AKC/CHF BMDCA Donor Advised Fund - tax deductible donations can be sent to this fund. The CHF reviews
scientific health related studies through a rigorous evaluation process. Studies it approves which
might be of value to BMD's are reviewed by the BMDCA health committee. The Health Committee recommends
some of these studies to the BMDCA board which ultimately decides which studies the funds in the AKC
CHF BMDCA Donor Advised Fund will be used to support. Make your check payable to CHF, but on the
memo line mark it for the BMDCA Donor Advised Fund. See http://www.akcchf.org
BARC - Berner Auction Rescue Coalition - tax deductible donations can be sent to help cover the cost
of rescuing Berners who are being auctioned or sold in situations where they could wind up in puppy
mills. See http://www.barcinc.net
BEHAF - Berner Emergency Health Assistance Fund - donations can be sent to help cover unexpected
emergency costs for Berner owners, or to a specific fund set up for a BEHAF Special Friend. See
http://www.behaf.org
Berner-Garde - tax deductible donations can be sent to the foundation that was established to help
reduce genetic disease in the BMD. Berner-Garde maintains a database of disease incidence. See
http://www.bernergarde.org
Berner-L Brag Fund - donations can be sent to any specific fund, or payable to Pat Long (and those
will be used to fund Health efforts, currently by being sent to the AKC/CHF BMDCA donor advised fund,
or to any other fund of your choice). This is a voluntary donation; all brags are enjoyed on the
Berner-L whether you wish to donate or not!!
BLEF - Berner-L Education Fund - send a check payable to Pat Long or to Lesley Rouillier to help
finance educational efforts. Baseball cards and copies of a Poster based on the Dog World ad are
available to help finance this fund, as well as some other posters for display at dog events. Contact
Pat Long, berner1@concentric.net for details.
BMDCA Health Fund - donations can be sent to be used for funding health studies. (Donations are not
tax deductible at this time.) Make your donation to the BMDCA Health Fund and send it to the BMDCA
treasurer. Contact contact@bmdca.org for information.
BMDCA Rescue Fund - donations can be sent to be used for assisting any BMDCA approved rescue in need
of assistance. Clip art sales for the 1999 and 2001 disks will be funding this. (Donations are not
tax deductible at this time.) Contact Pat Long, pat@bmdinfo.com for clip art, or make your donation
to the BMDCA Rescue and send it to the BMDCA treasurer. Also consider donations to your regional club
rescue fund, they are the ones that do the bulk of the work. Donate time, money, crates, blankets,
leashes – they can always use it! Want to foster for the dogs? Volunteer! Want to adopt a rescue? Let
them know! See www.berner.org for regional and international club information.
Current Joye Neff Fundraiser (JNF) - She always has something fun going on, so make sure that
whatever fund you want to donate to isn't the subject of a current JNF, and participate and have a
chance to win some important Berner Stuff for your collection! OR donate Stuff to Joye for the next
fundraiser to make room for new Stuff! Current Fundraiser: http://www.overthefence.com/raffle/BARC/
Light One Candle was established to allow people to donate money to fund lobbying and educational
efforts. For details see: http://141.211.110.76/Candle/lightonecandle.jpg
Jim Johnson has his real estate license in Colorado. If someone from the "L", a local club, etc.
refers him to a client and he closes a deal, he will donate 25% of the commision back to the BMD
cause of their choice and an additional 25% to a BMD cause of his choice, so a total of 50% of his
total commission will go to BMD charities. Contact Jim at jejohnson7@yahoo.com
Patt Wiegand is offering her collar covers to benefit BARC. Please visit the Canterbury Tails web
site at: www.canterbury-tails.com
Pippa loves Berners, and she loves making things of all kinds. With this in mind, Pippa will donate
2.5% of her proceeds from the sale of her hand-crafted items. Another 2.5% will go to BEHAF. Contact
Pippa at: pippa_s@yahoo.com
Ray Burgett will donate his total commission from any "new customer" orders from his Flint River
Ranch Premium Pet Food order page to BARC. Ray estimates that will work out to 15 3/4 % of the total
sales. Ray tells us this can only apply to new customers of FRR, so if you are thinking about feeding
Flint River Ranch or are ready to make the switch, visit Ray's web site at
http://www.goodbernerfood.com/order.html to benefit the rescue effort and your dog.
Pat Burgett will donate $15.00 from each of her original State Plaques ordered via her Art Studio web
page: http://users.eoni.com/~eaglecap/pats_studio.htm They have the State Flower, Tree, Bird, Flag
and a head study of the purchaser's Berner. We all know that Pat does beautiful work, and now she is
helping to save auctioned Berners destined for puppy mills with her art.
You can shop at iGive.com A percentage of every dollar paid by registered BARC shoppers comes to
BARC. iGive.com gives you access to some great stores and services! When you visit, be sure to
register your wish that your proceeds go to BARC, Inc. It's that simple!
BARC, Inc. is now a dogstuff.com affliate. If you enter the dogstuff site by clicking on the icon at
the BARC Website at: http://www.barcinc.net/Vendors.html BARC will earn up to 5% of profits from
sales of merchandise from dogstuff.com
Any items that you purchase from Amazon.com will result in money being donated to the BMDCA Health
Fund if you enter Amazon.com through Wendy Beard's Boris Books at:
http://members.rogers.com/bernerboris/bernerbooks.html Wendy Beard's Berner, Boris, has dedicated
his free time to reading these books and has great pleasure in recommending books to you. In order
to make your choice a little easier he has included comments from some of the berner-l members. Even
he, as a humble dog, knows that your pockets aren't bottomless. However, should you decide that you
must have some of these books for your own personal library then follow the links provided on the
website and you will help Bernese Mountain Dogs far and wide, as any commission earned on the sale
of these books through this web site will go to The BMDCA Health Fund.
