2023 Highlights for Animals & People
The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund is dedicated to making the world a better place for animals, while emphasizing programs that also benefit people. This holiday season, will you add your name to the list of 2023 supporters below? I’m proud to share these highlights from programs to which the Greg Fund contributed this year: Helping Ukraine…
Read MoreWhy I Divested From Tractor Supply Co.
Cover photo by We Animals Media This week, I divested from Tractor Supply Company — donating all personal stock in that U.S. retail chain to my Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, where the stock has been sold for cash to support animal protection. For the last five years, I…
Read MoreThank you, farmed animal sanctuaries!
Photo above: Chauncey at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, Poolesville, Maryland, November 2023 — a Royal Palm turkey, exact origin unknown, who was found Christmas Day 2020 on a Baltimore street. This U.S. Thanksgiving, I take a moment to express special gratitude to farm sanctuaries that are providing lifelong refuge for turkeys, chickens, pigs, cows, sheep,…
Read MoreAnimal Rescue Kharkiv Provides Refuge for Cats & People
This June, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals presented the 2023 8th annual Gregory J. Reiter Animal Rescue Award to its Ukraine partner organization Animal Rescue Kharkiv (ARK). ARK has continued to work against incredible odds to rescue animals from active war zones, with ongoing support from PETA Deutschland and PETA’s Global Compassion Fund…
Read MoreEight Years On
My husband Gregory James Reiter died eight years ago today, October 16, 2015, after 24 years together – rolled over by his own car, in an apparent accident that authorities could not or would not explain. Greg had believed that everything happens for a reason – and for many years, I sought to reconcile his…
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