Ask anyone you know to save them too--at work, school, or church. The recycler asks us to keep the cartridges in their original packaging or separated in plastic bags--scratched cartridges are unusuable, so please do your best to avoid that. Thanks!

We receive funds for the recycled items, as well as 15% of each cartridge purchased! You can mail the empties yourself (prepaid labels are available on the website), or drop them off at the locations below.

Elizabethton-Carter County Library, 201 N. Sycamore St., Elizabethton
Security Federal Bank (Carmella Price), 632 E. Elk Ave., Elizabethton
Wal-Mart, Elizabethton (Service Desk & Electronics Dept.)
Sun Belt Credit, 324 E. Elk Ave., Elizabethton (542-0448)
If you know a business that would allow us to put a small collection box (about 12" square) at their location, we will list them on the website. 

Fundraising: We can always use volunteers to help us raise money for our spay-neuter, pet food pantry, and veterinary clinic & care funds. There are lots of ways to help! Here are just a few: 

1. Sign up sponsors - whether it's a one-time donation or a monthly scheduled amount, we're looking for donors who would like to sponsor a specific animal or contribute to the general funds for specific items and other expenses such as insurance, maintenance, phone, internet, etc.!  
2. Locate in-kind donations - Services, items, GAS or gift cards, or contributions toward the following would be greatly appreciated:

• copying/printing services,
• office supplies, such as postage stamps, copy paper--white and colors--as well as laser toner cartridge Canon 104, large paper clips, pens, clipboards, display holders
• Gas cards, gas cards, gas cards! 
• Travel carriers- small, medium, or large
• Did I mention GAS CARDS?
• Items we can sell or raffle off--hand-made or not
• Purina or Pedigree pet foods
• Equipment and supplies for our low-income veterinary clinic 

3. Hold an event - Arrange and hold a yard sale, bake sale, craft sale, car wash, raffle, silent auction, Krispy Kreme donut sale, pet food drive, refreshment/snack stand, walkathon, or anything else you can think of! Every penny helps! (There's another one...a penny collection!) 

4. Set up an online storefront - If you're an internet whiz, we could use a volunteer to help us set up an online store for pet-related products. These are generally template driven sites, but they do require some basic internet skills, a high-speed internet connection, and the ability to drive traffic to the site and monitor the activity.

Grant researcher/writer: We desperately need some volunteers to help us find grant money to support our work. Anyone can help with this. Keep your eyes and ears open, and look for notices in the newspaper or online. For example, recently there have been articles in the paper about Rachel Ray's pet charity contest and NASCAR driver Greg Biffle's support of spay & neuter.

You can search online, at the library, or through a professional grant researcher. Keep in mind that many grants are very specific in what they will support. We are looking for funds for our spay-neuter assistance programs, and all of the expenses associated with running ETSN.  In the future, we may be looking to open a local low-cost clinic.

If you have experience at grant writing and would like to help us out, we'd be so grateful! Sometimes a grant application is as simple as filling out a form; other times, it's a long, detailed process that can take hours and hours of work to complete. Generally, the more money involved, the more information they want. Any help we can get will save even more animals!

Transport crowd control: Volunteer to help keep the pet owners organized at the bus on the morning of transport so that check-in goes smoothly. You'd need to be at the drop-off spot at 6:45am, and you'd be finished by 7:30am.

Transport check-in: You'd be responsible for checking pets onto the bus, verifying forms and payment, and helping to secure the crates in place for transport. The check-in volunteer also helps with unloading crates, and does check-in and payment at the clinic (with the help of a clinic staff person).

Transport Drivers: We could use volunteers for our spay-neuter runs --sometimes we use the Toyota van, but mostly we use the 24' purple bus. (No CDL required, but experience driving a large vehicle is.)  We also need drivers to do shuttle service from the Roan Mtn./Hampton areas--you'd pick up pets in the van and transfer them to the bus in Elizabethton. Drivers would also help secure crates for transport, and help unload at the clinic. (Staff at the clinic also helps, and handles all the large dogs.) Drivers of the "returning" leg would also help clean crates.

See The Events Page for More Voluteer Possibilities