The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is a refuge for injured female African and Asian elephants. It was founded in March of 1995 by Carol Buckley and Scott Blais.

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GCSE English

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Kaitey Fields

Mrs. Anderson

Research, 5th period

Friday, October 5

Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee

Non-profit organizations are corporations or associations that conduct buisness for the benefit of the general public without shareholders or a profit motive. Charities on the other hand are the voluntary giving of help to those in need. All charities must be non-profit, but not every non-profit organization is a charity. The purpose of a non-profit organization is usually to create a place where extra money can be spent to provide service and help to certain programs. Some known non-profit organizations are Red Cross, Goodwill, and the Humane Society. There are non-profit organizations for anything ranging from health to animals. One in particular is the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. It rescues female elephants and provides them an everchanging habitat, offers people chances to volunteer to help out the elephants, and uses every little bit of donations it recieve to directly help the elephants.

Since I love working with animals and learning about them I chose

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Thee Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee as my non-profit organization. The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is a refuge for injured female African and Asian elephants. It was founded in March of 1995 by Carol Buckley and Scott Blais. The inspiration for the sanctuary came from Tarra, an ex circus elephant. From there it strived to save one hundred elephants. She was also the first resident of the sanctuary. In 1997 the first internship program began and the brand new six stall Asian elephant barn was installed. The Ele-cam was installed in 1999. In 2001 it expanded the land adding a lake. And finally in July of 2003 the final land of 1820-acre land parcel was added to the facility making it the sanctuary that stands today. To acheive its goal of one hundred elephants it is constantly searching for endangered ones to save. They plan to keep saving elephants as long as their facilities allow them to. There are certain requirements that must be followed in order to maintain this non-profit organization such as sanitizing the barns atleast once a week. It is also required to have an eight-foot fence installed to keep people out. People not allowed to go and visit the elephants because they need to be free to roam around and just be elephants. They are already being forced to have human caregivers which is hard enough. The sanctuary strives to inform the public about the needs of these elephants as the facination with them keeps growing.

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public. Its educators try reaching out to kids and adults. Anyone who takes an intrest in the well being of the elephants. So far, it has twenty-seven elephants living in the sanctuary. In all they have saved a total of twenty-nine, having two elephants pass away. The sanctuary is well on its way of achieving the goal of one hundred saved elephants. It takes a long while to get an ill elephant back on its feet, and money too. The Elephant Sanctuary in Tenneesee uses newspaper articles, television coverage, and its website to attract contributers. Interns also find it thorugh these as well. The headquarters also happens to be the actual sanctuary located in Hohenwald, Tennessee. There is currently no other location for it because weather conditions are not right for elephants all over the US as Tennessee's is. There are only twenty-seven full time employees and two part time. That is roughly one care-giver per elephant. People, however, volunteer to help the sanctuary out. The volunteers do not come in direct contact with the elephants but their efforts benefit them. There are jobs such as painting the people fence that surronds the sanctuary, cleaning or removing barbed wire around the new habitat areas, or renovating the structures. If one can not get out to volunteer or the spaces fill up for all the available days theres always a time to donate money . Just go to the website and donate by credit card, or send money to the address. All money goes directly to helping the elephants survive. The sanctuary will accept any supplies

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offered. Each individual elephant has her own needs depending on what illness she has. But as a whole the sanctuary needs general things ranging from desktop document holders all the way to a Neverkink marine hose. Its are also in continuous need of dietary items like dried cranberries and peanut butter. Everything donated goes directly to the sanctuary so one can be sure his donations go to a good cause.

All money that goes to the santuary is put to good use. The sanctuary divides its money up between five categories. Shelter and care, research, education, management general, and fundraising. It spends about two million dollars on shelter, fifteen thousand on research, over seven hundred thousand dollars on management general, and over two hundred thousand on education and fundraising. The sanctuary has no set budget of what it spends a year, as long as donations keep comming in, it will spend all the money donated on the elephants. The spokesperson for the sanctuary is the Director of Facilities Development. It basically directs all activities at the sanctuary, a sort of semi-CEO. You should donate your money to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennesee because well, everybody loves elephants. If you want to see elephants in the circus or in zoos then they must be saved. The only way to save them and give the elephants the proper care they need is by using money. With help we can save thousands of elephants and never have to worry if they

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will become extinct.