For seven years, you've helped me, Jenni D and my team, save dogs.

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Today, I'm looking for 100 people who want to help me build something bigger.

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For seven years, you've followed this journey and watched me walk into shelters, load dogs into vans, celebrate adoptions, cry over losses, and somehow keep moving forward no matter what obstacle showed up next.

You've seen the rescue rides, the emergency pulls, the heartbreaks and tears, the victories, and the dogs that changed all of our lives, but you've also seen the reality behind rescue, and the reality is that it doesn't work the way people think it does.

 

Rescue survives on urgency and emotion. A husky runs out of time, a shelter fills up, a medical emergency happens, and someone tells the story hoping enough people will rally together before it's too late. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but either way another dog needs help tomorrow and another one the day after that.

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I've spent years proving that I can raise money in a crisis and that people care enough to show up when a dog needs them. What I haven't been able to solve is the bigger problem, and that's sustainability.

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The truth is that rescue is exhausting because it never stops. There is always another dog, another emergency, another fundraiser, another impossible decision. I've watched incredible rescuers burn out and even commit suicide, organizations close their doors, good rescuers turn into desperate bad rescuers, and good people walk away because they simply couldn't carry the weight anymore.

 

The longer I've done this, the more I've realized that if rescue is going to survive long-term, it has to become more than a series of emergencies connected by fundraisers.

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That's why Pitsky Park exists.

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It was never really about building a BMX track, cabins, a coffee shop, or any of the other things you've watched take shape over the years. Those are simply the tools. The goal has always been to create something that generates revenue consistently enough to support rescue without depending entirely on the next heartbreaking story to keep the lights on. I don't want the future of rescue to depend on whether I can tell a story well enough, post enough videos, or convince enough people to care before time runs out for the next husky.

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I know what I'm capable of when I have the resources to say yes. You know what I'm capable of because you've watched me do it for seven years. What I need now is a system that allows me to keep doing that work more efficiently and more sustainably than I can today.

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I find myself standing at a crossroads. I can continue down the path I'm on, sell the highway house and land and lose the dream of the community center, rescue one dog at a time, focus heavily on spay and neuter efforts, and slowly scale things back into something that one person can reasonably manage.

Or I can build the infrastructure and revenue sources that allow Husky Halfway House to become something bigger than the constant cycle of fundraising and emergencies. Not bigger for the sake of growth, but bigger because more dogs get to live.

 

The Founding 100 is my attempt to find out if there are 100 people who believe in my vision enough to help me build it. Not because they're investing in a business plan, and not because they're expecting anything in return beyond the Founder benefits. I'm looking for the people who have watched this journey unfold and believe that the work is worth continuing.

People who understand that you have to spend money to make money.

People who understand that what we're really building isn't a coffee shop or a campground.

We're building the foundation beneath a more sustainable future for rescue.

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At the end of the day, this isn't about whether I can raise $250,000. It's about whether there are 100 people who believe that rescue can be done better than this.

 

Whether there are 100 people who want to help me keep doing what I've dedicated my life to without the constant chaos that comes with trying to save dogs inside a system that was never designed to be sustainable in the first place.

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Because if we can build that foundation, I truly believe the number of dogs we can save over the next twenty years will be measured in the thousands, not the hundreds.

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Will you help me? ~ Jenni D