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May 31, 2023

Natasha’s Note | June 2023

2023 has been an exciting year for Pawsperity. As you may know, we moved into our brand-new, three times larger facility in January, two doors down from our old building. Shortly after, we launched two new pet-related businesses under the same roof (a market rate grooming salon and a doggie…

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Successes

March 3, 2023

Family Man: Ronnie

Ronnie’s family is a big part of his life. He is a brother to five sisters and father of five daughters. Someday, with the skills he’s developed at Pawsperity, he hopes to be the patriarch of his own family business.

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December 29, 2022

Startland News: Pawsitive impacts: Social venture aims to break generational poverty through pet grooming

In 2018, Ashley Stillings was living in Hope House, a homeless shelter in Lee’s Summit, with her three children.

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December 21, 2022

Keeping Promises

When 32-year-old Ashley was a little girl, her parents divorced. At just 7 years old, she made a promise to herself to someday have her own family that would always be together. More than two decades later, she found herself in a devastating situation.

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November 8, 2022

Groomer to Groomer: Pawsperity, Unleashing Human Potential

In the Kansas City, Missouri area, like many places all over the country, there is a lot of generational poverty. Children are born into it and that is all they ever know.

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October 10, 2022

Dogs as Healers

Annie knew she was willing to do what it took to work with dogs, her lifelong dream. Just like many other students, the power of the human-animal bond helped Annie graduate from Pawsperity’s extensive grooming program.

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October 2, 2022

We are Pawsperity

This video introduces Pawsperity, formerly known as The Grooming Project.

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September 1, 2022

Andis Creator Series | Pawsperity

Andis Creator Series | Pawsperity Pawsperity, an innovative Kansas City-based non-profit organization that harnesses the art of pet grooming to help break the cycle of poverty for struggling parents with nowhere to turn.

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Customers

December 13, 2021

Five Tips for Preparing Your Dog for a Visit to the Groomer

At Pawsperity, we see many dogs every day, all with their own unique temperaments and levels of tolerance for being bathed and groomed. Review our top five tips to set your pet up for grooming success.

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Nonprofit

November 17, 2021

Welcome to the Country’s Only Nonprofit Pet Grooming School

Natasha Herdman started Empowering the Parent to Empower the Child (EPEC) in 2016 with a mission to help Kansas City children stuck in the cycle of generational poverty. The Grooming Project (which would go on to become Pawsperity) was EPEC’s first program.

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Natasha’s Note | June 2023

Family Man: Ronnie

Startland News: Pawsitive impacts: Social venture aims to break generational poverty through pet grooming

Keeping Promises

Groomer to Groomer: Pawsperity, Unleashing Human Potential

Dogs as Healers

We are Pawsperity

Andis Creator Series | Pawsperity

Five Tips for Preparing Your Dog for a Visit to the Groomer

Welcome to the Country’s Only Nonprofit Pet Grooming School

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