08/30/2026
🚨 PARROT OUTREACH NEEDS OUR COMMUNITY — AND WE NEED YOU NOW. 🚨
Add: we currently have about 7k sq feet. We think we could make 4-5k sq feet work. We would like to stay in Charlotte county but lee county is an option. We are licensed currently through fwc in Charlotte county.
This is not an easy post for us to make, but we have reached a point where we need to ask our community for help.
Our lease is up for renewal in October.
If we re-sign, our base rent will increase to $7,920 per month — nearly $8,000 every single month before electricity, insurance, food, veterinary care, cleaning supplies, cages, toys, enrichment, and all of the other expenses that come with operating a parrot rescue.
But there is an even bigger concern.
Re-signing means locking Parrot Outreach into another THREE-YEAR lease, with our rent increasing an additional 7% every year.
That is a financial commitment we simply cannot responsibly make.
Everything has gone up. Food prices have climbed dramatically. Cages and supplies cost more. Veterinary expenses continue to rise. Every dollar that goes toward an increasingly unaffordable rent payment is a dollar that cannot go toward the birds who depend on us.
And the birds don't stop needing help because expenses went up.
They still come through our doors sick, injured, frightened, neglected, or grieving the loss of the only family they have ever known. Some have outlived their owners. Some have been abandoned. Some come from families facing circumstances they never expected.
And whenever possible, we have always found a way to say:
“Yes. We will help.”
Now, we are asking our community to say YES to us.
🦜 WE DESPERATELY NEED TO FIND A NEW COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR PARROT OUTREACH SOCIETY.
Do you own a commercial building or property that you would be willing to rent to our nonprofit at an affordable rate?
Do you know someone who does?
Do you know a property owner, developer, business owner, realtor, investor, church, organization, or community member who might have a space available and would be willing to give a nonprofit rescue a chance?
Please connect us.
We aren't looking for anything fancy. We are looking for a safe, functional and affordable place where we can continue doing what we have done for years — rescuing, rehabilitating, caring for, and finding homes for parrots who need us.
Parrot Outreach does so much for this community. We take in birds when families have nowhere else to turn. We provide education and support. We rehabilitate birds others have given up on. We help families keep their birds when possible, and when that isn't possible, we make sure those birds have somewhere safe to go.
But right now, the future of our rescue depends on finding an affordable place to call home.
October is coming quickly.
Signing another three-year lease at these rates, knowing the rent will continue increasing 7% every year, isn't the answer. We need to find a sustainable home that allows us to put our resources where they belong — into the animals and the community we serve.
And we cannot do this alone.
Even if you don't own a building, YOU CAN HELP.
Please share this post. Tag commercial property owners. Tag realtors. Send it to local businesses, churches, organizations, developers and anyone who might know someone with available space.
Sometimes the person who can change everything is only one share away.
For years, Parrot Outreach has been there when a bird needed somewhere to go and when a family needed somewhere to turn.
Today, Parrot Outreach needs somewhere to go.
We are asking the community we have served for so many years to please help us find our next home.
🦜❤️ Our birds are counting on us. And right now, we're counting on you.
PLEASE SHARE.
