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Volume 20 • Issue 7 • JULY 2025
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SHELTER PHOTO: PJ WALTER PHOTOGRAPHY. LYMAN POPE JR. & MAX – PHOTO CREDIT: PETER RALSTON
Lyman Pope: Twenty-Five+ Years of Donating to Nonprofits
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yman Pope is a devoted animal lover who has donated generously to countless animal nonprofits over
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his life. He understands that shelters’ staffers and volunteers work tirelessly to fundraise so they can properly vet, care for, pay overhead costs, and then rehome their animals. So, in 2000 he made his efforts official--he founded the Lyman Pope Jr. Foundation to grant nonprofits monies. When asked why he started the
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foundation, he humbly brushed it off adding it’s a long story. The short story is that he’s an animal lover and wants what’s best for them. Pope said the foundation ran out of funds a long time ago, but he continued donating as needed with his own
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