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BCFS Health and Human Services (formerly Baptist Child and Family Services) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization based in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in emergency shelter, foster care, and adoption. It was founded as an orphanage for Hispanic children in 1944.
A 2009 report by the Humane Society of the United States entitled "Animal Sheltering Trends in the U.S." found that on average communities spend $8.00 per capita on animal shelters. [ 8 ] In November 2010 an investigation by Eyewitness News entitled "Allegations of neglect at city animal shelter" [ 9 ] claimed that care and exercise were being ...
Market Square is the site of Cinco de Mayo in central San Antonio and many other fiestas throughout the year. [2] The "El Mercado" building was built as a Works Progress Administration project during 1938-1939 after the existing municipal market house (known as the Giles building) was torn down. The new building was originally named the ...
The San Antonio Market is one of 20 large military medical markets that directly report to the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The Market comprises all military medical facilities in the San Antonio, Texas area, to include Brooke Army Medical Center, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, 10 standalone military treatment facilities, and over 100 specialty services—staffed by Army, Air Force ...
The Conservation Society of San Antonio (legally incorporated as the San Antonio Conservation Society) is located in the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas. Founding members were Emily Edwards , who became the organization's first president, and Rena Maverick Green .
PAWS maintains three sanctuaries for captive wildlife—a 30 acre sanctuary in Galt, California, the 100-acre (0.40 km 2) Amanda Blake Wildlife Refuge in Herald, California and a third, Ark 2000, which comprises 2,300 acres (9.3 km 2) in San Andreas, California. The Galt sanctuary was the first in the United States equipped to care for elephants.
The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, a pivotal event of the Texas Revolution in which American folk heroes James Bowie and Davy Crockett were killed. [4]
The Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation was created in January 2010 to take over operation of the shelter from the town of Southampton, New York, which had to stop funding it for budgetary reasons. Susan Allen, daughter of Herbert Allen , co-founder of investment bank Allen & Co. , was chairwoman.