{"id":4655,"date":"2019-10-16T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/napahumane.org\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:23:18","slug":"best-voicemail-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napahumane.org\/best-voicemail-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best. Voicemail. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/napahumane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cropped-to-850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/napahumane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cropped-to-850.jpg 850w, https:\/\/napahumane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cropped-to-850-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/napahumane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cropped-to-850-768x192.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From Napa Humane\u2019s Executive Director Wendi Piscia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked into work one morning and saw an unexpected voicemail blinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI wanted to let you\nknow that the Board and I are very lucky to have received bequest money from\nSusan Wren, and a portion of it is to be distributed to our partners in animal\nwelfare. . . . You should be receiving the check in a few days.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I froze. Was this my\nsurprise bequest dream again (a recurring favorite among non-profit Executive\nDirectors)? Or was <a href=\"https:\/\/wecareanimalrescue.org\/\">We Care Animal Rescue<\/a> actually sending us a check, thanks to Susan\nWren\u2019s generous estate planning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, my friends, I\u2019m\nhappy to tell you: this time it wasn\u2019t a dream. Melissa from We Care really did\ncall me this summer, and really did award us an unrestricted grant from Susan\nWren\u2019s estate \u2013 letting us apply the funds to our greatest needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/napavalleyregister.com\/community\/star\/news\/local\/st-helena-animal-advocate-susan-wren-dies-at-age\/article_4bd801c6-146b-5278-aedc-146e6b3d48f4.html\">Susan <\/a>was a lifelong volunteer and amazing advocate\nfor Napa County\u2019s neediest animals, so it\u2019s not too surprising that she also\narranged to continue her support after her death. For most of her 25 years\nliving in Napa, she volunteered and served as president for Saint Helena\u2019s We\nCare Animal Rescue. She called it her \u201cfull-time passion\u201d and dedicated\ncountless hours to the animals lucky enough to pass through their doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce you go on a board\nor become a volunteer, it\u2019s a commitment,\u201d Susan once said. \u201cBut when you\u2019re\ndealing with little lives, you don\u2019t walk away from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan may no longer be\nhere sharing her time and energy helping animals in need, but her legacy lives\non. The grant money we received through her estate will enable Napa Humane to\nperform 100 spay\/neuter surgeries for local animals, saving thousands of little\nlives from needless suffering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are so grateful to\nSusan and to We Care for their support, and in awe of the generosity and\nforesight that enabled these grants to be shared with our animal welfare\ncommunity this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to explore setting up a bequest of any size, please contact me. I would be honored to meet and discuss the legacy you\u2019d like to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Wendi Piscia, Executive Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/napahumane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/i-34PPDWV-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3108\" width=\"137\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/napahumane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/i-34PPDWV-XL.jpg 548w, https:\/\/napahumane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/i-34PPDWV-XL-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 85vw, 137px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Napa Humane\u2019s Executive Director Wendi Piscia I walked into work one morning and saw an unexpected voicemail blinking.&nbsp; \u201cI wanted to let you know that the Board and I are very lucky to have received bequest money from Susan Wren, and a portion of it is to be distributed to our partners in animal<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/napahumane.org\/best-voicemail-ever\/\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[102,37,103,23,20,101,19],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-volunteer","tag-bequest","tag-community-support","tag-grant","tag-napa-humane","tag-philanthropy","tag-planned-giving","tag-volunteer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best. 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