Like many non-profit groups these days, animal shelters are getting hit hard with lower than usual donations. One place I’ve heard about recently which is in need of some help is a no-kill dog (and sometimes cat) shelter run by Bernie Berlin in Tennessee called “A Place to Bark.” The shelter is in the middle of its annual fund raiser, called “10 to Life.” The idea is that if one person just gave ten bucks, and then asked ten friends to give ten bucks, and so on, these small donations would add up to the shelter’s goal of $100,000.

So, I have sent in my $10 (and a little more) and thus I am asking my readers to do the same and pass on the idea via social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Along with monetary donations, which can be sent in via a PayPal icon on the shelter’s blog, you’ll also find a list of needed items such as towels, blankets, toys, and so on. Yes, blankets my fellow crafters! Do you sew, knit, or crochet? How about using your scraps to zip up a few little doggie blankets to send to A Place to Bark?

If you have followed Bernie on Twitter or Facebook, then you know that this woman (who donates all her time and a good chunk of her own money) is incredibly devoted to this cause. So after passing on your ten buck donation, make sure to pass on this information to your friends and family. You can read the details of the fund raiser, see pictures and videos of the shelter and its residents, plus see the stats of the number of lives it has saved at A Place to Bark’s weblog.