$15,016,668 Million Raised
$17.5 Million Goal
We have raised $15,016,668 million – but we still need your help! Together we will save lives, love them all, and Finish The Vision.
Capital Campaign
Finish the Vision
Our new Soderberg Campus is now open and operating from 2620 Worth Avenue, Englewood, FL.
Our campus is thriving, and we’re so close to reaching our capital goal! Your support can help us bridge the final gap and minimize financing costs. Plus, there are still exciting naming opportunities available. Join us in making a meaningful impact!
Put Your Name On It
A naming opportunity on our campus is far more than a name on a building—it is a lasting promise made visible. It is a testament to your commitment to compassion, hope, and the belief that every animal deserves a second chance. Long after today’s challenges have been overcome and today’s animals have found loving homes, your legacy will continue to inspire all who walk through our doors.
Every frightened animal that finds safety, every life restored through healing, and every joyful adoption into a forever home will reflect the impact of your generosity. Your name will forever be woven into the story of transformation, ensuring that your compassion continues to change lives for generations to come.
Naming Opportunities
Community Center
$2.5 million
Where Compassion Connects a Community.
The Community Center is the heart of the Suncoast Humane Society campus—a welcoming space where people and animals come together to build stronger, healthier, and more compassionate communities.
Here, families facing hardship can receive pet food assistance that helps keep beloved pets in their homes. Children discover empathy and responsible pet care through engaging humane education programs. Prospective adopters take the first steps toward meeting their newest family member, while visitors can shop for gifts and pet essentials that directly support lifesaving work. The Community Center also provides flexible gathering space for meetings, celebrations, and community events, while offering compassionate end-of-life services that honor the extraordinary bond between people and their pets.
A naming opportunity for the Community Center is an investment in more than a building—it is an investment in every connection, every act of kindness, and every life touched within its walls. Your name will forever represent a place where hope is shared, families are supported, and the human-animal bond is celebrated each and every day.
By naming the Community Center, you create a legacy that welcomes every visitor with compassion and ensures this place remains a cornerstone of hope, education, and community for generations to come.
Intake Center
$750,000
Every Journey Begins Here.
The Intake Center is where every animal’s journey with Suncoast Humane Society begins. It is the first place a frightened stray finds safety, where an injured pet receives compassionate care, and where neglected or abandoned animals take their first steps toward healing and hope.
For many, these doors mark the end of fear and uncertainty—and the beginning of a new life filled with kindness, comfort, and possibility. Every rescue that arrives, every family surrender seeking help, and every transfer from a partner organization starts here.
By naming the Intake Center, you become part of every first chapter written within these walls. Your legacy will be forever connected to the moment an animal is welcomed with compassion instead of fear, care instead of uncertainty, and hope instead of despair.
Your generosity ensures that every new beginning starts with dignity, compassion, and the promise of a brighter future.
The Suncoast Humane Society Campus at a Glance:
Our campus is designed to support the emotional health that is paramount to happy and healthy pets.
The campus was built on 11.5 acres of foliage-dense land that tortoises and scrub jays call home, to provide an innovative shelter, a preventative veterinary clinic and a community empowerment center that seamlessly blends into the natural environment. Given the property’s natural and unique beauty, the landscaping was given as much importance as the buildings.
Innovative Shelter
Cats lounge in living spaces with fresh air and butterfly gardens. They get to stretch out, climb and watch wildlife outside their safe havens. Dog patios allow for indoor and outdoor access, with lots of fresh air and sunshine. There is an inground swimming pool, play yards and walking trails.
Veterinary Clinic
The clinic provides high quality, low cost preventive services, such as vaccinations, heartworm/flea and tick preventatives, and spay/neuter surgeries, to keep pets and our community healthy.
Community Empowerment Center
The Community Center is the heart of our campus—a welcoming place where people come together to care for and celebrate their love of animals. Families in need can access pet food assistance, prospective adopters can meet their future companions, children can participate in humane education programs, and visitors can shop for pet supplies and gifts. The center also offers rentable meeting and event space while providing compassionate end-of-life services to help families honor the cherished bonds they share with their pets.
Why did Suncoast Humane Society need a new campus?
Animal welfare has evolved to where the animal’s emotional health is considered as paramount as its physical health. We must do better than to simply kennel and contain those who are homeless and helpless. The animals who come to us did nothing wrong; the humans failed them. While the nation was waking up to our lifesaving and life-affirming obligation, Suncoast Humane Society’s building deteriorated and became outdated.
- The kennels were dark, loud and scary.
- The cats had no sunlight.
- There was little space for play and exercise.
- The air was stagnant.
- The floors were beyond repair and the building was in structural failure.
Despite our best efforts to create an enriched environment, the condition and building layout limited our staff and volunteers’ ability to provide a healthy and happy space for our animals. Even with significant structure improvements, the building’s limitations prohibited Suncoast Humane Society from providing a high standard of care.
Today, there are hundreds of dogs and cats in our community who need help. They are hungry. They are homeless, and without us, they are hopeless. These needs are very real, and all part of the reason Suncoast Humane Society exists:
- There are families struggling with food insecurities who need our Community Pet Food Bank to be able to keep their pet with them and out of the shelters.
- There are children with learning disabilities counting on our Therapy pets to spark their confidence and subsequently increase their skills.
- There is a pet whose guardian passed away with no one to take them in.
While our staff and volunteers take care of those in need today, we cannot forget how critical it is for us to look to the immediate future. Our prior facility was substandard. Space was cramped and poorly laid out. The prior design of kennels was traumatic for most of the pets. The animals deserve better. The community deserves better.
Together, we can build a future where dogs get to be dogs, cats get to be cats, and together, we love and protect them all.
Reducing Our Carbon Paw Print
We share this environment and our individual health is reliant on our collective health.
We’ve created an environmentally-conscious build, with exacting attention given to the property, our vision and our conviction to not only protect the pets we will tend to, but to protect the animals who call this land home.
Gopher Tortoise burrows preserved
Scrub Jay territory preserved
Natural vegetation preserved
Buildings designed to preserve maximum number of existing trees and ground cover
Buildings oriented to maximize prevailing summer winds and provide maximum shade
Wet retention to minimize impact on property and located to maximize drainage efficiency due to slope of the land
Project Budget:
Suncoast Humane Society selected a team of professionals, all with the commitment to ensure the construction is the best quality with the least life cycle cost, using the value engineering construction approach.
Value engineering construction is a calculated, systematic approach to ensuring that the necessary functions of the project are created with the lowest cost materials and components. Value engineering construction prioritizes cost management, while not effecting the quality of the project.
Project Construction Costs: $17,500,000, including:
Brick-and-mortar: Using Value engineering construction approach, Dog Shelter, Outdoor Dog Runs and Pools, Cat House with Pods, Clinic, Community Center and Administrative Building.
Additional Project Costs:
Architectural & Landscape Design, Walking Trails, Butterfly Gardens, Engineering & Permit Fees
Equipment, Furniture & Fixtures (Dog and Cat Kenneling, Surgical Suite, Radiology)
Contingencies
Net-zero/solar
1 year’s worth of annual operating costs
Who Built Our Future:
Architect & Interior Design
General Contracting
Commercial Construction Project Management
Civil Engineering
Landscape Architect
Mechanical, Structural, & Electrical Engineering
Acoustical Engineering