From the About Us page of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals:
Founded in 2002, The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals is a non-profit, public-private partnership of over 160 animal rescue groups and shelters working with the City of New York toward the day when no New York City dog or cat of reasonable health and temperament is killed merely because he or she does not have a home.
Since the Mayor’s Alliance was formed in 2002, the publicly-funded Animal Care and Control of New York City has received roughly 40,000 homeless cats and dogs each year — and managed to cut its euthanization rate for cats and dogs by more than half, thanks to its partnership with the Mayor’s Alliance.
According to ShelterWatch.org, NYACC and AWLA now have almost identical live-release rates for homeless dogs (68.8% for AWLA, 68.7% for NYACC.) But AWLA has made no progress on its live-release rate since 2006, so NYACC should surpass AWLA this year as it continues working toward the Mayor's Alliance goal of making NYC a no-kill community by 2015.
Here are links to the Mayor’s Alliance 2009 progress report, and a recent edition of their E-Newsletter.
The essential difference between organizations like those participating in the Mayor’s Alliance in New York (or in similar alliances in San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and elsewhere) and municipally-funded non-profits like AWLA (Arlington), AWLA (Alexandria), and the Montgomery County Humane Society is one of vision, commitment, and effort on behalf of homeless animals.
Open-admission shelters in New York and other forward-looking cities have it, while their counterparts in the affluent suburbs of Washington, DC still do not.
