Today at Big Cat Rescue Aug 18 2013

Annual Report 2012

Big Cat Rescue had 93 volunteers at the end of 2012 who clocked in 37,715 man-power hours in addition to staff, 25 interns (12,700 hours) and 5,658 Volunteer Committee member hours. Volunteers provided roughly the equivalent workforce of 24 more full time staff.

http://bigcatrescue.org/2012-annual-report/

Annual Report 2011

Big Cat Rescue had 96 volunteers at the end of 2011 who clocked in 37,556 man-power hours in addition to staff, 25 interns (12,700 hours) and Volunteer Committee member hours. Our interns came from 9 states and 6 countries. Volunteers provided roughly the equivalent workforce of 24 more full time staff.

http://bigcatrescue.org/2011-annual-report/

Annual Report 2010

Big Cat Rescue had 107 volunteers in 2010 who clocked in 56,411 man-power hours in addition to staff, 31 interns and Volunteer Committee member hours. Our interns came from 10 states and 8 countries.  Volunteers provided roughly the equivalent workforce of 30 more full time staff.

http://bigcatrescue.org/2010-annual-report/

Throughout this time we have had 10 full time staff who only do administrative work.  Plenty of people will volunteer to do the cat related work, so NONE of that is paid.

The decrease in hours clocked in 2011 and 2012 from 2010 appears to be due to the switch over from the honor system to an actual time clock that volunteers must punch in and out.  We now use Volgistics because there is no way to cheat the system and it gives us more accurate information about who is putting in the hours necessary for their level of privilege.