Dogs Deserve Better competes with leading national nonprofits for honor

Tipton, PA — September 14, 2007 — Dogs Deserve Better, a national nonprofit working to end the suffering endured by dogs kept chained or penned for life, announced today that the group has been selected as a finalist in the category of Best Community Building/ Volunteerism and/or Activism Campaign for the 2007 International ePhilanthropy Awards. The nomination and selection as finalist comes for their Chain Off 2007 Online Campaign during with 108 people in 36 states lived chained to doghouses for 8-34 hours.

Tammy Grimes, founder of the organization, states "We’re deeply honored, especially since we’re up against some major players for this award—organizations with some extended history and successes behind them. To be competing with names such as The Humane Society of the Unites States, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Oxfam America, and the American Cancer Society is both staggering and exciting for us.

At the age of 5, we’re babies compared to these other organizations...but we’re young, smart, and we work very, very hard for our issue. And we don’t give up!"

Grimes will travel to New York City Thursday, September 20th for an awards ceremony to be held at The Harvard Club of New York City.

Chain Off 2007 was exclusively run via the internet, at a grassroots level, and brought in 108 people in 36 states, as well as over 200 media hits nationwide, plus donations for their work via an online sponsor contest for the activists.

The group is seeking votes for the ePhilanthropy People's Choice Award which runs through September 17th.

To vote for Dogs Deserve Better, visit the link at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PP4kdNNW1e2zspu_2bIw3pJQ_3d_3d

Dogs Deserve Better (www.dogsdeservebetter.org) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization headquartered in Tipton, Pennsylvania, is the 2003 First Place Winner of the ASPCA Pet Protector Award, and currently has over 150 area reps in 38 states as well as in Canada and France.