Happy Mother’s Day to all of the awesome moms out there!
Kyle Field Day
Kyle Field Day is a free service event located inside the concourse of Kyle Field in which students, families and Bryan/College Station residents can participate in 50+ creative, interactive booths set up by various on and off campus organizations to benefit their respective causes.
Kyle Field Day is hosted by Memorial Student Center Freshmen in Service and Hosting (MSC FISH), a freshmen leadership organization at Texas A&M University. Our two K9s4KIDs K9s, K9 Tyson and K9 Jackie, at Texas A&M University were even able to stop by!
Our service project at Kyle Field Day was to paint a dog house and….
THUMB-thing special! U Paint-It! here in College Station was so generous to donate the ceramic dog bowls for us to “paint” at the event. Every person that came by the K9s4COPs booth left their thumbprint on a dog bowl. We had over 1,000 people stop by!
Want one of these awesome dog bowls or dog house for yourself?! Good news, they will be auctioned off at our gala on October 10th! Stay tuned for more details!!
The Brian Robison Reel ‘Em In Foundation Minnesota Tournament
June 15th-17th, 2018
Wabasha, Minnesotta
Please visit www.brianrobison96.com for more details! Tickets for the VIP dinner will be available to purchase soon.
All proceeds benefit K9s4COPs!
Hope to see you there!
Hard Dog, Fast Dog
K9s4COPs was honored to be back at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for our 6th annual Hard Dog, Fast Dog competition. Make sure you watch our highlight video, this event is AWESOME!
Videography: Jeb at Captiv Creative
Merry Christmas!
Mays Business School Supports K9s4COPs
As the semester comes to an end, the Strategic Philanthropy class at Mays Business School has been been busy deciding on how to distribute $62,500 in grant funding.
The students in the class evaluated 43 nonprofit applications from Bryan and College Station. K9s4COPs is so excited to announce we are one of the five nonprofits to receive funding. We are so grateful for the support from The Philanthropy Lab and a newfound partnership with the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation’s Community Grant Program, Texas A&M University, and Mays Business School. The $12,500 grant we received will go to purchase a K9 officer!
Cyber Monday is PAWsome!
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K9 Training at Schiller Ranch
This fall, we invited PSDK-9 out to Schiller Ranch to train some of our paw-some K9 officers and handlers. Below is a video of K9 Gibbs demonstrating obedience.
Reel ‘Em In Foundation Recap
Brian Robison Gives Back in a Unique Way!
Click the picture above or HERE to see an awesome video from the Reel ‘Em In Foundation tournament in Wabasha, MN. We are so thankful to have the support from Brian and Jayme Robison! K9s4COPs would not be what it is today without their overwhelming support!
Houstonian to be honored on ‘Steve Harvey’ show
Congrats to K9s4COPs’ founder Kristi Schiller, who is being honored as a “Harvey’s Hero” Thursday on the “Steve Harvey Show.” The talk show airs at 3 p.m. on KRIV, Fox 26.
In 2010 Schiller founded the nonprofit group that supplies crime-fighting dogs to police departments around the country.
“In Houston alone,” she tells Harvey, “our K9s have resulted in over 400 arrests and taken $3.5 million worth of cash and over 85 weapons off the streets. We had one dog, in one night, do a $23 million bust. Why would you not want that for your department?”
Tight law enforcement budgets are to blame, she knows. That’s why she decided to step in with private funds.
“At K9s4COPs,” she tells the TV audience, “we feel that your safety shouldn’t be hindered, your streets should not be less safe, because of a budget cut.”
To date, Schiller and her organization have given 89 trained dogs to law enforcement agencies in 19 states. Of the eight officers who appear on stage to thank Schiller for her work, one is Ted Dahlin, an investigator for Harris County Constable Precinct 4.
Schiller was inspired to start K9s4Cops when she learned that Dahlin’s police dog, Blek, was killed in the line of duty. Without her help, Dahlin would have had to raise $10,000 to $15,000 to buy a new police dog.
Source: http://www.chron.com/entertainment/tv/article/Houstonian-to-be-honored-on-Steve-Harvey-show-6217604.php