Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animal-Related, Animals, Children & Youth, Human Services, Youth Community Service Clubs

Mission: Bunny Besties mission is to provide impactful Animal Assisted Interactions to support the emotional wellness of our community. We provide sanctuary to the rabbits in our program as well as resources and education to rabbit owners in our community. Bunny Besties vision is to be a resource for our community for emotional wellness, stress reduction and education with rabbits.

Results: Bunny Besties has been traveling around our community serving our mission on-site for our partners. Our partners include the University of Minnesota PAWS program, Homeless shelters serving children, libraries, nursing homes, hospice programs, and Minnetonka High School. We have served our partners with 446 on-site visits to their facilities. We have volunteered 8,420+ service hours from our organization into their organizations resulting in serving more that 23,749 community members. We may be a small nonprofit but we are dedicated to our mission and making a big impact in our community.

Programs: Our programs include bringing Animal Assisted Interactions and Animal Assisted Activities to nursing homes, high schools, universities, libraries, and any other local schools or organizations looking for a hoppy experience to reduce stress and bring emotional wellness to their organization. This includes our traveling rabbit agility show, our hoppy hour with our bunny castle and one on one therapy bunny cuddles.