Your Facebook ‘Like’ Can Fund Seeing Eye Dogs

Explore.org’s social media community Dog Bless You is running a Facebook campaign that converts “Likes” into donated seeing eye dogs.

For every 5,000 new Likes Dog Bless You receives during the month of March, it will donate the funding required to train and gift a guide dog for the blind, as part of the Angel Eyes campaign. Dog Bless You hopes to garner 300,000 new Likes, meaning it will fund the training of 60 seeing eye dogs through a partner guide dog organization.

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While this may sound like a lofty goal, Dog Bless You, a 1-year-old network, already has a fairly large community, with nearly 300,000 Likes to date.

“The hope is that the campaign will shine a light on the incredible bond between guide dogs and their owners, as well as create better awareness to help streamline the dog donation process and better serve the blind,” an Explore.org representative wrote Mashable.

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Previous Dog Bless You campaigns have paired service dogs with military veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, brought search and rescue dogs to Japan after the earthquake and supported dogs belonging to people who are homeless.

“[Dogs] improve the human experience in amazing ways,” Charlie Weingarten, founder and community curator of Dog Bless You says. “Seeing eye dogs are among the most dramatic examples of that.”

The Dog Bless You campaign hopes it can both connect more visually impaired Americans with seeing eye dogs and build a stronger network of supporters through this campaign, as centers that train guide dogs are sparse.

Do you think building a Facebook community is a worthy investment for Explore.org? Do you engage with animal loving communities on the social web? Let us know what you think in the comments.


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