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Sponsor a NEADS Litter With a $10,000 donation to NEADS, you can sponsor a NEADS-bred litter. Your donation will help us provide overall care for the mom and puppies while they are in our Nursery. The NEADS Nursery is a warm and welcoming safe place where the newborn pups and mom thrive during the important first 8 weeks of life. Your support helps us provide care, food, veterinary care, and the beginnings of socialization. If you’re interested in sponsoring a NEADS-bred litter, please contact Doreen Sheridan using the form below. Dr. Dennis J. Ovitsky Veterinary Care Fund The Dr. Dennis J. Ovitsky Veterinary Care Fund was established in Dr. Ovitsky’s memory by his family upon his passing in 2008 for the purpose of treating service dogs in our training program with severe or unusual medical conditions.* Donate to this fund to help ensure that we can continue to provide prompt and effective medical treatment to our Service Dogs who need additional levels of care. Donate here *On occasion dogs in our training program present with severe or unusual medical conditions, and NEADS uses this fund to treat and care for them. Once brought back to good health, these dogs are then adopted out as Furloughed Favorites.   Sponsor a Doggie Dorm With a $3,500 tax-deductible donation to NEADS, you can sponsor a “doggie dorm” to help all the dogs who will reside in that dorm for the year. Your partnership will provide enrichment the pups need while in their doggie dorm-fun toys, peanut butter treats and nylabones, to name a few. Over the course of a year, approximately five dogs live in each doggie dorm while they learn customized skills that will eventually help their future human partner. Our dogs like their dorms! By supporting multiple dogs in a dorm, you become an active and vital part of NEADS.
Details Your donation provides a home for all the dogs that reside within the doggie dorm of your choice for one year from signup date. Please understand that not all dogs have the right temperament to be Assistance Dogs and those dogs are adopted out to loving homes. By sponsoring a dorm, you do not own or retain any ownership rights to our dogs. Funds donated to sponsor a dorm cannot be restricted for a specific client or Service Dog program (i.e., Hearing Dog, Service Dog, Dogs for Veterans dog). Download a sponsorship form here. Pawsitively Strong Fund On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, NEADS announced that survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing who have sustained a permanent physical disability were to be offered Service Dogs through the creation of a new fund. NEADS worked in collaboration with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Victim Assistance Program and the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance to distribute information and identify potential recipients of Service Dogs. Through this collaboration, the fund is now opened to include survivors of violent crime in Massachusetts who have sustained a permanent physical disability, as a result of that crime, who feel that they would benefit from a Service Dog and qualify for the NEADS program. Additionally, the fund is open to those who have applied and been accepted for an Assistance Dog. These individuals must work directly with eligible victims of violent crimes in Massachusetts. Learn more about the fund here. Donate to the fund

Sponsor a Litter Donors

  • Jessica Kensky, NEADS Service Dog Rescue, and Patrick Downes – 2 litters

  • Worcester Fire Department

  • Friends of Larry Brennan and Service Dog Apple

Libby litter