Volunteering

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Volunteers are the life-blood of SEGA, and it requires a tremendous amount of individuals and labor-hours “behind the scenes” to receive the Greyhounds from the track, and to clean, feed, and care for the dogs prior to their adoption.  You can get involved and assist our efforts to find these wonderful hounds good homes in a variety of ways.

Fostering

Fostering is always one of our most critical need areas, and is one of the best things an individual and family can do to help SEGA, one Greyhound at a time.  Fostering entails welcoming a hound into your home on a temporary basis to help start its acclimation to its new life as a family pet. Click here for more information about fostering.

SEGA Hound Walking

While the Greyhounds await their adoption, we help care for them during their stay in the greater Atlanta area, which includes an evening “turn out” or walking. Click here for more information about hound walking.

Meet & Greets

“Meet & Greets” are one of our most public facing roles as an organization and encompasses setting up and manning a table in front of a pet store. It helps build public awareness for the breed and helps spur interest in Greyhound adoption. Click here for more information about Meet & Greets.

Additional Activities with the Hounds

We also need volunteers to help with dog washing and occasionally with picking the dogs up from the tracks in Florida to bring them back to our kennel in Atlanta (a field trip!). These activities are done as required, so if you are flexible and want to get involved, let us know and we will put you on our list for when we have needs in this area. Click here for more information about additional activities.

Events

Another way to volunteer is through individual events, such as Greyfest or fundraising events such as lure coursing field trials or the Borders gift-wrapping program, where we provide people to wrap books during the holidays and get the proceeds as donations. Click here for more information about events.

SEGA Leadership Support

We all know the saying “Behind every good man is a good woman,” and we can assure you that behind every Greyhound we place there is a team of dedicated SEGA volunteers chairing committees to do all of the work to support these activities. Click here for more information about SEGA leadership support.

Donations

As any non-profit organization will tell you it takes a lot of money to keep our "business" running.  It costs approximately $50 dollars per week to feed and care for each dog in our kennel, which does not include the spay/neuter and dental vet expenses spent on each hound as soon as they enter our program. Click here for information on donating.

Volunteer Proviso

Being a volunteer for any non-profit, including SEGA, can never be considered a thankless job. However, many times our volunteers and committee leaders are quite busy and cannot begin to spend the amount of time necessary thanking everyone for their time and efforts helping with our passions. Please know that every penny and every minute spent volunteering and helping SEGA in furtherance of its mission is very much appreciated and respected! Of course, the thanks that we receive for volunteering with SEGA comes in the form of face licks and Greyhound smiles! Overall, we need to encourage volunteers to help the hounds, because of the shared passion to help find a home for EVERY hound with us!