Teaching
kindness by
example
American Humane
Association needs
your help to create
kind and caring
communities
BY ROBIN GANZERT
W
Dr. Robin R.
Ganzert is
president and
CEO of American
Humane
Association
ith grandchildren always on our
minds—and our beloved pets
at our ankles—grandparents
are the front line of defense
for America’s most vulnerable.
Fully 6 million grandparents are
raising their grandchildren to
be concerned citizens who care
about making a more humane
and compassionate world.
We at American Humane
Association have cared about
that since our founding in
1877, when our signal efforts
to stop child workhouses and
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Early 20th c. AHA photo for
“Be Kind to Animals Week”
abuse were just the start of our
work that has driven most major
legislative efforts for improving
the lives of children. Today,
our Front Porch Project®
works
nationally to do what generations
of grandparents have long done
in their communities: notice the
children in the neighborhood and
step up to respond to signs of
child neglect or abuse.
We also focus on acts of kind-
ness involving animals. We provide
Animal Assisted Therapy
programs to help kids in cancer
wards, and have just launched
the American Humane Association
Hero Dog Awards™ (herodogawards.com),
a national search to
http://www.americanhumane.org/children/programs/child-abuse-neglect-prevention/the-front-porch-project/front-porch-project-moments.htmlhttp://www.herodogawards.org/http://www.herodogawards.org/
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of GRAND Magazine - July/August 2011