Groton Animals Benefit from Generous Legacy

June 10, 2009. Josephine Sacco's bequest to the Community Foundation for the care of Groton animals made it possible for the Foundation to award its second annual round of People for Animals & Wildlife (P.A.W.) grants.

A total of $10,000 from the Josephine and Gabriel Sacco Fund for Animals will help three local nonprofit organizations provide food, shelter and preventative and emergency veterinary care for as many as 130 homeless or abandoned animals on the road to adoption. Some of the funds will be used to assist lower income residents with emergency care for their pets.

Learn more about the P.A.W. Fund

"The economic climate is putting more stress on families. We know that not only is it more humane to prevent animals from being given up or abandoned due to financial pressures but it is also less costly to the municipal budgets, the taxpayers and animal welfare nonprofits to keep pets with their owners."

-Ellen McGuire
Community Foundation Trustee