Lend a Paw to Help Hospice Patients Keep Their Pets!

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Kim Nguyen

For the entire month of April, you can support the Banfield Charitable Trust’s Pet Peace of Mind program by voting for ’Help Hospice Patients Keep their Pets’ in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge. The Pet Peace of Mind program provides non-profit hospice programs with resources and funding to help hospice patients care for their Pets during end of life care. Without Pet Peace of Mind, hospice patients may need to part with their beloved Pets because of the lack of help for Pet care and expenses, such as going to the vet, feeding, walking or grooming.

For the month of April, the Pet Peace of Mind program is competing in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge for a $250,000 grant, which would fund more than one-third of interested hospice programs in 2010. A monthly online voting process determines the winners of the grant. By voting for this program once a day, you can help secure this grant for the Pet Peace of Mind program. It only takes three minutes to register and voting for this project will take less than one minute per day.

To Register and Vote Once a Day

  • To register: Go to www.refresheverything.com
  • Wait for entire page to load, including the blue bar at the bottom of the page
  • Click on “Join Refresh Everything” at lower left corner of blue bar
  • A small pop-up window will display-register (your info is not shared by Pepsi) and click on “Done.” The pop-up window will close. Listen for the sound of a Pepsi can opening and being poured. You are now ready to vote!
  • Type “Help Hospice Patients Keep Their Pets” in the white search bar at top right of home page. You can also do this for each time you want to vote again.
  • The project name will be in a bright pink bar with “HELP HOSPICE PATIENTS KEEP THEIR PETS” above Banfield Charitable Trust. You can look at the details by clicking on the project name or just click on “Vote for this idea”

Please check out our website for further details on Pet Peace of Mind, Pepsi Refresh and how to spread the word!



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