New Beginnings Non-profit

01/01/2017

Happy New Year! Though a few things have changed around here, our mission is the same. We focus on creating a better quality of life. This year we will be connecting with more shelters to promote adoptions as well as incorporate even more rescued animals into our therapy program. If you have any questions or know of someone who will benefit from our programs, please reach out to us.

01/01/2017

02/24/2015

Great news! President Obama has vetoed the Keystone Pipeline bill! http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-usa-keystone-idUSKBN0LS2FH20150224

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday swiftly delivered on his vow to veto a Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, leaving the long-debated project in limbo

06/27/2014

We know the easy changes to go plastic-free, reusable shopping bags, Tupperware, bring your own coffee mugs...but what about those not-so-easy changes?

Here are some easy switches for personal care products:
1) Use bar soap instead of liquid
2) Give up shampoo in plastic bottles! Using baking soda with water and apple cider vinegar, you will cut out plastic and still have squeaky clean locks!
3) Another great use for baking soda...deodorant! Just mix baking soda with a few drops of tea tree oil...this is better than any commercial deodorant and all natural!

Have more ideas for the plastic detox? Post here!

06/27/2014

Wake up with science!
Here is ferromagnetic fluid. "A ferrofluid is just a fluid with suspended particles of magnetic material (e.g. iron), coated with a surfactant so that the particles themselves cannot aggregate together." - scienceline

06/26/2014

Adopt! Don't shop!

Use our "Warning Signs When Dealing With a Breeder" to help you identify disreputable sources for purchasing pets. If the breeder you are considering exhibits even one of these traits EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION! You may be getting yourself into an expensive, heartbreaking problem.

06/05/2014

Less than a month to go now! Plastic Free July is almost here and we'll be posting tips and tricks to start the plastic detox! Head to http://www.plasticfreejuly.org/ to take the pledge!

Plastic Free July

05/23/2014

We are about to launch our merchandise, ALL proceeds go towards KO foundation's goals. I will have the link up shortly

05/16/2014

Take the pledge and encourage shelters in your area to do the same. Just one day in 2012 was the start of our own rescue shelter

Join me on Animal Wise Radio today 1:20 pm ET for a discussion about the upcoming release of my film Redemption: The No Kill Revolution in America, the No Kill is Love national tour that starts this June, and Just One Day 2014, what promises to be the safest day for animals in shelters. Listen live: www.animalarkshelter.org/AWRListen.html

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If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, then the path to No Kill begins with Just One Day. On June 11, 2013, my organization, the No Kill Advocacy Center, and our friends at Animal Ark asked shelters across the country to put down their needles and become No Kill for Just One Day.

For the public, for shelters which willingly participated, for all those new adopters and most of all, for the animals, June 11, 2013 was a good day, a happy day, an important day, and an unqualified success: perhaps the safest day for animals in shelters in U.S. history. Roughly 12,000 animals were adopted, 1,200 shelters and rescue groups came together, adopters welcomed a new family member, the incinerators remained shuttered and the morgues stayed empty. We erased more than one day's worth of killing in the U.S.

On June 11, 2014, we hope to do even better. And if they can do it on June 11, they can do it on June 12, June 13...

See photos of animals saved on JOD 2013: http://huff.to/1bA6wk0

Here's what you can do: www.justoneday.ws/

03/12/2014