore not possible for most potential recipients to pay the entire cost of a dog.

NLMAD has found that asking recipients to raise $1000 on their own helps to screen that person's potential for benefiting from the services of an assistance dog. Recipients who have been motivated to do some small scale fundraising have shown higher rates of quality of life improvement and have provided better care for and use of their dogs.

The remainder of the cost of each dog is made up from donations by individuals, churches, civic groups, charitable foundations, corporations, and disabled advocacy groups. New Life Mobility Assistance Dogs, Inc is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law and will help to save the life of a shelter dog and to enrich the life of a disabled person.

What Your Contribution Can Provide

$8000		rescue, vaccination, housing, training, and graduation for a dog
$2500		six months of training for a dog
$1500		training for a recipient
$750		housing and vet care for a dog
$500		food for a dog for a year
$400		housing for a dog
$250		leather harness for a dog
$200		vet care for a dog or cost of graduation for dog and recipient
$150		rescue a shelter dog and provide pest preventative
$100		leashes, collar, and shoes for a dog or flea and tick or heartworm preventative for a dog
$75		x-rays for a dog to be checked for hip dysplasia
$50		collar and microchip for a dog
$40		microchip for a dog
$30		two backpacks for a dog
$20		nylon harness for a dog
$10		collar for a dog
$5		feed a dog for one day