• January 2025 Growth Report

    January 2025 Growth Report

    Joybound Shelter to Service (Formerly ARF Pets & Vets) Thank you! Your visionary support for the ARF Pets & Vets campaign laid the foundation for Joybound’s Shelter to Service Program’s achievements today. Thanks to your investment in our training headquarters, …

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  • Jeff and Maddie Are Better Together

    Jeff and Maddie Are Better Together

    Joybound’s Shelter to Service training program (formerly Pets and Vets) heals and enriches lives far beyond those of the people and shelter dogs participating. Family and friends witness and also benefit from the joyful transformation. “My wife used to say …

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  • Animals on Broadway is Now Joybound Around Town on Broadway

    Animals on Broadway is Now Joybound Around Town on Broadway

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARF’s Animals on Broadway is Now Joybound Around Town on Broadway The Beloved Annual Celebration of Pets and Their People is Back for its 24th Year  What: Joybound Around Town, formerly Animal Rescue Foundation’s (ARF’s) Animals on Broadway, …

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  • Help Vets with PTSD Get Life-Saving Service Dogs (via NextAvenue.org)

    Help Vets with PTSD Get Life-Saving Service Dogs (via NextAvenue.org)

    PBS’s NextAvenue.org published an article about the growing number of opportunities nationwide for Veterans to receive psychiatric service dogs for their service-related trauma. Among the programs featured was Joybound’s Shelter to Service program! Our CEO Susan Lee Vick and longtime, …

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  • On Valentine’s Day, We Are Joybound

    On Valentine’s Day, We Are Joybound

    By Susan Lee Vick, CEO of Joybound People & Pets Roses and chocolate may be commercial symbols of love on Valentine’s Day – but for me, every day, it’s the wag of my dog’s tail or a cat’s thunderous purr …

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  • Will You Be Mine? Animal Rescue Foundation is now Joybound

    Will You Be Mine? Animal Rescue Foundation is now Joybound

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Will You Be Mine? Animal Rescue Foundation is now Joybound Beloved animal rescue organization celebrates the human-animal bond this Valentine’s Day and beyond; also hosting community adopt-a-thon Feb. 17 WALNUT CREEK, CA, February 14, 2024 – After …

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  • 2023 End of Year Video

    2023 End of Year Video

    Every December, we like to recap the past year in the form of a music video. 2023, your support made a world of difference for at-risk animals and pet guardians in need. This includes: Please enjoy some of the happy …

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  • The Animal Rescue Foundation Announces New Initiative to Expand Transformative Pets and Vets Program

    The Animal Rescue Foundation Announces New Initiative to Expand Transformative Pets and Vets Program

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Animal Rescue Foundation Announces New Initiative to Expand Transformative Pets and Vets Program A New Service Foster Dog Program Will Improve Access and Expedite Training for Veterans Seeking Psychiatric Service Dogs WALNUT CREEK, CA, November 1, …

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  • Jeff and Maddie Are Better Than Ever … Together

    Jeff and Maddie Are Better Than Ever … Together

    Pets and Vets had another remarkable year, and one of its most moving moments was the graduation of a new class of Pets and Vets shelter-to-service dog training teams. The celebration was a powerful and joyful reminder of the transformation …

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  • Infantry Marine Finds a Best Friend in his Service Dog

    Infantry Marine Finds a Best Friend in his Service Dog

    “I wholeheartedly suggest Pets and Vets. Saving Both Ends of the Leash® is not just a motto, but the truth.” Steve, u.s. marine Corps Veteran Steve first heard about Pets and Vets from a counselor at the Veteran Center in …

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  • Passing the Torch

    Passing the Torch

    A Conversation Between ARF’s New CEO Susan Lee Vick and Former Executive Director Elena Bicker ELENA BICKER: Time flies. It feels like just yesterday I was attending an ARF event and somebody said, “Hey, we need volunteers — especially fosters.” …

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  • Award-Winning Animal Rescue Organization Embarks on Exciting New Chapter

    Award-Winning Animal Rescue Organization Embarks on Exciting New Chapter

    After more than three decades of successful partnership, the Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) announced today that the organization and Tony La Russa have agreed to part ways

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