Major Gifts
Make a lasting investment in a more humane community.
Major gifts give SPCA Wake the flexibility to meet urgent needs, strengthen lifesaving work, and invest in opportunities that can expand our impact over time. Whether you’re considering a significant outright gift or want to support a specific area of our work, our team can help you explore options that align with your goals and the programs closest to your heart.
What is a major gift?
A major gift is a meaningful, significant charitable investment in SPCA Wake’s mission. It can help save more animal lives, strengthen the programs and resources pets and people rely on, and create lasting progress toward a more humane community.
Ways to Make a Major Gift
Outright Major Gifts
Make a significant one-time contribution that offers SPCA Wake the flexibility to put your generosity to work where it is needed most. Your unrestricted gift provides the resources to respond to urgent needs and help save more animals throughout our community.
Restricted or Designated Gifts
Direct your gift toward an area of SPCA Wake’s work that matters most to you – from expanding a lifesaving program close that's to your heart to strengthening the facilities, medical capabilities, and resources that help save more animals.
Naming Opportunities
For qualifying gifts, naming opportunities offer a meaningful way to leave a lasting legacy for animals while honoring a beloved pet, person, family, or organization through a special space on SPCA Wake’s campus.
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The Lasting Impact of a Major Gift
A major gift can create impact far beyond a single moment. Significant investments give SPCA Wake the flexibility to respond to urgent needs while also strengthening the programs, facilities, and services that animals and families rely on over time.
Major gifts can help fund lifesaving care today, expand access to community programs, improve the spaces and tools our teams use, and make ambitious projects possible. By investing at a transformational level, donors can help shape what SPCA Wake is able to accomplish for years to come.
What Can a Major Gift Support?
Lifesaving Care
Medical treatment, sheltering, and rehabilitation for animals in need.
Prevention & Pet Support
Spay/neuter, veterinary care, and programs that keep pets with their families so they never step foot in a shelter.
Facilities & Equipment
Investments in the facilities, technology, and infrastructure that make lifesaving work possible.
Community Programs
Expand services that reach pets and people and help keep families together throughout our community.
Long-Term Stability
Help build the financial strength and flexibility SPCA Wake needs to expand our lifesaving work and respond to evolving needs.
Strategic Priorities
Support high-impact needs and emerging opportunities that help SPCA Wake serve more animals and people.
Trusted Stewardship
Your investment deserves responsible stewardship. SPCA Wake is committed to financial accountability, transparency, and using donor support thoughtfully to advance our mission.
SPCA Wake has earned Charity Navigator’s 4-Star rating, its highest possible rating, and Candid’s Platinum Seal of Transparency, reflecting strong practices in accountability, transparency, and organizational stewardship.
Looking for Planned Giving?
If you’re interested in including SPCA Wake in your will, trust, retirement account, beneficiary designation, or other estate plans, visit our Planned Giving page for guidance, sample language, and additional resources.
Let's Talk About Your Goals.
Our experienced team can help you explore opportunities that align with your interests, values, and financial goals while identifying where your support can make the greatest impact.
Please contact:
Mondy Lamb
Vice President of Donor & External Relations
mlamb@spcawake.org
919-532-2086