Volunteer Application

Without all the volunteers, Arizona Greyhound Rescue would not exist.  Volunteers donate their time, talent, and money so that more retired racing greyhounds can be saved.  Our entire effort, and every single dog saved, comes from volunteers!  If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out the application below.  If you would like a paper version of this application, please call 520-886-7411 or request it by email.

Volunteer Code of Conduct - All volunteers must agree and abide by AGR's Code of Conduct to protect what is most important to the organization: the hounds.  AGR's Code of Conduct can be downloaded here.

Liability Waiver - All volunteers must also sign the liability of waiver form, which can be downloaded here.

AGR welcomes young volunteers but please read first. The minimum age is 12, no exceptions. Volunteers ages 12 to 15 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during all volunteer experiences. Volunteers who are ages 16 to 17 must have parental permission.

Please fill out the form in under 1 HOUR as your session will expire and you will no longer be able to submit the form.

Name Date

Address    Zip

Home Phone  

Cell Phone

Email address

Best time of day to reach you

How long have you been an AGR volunteer?

How did you hear about AGR?

Do you own a greyhound? Yes No  

Volunteers must be at least age 12 . (Minimum age is 12 years old.)
12 - 13 must be accompanied by a parent.
Ages 14 to 17 must work with an adult volunteer.
A liability waiver is required for anyone working or visiting the kennel.
Age (if under 18)

The following information is just to get to know you. AGR will not release it

Current Employer:

Position:

Hobbies:

Skills that you may use at AGR:

Please mark all areas where you would like to volunteer:

(exercise, clean cages, feed, bathe, trim nails)
Available
 Mon. am      Tues. am    Wed. am    Thurs. am  Fri. am    Sat. am  Sun. am


Fostering is very rewarding. Helping a dog from the track become an awesome pet. There are several ways to foster  
Foster-teaching a dog from the track house manners to ensure that the dog will find aforever home. Often a 3 month or more commitment.

Respite-fostering a dog while it recovers from medical issues or for the foster family.Usually a shorter time than full time fostering.

Emergency -short time fostering if there is an emergency concerning the foster family oradopter.

Meet and Greets –bring a foster dog or your own greyhound you ownto venues to meet the public. Help educatethe public and potential adopters about how wonderful greyhounds are as pets.
All Meet and Greets are scheduled from 11am to 1 pm.

Petsmart locations
Northwest (Orange Grove /Thornydale)    1st Sat., 2nd Sat., 3rd Sat. 4th Sat., 3rd Sun.
Grant/Swan, 2nd Sun., 4th Sun.
Broadway/Pantano, 1st Sun., 3rd Sun.

Petco locations
Spanish Trail/Harrison,   2nd Sun., 4th Sun.

Bookmans locations
Northwest (Ina Rd near Thornydale) Every other Sat.
East (Speedway/Wilmont) 4th Sat.

Transportation- transport kennel or foster dogs

To/from kennel to vet
To/from Meet and Greets
To/from kennel to AGR events

Adoptions- Findingdogs forever homes by coordinating adoptions and doing home checks

Adoption Coordinator- screens adoption applications, calls prospective adopters, deliver dogs, and mentors after adoption.

Home Checker – checks prospective adopter’s house to educate the adopter and look forgreyhound hazards.

Education/ Outreach- shows dogs in nursing homes, schools, churches, civic groups, children andretirement communities. To create awareness about greyhounds’ as pets and AGR’s mission

Fundraising – help raise funds for AGR to find forever homes, pay for kennel expenses, food, and veterinary care and expense for running a nonprofit rescue.

Dog Wash        Newsletter Appeal         Fall Fest          Silent Auctions
Santa Photos      Raffles       Other Fundraising Activities
if other please specify

Public Relations-help share AGR’s mission and available dogs through print, radio, TV, etc.

Oversee Petfinder      Research     Find Sponsors and Donors
Seek Public Service Announcements For TV or Radio       Write News Releases
Oversee Facebook/Twitter/Flickr

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Thank you. We hope you get involved to help the greyhounds.