cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45455372

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45455331

🐾 Hello, Dog Lovers! 🐾

We’re Hope Paws Support Fund — a brand new, 100% volunteer-led 501©(3) nonprofit based in Lake Forest, serving all of Orange County (founded Feb 2026).

We started because too many dogs are at risk and too many families say goodbye. We can’t look away. We can’t do this alone.

What we do & our 2026 goal:

🏥 Emergency vet care for 12 dogs — keep families together

🚪 Fund rescues to pull 24 dogs from high-risk shelters

🚗 Transport dogs to safety, any distance for 12 dogs

🏡 Build foster/adoptive home network

We need you!

✅ Volunteers (transport, social media, outreach)

✅ Flyer distributors — print our flyer and hang it at your local coffee shop, vet clinic, library, or community board

✅ Supporters (shares, kind words, donations)

How to help:

📱 Message us or email [email protected]

🖨️ Download our flyer: https://hopepawsfund.org/resource/

💛 Donate: hopepawsfund.org/donate

📱 Volunteer — help with transport, social media, fundraising, or outreach: https://hopepawsfund.org/dog-rescue-volunteer-opportunities/

We’re small, but our hearts are big. Thank you! 🐾

Source: https://hopepawsfund.org/hello-dog-lovers-call-for-help/

    • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      7 days ago

      based in Lake Forest, serving all of Orange County

      OK, it doesn’t specifically say but … It’s in California, USA

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          6 days ago

          I mean I’m not donating but

          based in Lake Forest, serving all of Orange County

          That’s like saying it’s in Italy. Not really narrowing it down…

          Well it actually is more narrow than “country.” Unless we’re admitting “Italy and California” are closer than “Italy and The US,” which actually I agree with but people get mad when you remind them that EU countries are as big as individual states.

          But that aside: It’d be more like saying it’s in Florence, serving all of Tuscany. Actually it’s even less than that since Tuscany is 8,900 square miles and OC is 948 sq mi, but I don’t know Italy that well so it’s the closest I could get. Wiki seems to suggest it may be analogous to the province of Pisa at 945 sq mi.

          “Lake Forest, CA” itself (which is a part of OC) is only 16.79 sq mi, that seems fairly narrow to me. To narrow it down further, the Lake Forest resident responsible for this is “Natalia Boiko,” seems she is a Ukrainian who went to college in Kharkiv, she has a DV case against someone named Oleksii Boiko. It’s not exactly some anonymous thing here I found all this through wiki, linkedin, the 5013c’s website, duck duck go, and unicourt.