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The Piedmont Animal Welfare Alliance (PAW Alliance) is a volunteer-driven 503(c)(3) nonprofit in Forsyth County, NC focused on the intersection of animal welfare and social justice. Our mission is to make our community one where all pets and people have safe and loving homes. PAW Alliance is proud to offer two primary programs: A New Leash on Life and A New Start in Life.
A New Leash on Life is a dog training program of the NC state prison system. PAW Alliance partners with the Forsyth Correctional Center, a minimum-security men’s prison and offers 10-week training sessions. Under the guidance of a professional dog trainer, inmates learn how to work with dogs and train them in basic obedience. Dogs trained in the program have extremely high adoption rates and the offender trainers are learning marketable skills they can use to find employment after release. The dogs for our program come from a local rescue group to help those dogs most in need of some extra skills before they find their forever home.
A New Start in Life provides safety and care to pets of all varieties while survivors of interpersonal violence find safety. We provide loving foster homes or lodging, food and treats, medical care, toys, and all other needs, allowing the survivors to feel great relief knowing their pets are safe and loved. After they figure out their next steps and leave the shelter, survivors are reunited with their pets.
EIN: 82-2562731
Our Programs
NLOL
A New Leash on Life (NLOL) is a N.C. state prison dog-training program, where both dogs and inmates get a second chance. Our dogs live and work with qualifying inmate-trainers for 10 weeks, learning nice manners and obedience, house and crate training, and basic agility.
NSIL
PAW Alliance partners with Family Services of Forsyth County in A New Start in Life (NSIL) supporting interpersonal violence survivors and their pets. Many victims won’t leave the home, for fear their pets will be abused if they leave—if they haven’t been already—and often abusers use pets as hostages. If the victim does leave and finds a safe shelter, pets are rarely allowed.
YOU MAKE US HAPPEN
We are a all-volunteer nonprofit. EIN: 82-2562731 We receive no federal, state, local, United Way or other support, and we depend on animal lovers and social justice champions like you to keep us going.
We are a volunteer-driven organization. 100%—One Hundred Percent—of your donation goes directly to the actual program costs of both A New Leash on Life and A New Start in Life. If you wish, you may specify to which program you want to contribute, or simply donate, knowing we will use it where it is most needed.
Please donate today.
Or consider sending us a gift with a check addressed to
PAW Alliance, 116 Lowes Food Dr., Ste 252, Lewisville, NC 27023.
You’ll receive a tax-deductible receipt.
Thank you!
