{"id":12637,"date":"2020-01-15T02:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2020-01-15T02:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:34:41","slug":"mountain-humane-has-new-leader-of-the-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/15\/mountain-humane-has-new-leader-of-the-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Humane Has New Leader Of The Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annie McCauley Promoted From Development Director To Executive Director<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Eric Valentine<\/em><\/p>\n

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Annie and Brian McCauley and their rescue dog Eddie have made their family vacation destination their home. Photo credit: Mountain Humane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Valley\u2019s world-class animal shelter may be nearly 40 years old, but its new leader, who has been taking family vacations here just as long, views it as a startup.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reinvented ourselves when we moved into the new building and we\u2019re still in our startup phase,\u201d said newly appointed executive director Annie McCauley. \u201cWe\u2019re still learning how to live in our building, how to align our budgets to the new facility; we learn every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the past two months the Mountain Humane board of directors has worked with the staff to restructure and streamline the operations of the no-kill shelter. Longtime executive director and medical director, Jo-Anne Dixon, stepped down from her position. And the organization\u2019s development director, Brooke Bonner, took a position with another organization out of state. That put McCauley in the right position at the right time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always gone where I was needed,\u201d McCauley said of her career working as an executive director for several other nonprofits.<\/p>\n

Most recently, McCauley headed up a St. Louis-based nursing home establishment. Prior to that, she ran a girls summer camp program in Maine, and in Boston she directed an historical museum.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe principals for running a healthy nonprofit are the same regardless of the services you\u2019re providing. I\u2019ve gone from seniors to kids to cats and dogs,\u201d McCauley said.<\/p>\n

Annie and and her husband Brian recently moved to Hailey, after vacationing here for nearly 40 years. Annie and Brian have two grown daughters and a new rescue puppy named Eddie.<\/p>\n

Replacing Dixon means that Mountain Humane also had to replace its medical director, not just its executive director.<\/p>\n

The organization said its current veterinarian, Dr. Jack Amen, and its director of animal care operations, Katie Millonzi, would take the reins there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a management team who have over 30 years of experience serving the mission of Mountain Humane; Nadia Novik, Kelly Mitchell and Bekka Mongeau oversee our outreach, programming and marketing as well as being involved with the care and adoption of our animals,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n

Mountain Humane\u2019s mission is to connect pets and people. The no-kill shelter houses and cares for stray and unwanted pets while providing necessary medical care, finding loving homes for over 800 animals a year, and offering services and support to animal lovers across the Valley. Through our no-cost spay\/neuter clinic, behavior and training resources, and our dedicated outreach programs, we help pets and people in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur new facility is changing the stereotype that shelters are sad places to visit; Mountain Humane is a joyful community hub for all ages. In partnership with other animal welfare organizations across the country, we are creating a more humane world,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annie McCauley Promoted From Development Director To Executive Director By Eric Valentine The Valley\u2019s world-class animal shelter may be nearly 40 years old, but its new leader, who has been taking family vacations here just as long, views it as a startup. \u201cWe reinvented ourselves when we moved into the new building and we\u2019re still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-nonprofit","9":"category-top-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}