Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals

Mission: The mission of the beaver county humane society is to protect all domestic animals by providing shelter and care; adoption services investigation; correction or prosecution of crulety or abuse situations; education and promotion of the concepts of kindness and respect for all living creatures throughout beaver county.

Target demographics: the animals and the 167,500 people living in Beaver County and contigeous counties

Direct beneficiaries per year: 4,000 animals annually. Adoptions have more than doubled from 963 in 2013 to 1,990 last year.

Geographic areas served: Located about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, PA, and is the only animal shelter in Beaver County.

Programs: shelter and care; finding homes for homeless animals; protecting animals from abuse, cruelty or neglect situations; a lost and found service; a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program for feral and community cats; a low-cost spay-neuter service for owned kittens and cats; humane education programs; a pet food bank; and emergency/indigent pet care for the elderly or victims of domestic violence or homelessness.