Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw

Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw SAFPAW believes in knocking down poverty obstacles that exist for those we serve and their pets.

The Southern Alliance for People and Animal Welfare (SAFPAW) is a local non-profit serving Davidson County by working to improve the quality of life in our community for people and pets in need. SAFPAW provides pet food, supplies, and veterinary care free of charge pet owners who are homeless, or living at or below the poverty level. Our weekly Spay/Neuter Transport picks up every Thursday morning and brings each pet back that same evening. Animals are spayed or neutered, fully vaccinated, dewormed, treated for fleas & ticks and nails trimmed. In addition our weekly transport helps with basic wellness pet needs. Our homeless outreach program provides food, camping supplies, and other basic needs to those we serve. We also assist those looking to secure more permanent housing by helping with transportation, acquiring necessary IDs (such as social security card, state ID or drivers license, birth certificate, etc.), working through the application process, and everything in-between, including move-in day! SAFPAW is able to make a tremendous positive impact in the lives of people and pets throughout Davidson County, but only with the help of our generous and compassionate community. Swing by our page at Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - SAFPAW and "Like" us to stay up to date on all of the amazing work being done every day. And don't forget to come check out our website too (www.safpaw.org) and consider making a donation so that we can all continue to build our community better and stronger every day!

11/09/2025

I will be at Madtown Coffee Shop in Madison this coming Wednesday (11/12) at 9am if anyone has clean blankets they can donate. Gently used if just fine but please, only if they are in good condition.

I will be in a meeting but please feel free to drop off. If you would like to grab coffee and talk awhile let me know and we can plan that!

Please, no comforters or blankets needing to be washed.

You can text our resource line and let me know, 615-474-8390.

Please note…this will be an ongoing need during the dangerously cold weather so text us if you have items to donate.

2 or 4 person tents
Sleeping bags
Tarps
Camping (Buddy) heaters
16 oz cannisters of propane
Blankets
Long johns, sizes med & large
Stocking caps & gloves
Hand warmers

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
safpawnashville@gmail.com

How it started and how it’s going. And for Zeus, his story really just started. But his future does look bright. Like al...
11/09/2025

How it started and how it’s going. And for Zeus, his story really just started. But his future does look bright. Like all rescues, there is never a straight line.

SAFPAW had Zeus fixed and vaccinated on one of our Spay/Neuter Transports. That was how I met Zeus. Later his family called me, he was just too much and he was not an apartment dog. Ahh but rescues are under water with all the need. But my friend Jessica and her son Nathan kept a watch out for Zeus as he roamed after he became “unhoused”.

Upon my second encounter with Zeus I fell hopelessly in love. I would have brought him home with me but KJ does, wisely, keep me on a short leash or else our home would have hundreds. I grumble but she is right. There, I said it.

But in a most Nashville way a home presented itself. It has to do with my friend Kim Newbould and my friend Melanie Cochran. And it was a complicated and sad road that presented a possible home for Zeus. It involved me asking for a consideration at a time that really wasn’t a good time but it was a time and I took it for Zeus.

And this complicated story has given Zeus a new home with Melanie and John and their amazing sons. And sweet, bossy Charlotte. Good Lord I do love her dearly. Now she is the lead dog and Zeus is so okay with that. All males are at their best when they realize females rule.

So the story of Zeus has brought us to East Nashville and a home that is now at 4 humans and 2 dogs. And I drove home so happy today.

Oh and I have to tell you one last thing…when Zeus ventured out on the backyard deck and looked out my heart just was so happy. His expression was everything I ever wanted for every dog. Everything.

Some days are just meant to be good days.

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
safpawnashville@gmail.com

11/04/2025

Join SAFPAW as we make sure our neighbors have the food that keeps their bodies and spirits whole.

And that always includes their pets!

Laurie Green
safpawnashville@gmail.com
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
Lori Eslick
safpawmeals@gmail.com

615-474-8390

11/04/2025

My favorite time of the year is when we are gifted with song by artist Tim Easton. He does this purely out of love and we are so thankful to him. And for him.

Please buy music from independent artists like Tim, honestly their music is definitely from the heart and hard earned.

11/03/2025

We need suggestions on the best place to hold a Food Drive! So let me know your thoughts. Our Meals Program will be 6 years old in March of 2026 and I think that calls for a celebration!

And we aren’t waiting either. We want a Food Drive that is just over the top!

So bring on your ideas and thoughts!

Laurie Green
Lori Eslick
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
615-474-8390

11/02/2025

SAFPAW needs the following to keep our unhoused neighbors safe:
1. Blankets
2. Tarps
3. Sleeping bags
4. Two or four person tents
5. Buddy heaters
6. 16 ounce canisters of propane

We definitely need either financial donations or actual item donations if we are to keep the people we serve safe from the coming winter temps.

Please text us on our resource line and we can arrange drop off or pick up.

Our QR codes for easy donating are in the comments below.

And thank you. We can put our feet on the ground to serve but without your support our work stops.

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw

615-474-8390

SAFPAW
P. O. Box 23535
Nashville, TN 37202

URGENT NEED!Our SAFPAW Lunch Meal Delivery day is this coming Saturday. November 1st. And regardless of how long this ad...
10/29/2025

URGENT NEED!

Our SAFPAW Lunch Meal Delivery day is this coming Saturday. November 1st. And regardless of how long this administration refuses to fund our SNAP program we will be putting our feet on the ground to deliver meals for as many Saturdays as we have funding for.

We need you to keep this program on the road. We need donations for our Delivery Program of both lunch meals and food boxes.

This coming Saturday we need 200 sandwiches to go into our Lunch Meal. Could you, your company or church or organization make at least 25? We just need you to make the sandwiches, SAFPAW provides everything else that goes into the meal.

We want to provide a meal for at least 200 folks this coming Saturday. With you on our team we can do just that.

200 sandwiches. Can you make this happen? Email or text us on our resource line.

safpawnashville@gmail.com
615-474-8390

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw

Lori Eslick, SAFPAW Lunch Meals Coordinator

SAFPAW has been pleading for this for so many years!
10/28/2025

SAFPAW has been pleading for this for so many years!

We recently put out a plea for cat carriers that we need for both our Spay/Neuter and our Wellness Transports. And I wan...
10/27/2025

We recently put out a plea for cat carriers that we need for both our Spay/Neuter and our Wellness Transports. And I want to thank and acknowledge both Jessica McNatt and Mike Minster for sending us new carriers! They have already been put to use on our last S/N Transport!

Thank you, Jessica and Mike. You are so very appreciated!

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
safpawnashville@gmail.com

The loss of our food stamp program, SNAP, seems like a reality we are beginning to accept. And it will be devastating. A...
10/26/2025

The loss of our food stamp program, SNAP, seems like a reality we are beginning to accept. And it will be devastating. And while we do not have a voice at this time during this administration, we do have within us the power to do something.

SAFPAW began doing something about hunger when we all realized the devastation that COVID held in store back in March of 2020. The history of hunger is one where those who are already struggling struggle more while those in power do not care. So we have to care with a fierceness.

We are planning food drives and will be meeting this week to bring those plans forward. And we will need everyone to join in. We cannot always stop political battles but we can help our neighbors when those battles threaten their ability to feed their families or themselves.

We can increase our efforts to deliver lunch meals and food boxes so that we do all we can to make sure our neighbors are able to have the food they need.

We just need you. Join us, please. And please ask us all the ways you can get involved.

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
safpawnashville@gmail.com
Lori Eslick, Meals Team Coordinator
safpawmeals@gmail.com

SAFPAW Resource number, please text.
615-474-8390

Meet the newest volunteers and SAFPAW family members! Belle and Mike are amazing. They love our sanctuary cats and our c...
10/16/2025

Meet the newest volunteers and SAFPAW family members! Belle and Mike are amazing. They love our sanctuary cats and our cats adore them. And Mike has been busy helping us paint inside and outside and just making our sanctuary look so much better!

Mike made us this wonderful artwork that we will be hanging on our porch.

People like Belle and Mike are rare. They come into your life and you just want to always keep them close. Please welcome them and say hello if you stop by and they are sitting on the porch or spending time with our cats!

And if you have “odd jobs” around your house or office please let me know and I will put you in touch with Mike. He is amazing!

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
safpawnashville@gmail.com

10/16/2025

We are in need of new or excellent condition cat carriers!

Both for cat owners we are working with and for our Spay/Neuter Transport.

Please, NO “soft” carriers as we cannot use those.

We will pick up within a 48 hour turnaround. Please know this is a critical need!

Laurie Green
Southern Alliance for People & Animal Welfare - Safpaw
safpawnashville@gmail.com
Resource line (please text) 615-474-8390

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1326 Plum Street
Madison, TN
37115

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Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 6:30pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm

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