Hi Taxpayer. By now, you know about the Bethesda Boys:
- Two beagles were just bought by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) lab in Bethesda.
- These blood poisoning tests are very painful.
- The dogs will be entombed in a refrigerator.
You also know about the White Coat Waste Project (WCW):
You Give. We Win. They Survive.
Now, I hope you’ll give me two minutes to convince you why that’s far more than just a tagline. It’s our promise.
Step 1: You Give.
Email fundraising is effective. We’ve found that email appeals—especially during all-hands-on-deck emergencies like the Bethesda Boys rapid response campaign—are the quickest way to raise the money required to shut down labs.
Over 70% of our work is funded by grassroots donors who give to fundraising appeals like this:
Here’s the actual email appeal we sent on March 22, 2017. That’s when our investigators first needed your help to EXPOSE the Dept. of Veterans Affairs' (VA) dog lab in Richmond.
And this:
Here’s the actual email appeal I sent you five years ago. That’s when we launched a rapid response campaign at the VA and needed your help to CLOSE its Richmond dog lab.
Our average donation from these emails?
About $20.
Step 2: We Win.
But Taxpayer, your $20 goes a long way.
You see, the moment you give to these emails, we’re able to finance our investigative research, media, advertising, litigation, and lobbying.
It’s how we pay for our winning campaigns.
Case in point: after you and WCW’s grassroots army donated to my email fundraisers, this happened:
This is ABC News’ headline from November 2, 2022. I love winning! It's why we send so many emails.
Six-month-old puppies. Latex injected into their arteries. Tethered to a treadmill. Forced to run in heart attack tests.
No anesthesia. No pain relief.
The Richmond lab at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs was the most painful dog experimentation laboratory in the entire federal government…
and it was SHUT DOWN by our rapid response email campaign!
WCW is proud to be the only group to successfully close federal dog labs in nearly 20 years. No other organization has closed any at all.
Bottom line: WCW = White Coat WINS.
But ONLY when you chip-in to our emails.
Step 3: They Survive.
Of course, winning is a means to an end: saving dogs, puppies, and other animals abused in our government’s labs—the P.O.W.s or Prisoners of Waste!
Here’s the actual email appeal I sent on March 30, 2018, when I needed your help to RELEASE the VA survivors.
As you can see here, the VA planned to stick a needle in these hounds, kill them, and incinerate them…like garbage.
So, I wrote an urgent email appeal. You stepped up.
Then, this happened:
This is ABC News from August 30, 2021. You gave. Then, we made the VA RETIRE survivors like Garnet.
Taxpayer, meet Garnet. She was once known as hound #210332 at the VA’s treadmill and heart attack lab in Richmond.
Here’s the VA’s actual receipt for Garnet:
As you can see, she was purchased from the very same puppy mill as the Bethesda Boys:
But because YOU gave money to our rapid response email fundraiser, WCW rescued Garnet and the P.O.W.s. and got them into loving homes… where they belong:
You Give. We Win. They Survive.
Taxpayer, as you can see, this isn’t a mere tagline. It’s not just a bumper sticker slogan. And it’s not meaningless marketing.
It’s our PROMISE!
Let’s do it again for the Bethesda Boys. Here’s your secure link: https://whitecoatwaste.org/BethesdaBoys
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Mackie Burr Vice President |
P.S. Taxpayer, I really want to save the Bethesda Boys. Heck, I’d even adopt them myself! That’s why I recently sent you my emergency plan to give the NIH the WCW treatment. WCW is the only group fighting to save the Bethesda Boys and the only group that’s successfully shut down U.S. government dog labs in nearly a generation.
But right now, our fundraising is also way down. If you don’t give, then we don’t win. And if we don’t win… well, the deadline is TOMORROW. Please send help!
