2 weeks in and I need help getting this out there to the right people

It's been a couple of weeks since I shared Poe's Promise with you all and I wanted to give a quick update on where things are at after the website "launched".

Here’s my original post for anyone curious.

I've reached out to every emergency veterinary hospital and blood bank I could find in Ohio so far. At the time of writing this, that's around 20 locations across 5 organizations between Cleveland and Cincinnati. Out of all of those emails, contact forms, voicemails, I've received 1 reply in total.

The organization that responded was incredibly kind and thoughtful when responding, they explained they themselves are a rather larger nationwide organization and would not be able to participate due to their own internal processes that already serve their organization well. I respect that decision on their end, the entire purpose of this is not to cause additional complexity for either side of this potential user base, pet parents and volunteer staff alike.

I replied with what I hope will be a good potential compromise so at the very least I can add their locations to the website without inventory data and directing users to call them for real-time inventory. Hopefully they will get back to me and see the value in that by cutting out google searches that may leave out results.

To be clear, I'm not sharing this to complain or place blame on anyone or any organization. Emergency hospitals like this are busy around the clock doing life-saving work, something I've unfortunately witnessed by all my time sitting at them recently. I also understand that a random email or voicemail from a stranger about a community project is going to sound immediately suspicious and not be the first thing on anyone's priority list.

I do want to share this however, because it shows exactly why I need help.

I'm one person. I built this platform in my own time, I pay for it out of my own pocket, and I'm reaching out to emergency vets and blood banks on my own with no idea if I'm actually in touch with everyone I can be. I can only do so much myself. What I've found is that I can't get this in front of the right people fast enough to make a difference before the next family finds themselves in the situation we were in with Poe.

So I'm asking, if you know anyone who works at an emergency veterinary clinic or companion animal blood bank in the state of Ohio, vet techs, practice managers, front desk coordinator, anyone at all, please share this post or send them the website directly. You don't need to sell them on it, this isn't intended to be a product. Just getting the link in front of someone who works in this space is enough.

Poe's Promise is free, no ads, no contracts, no cost to anyone other than myself and potentially a few minutes of a staff members time a day. It exists to be a helpful resource for pet parents and vets alike and to spread awareness of the feline blood shortage we're experiencing as a country and how pet parents can donate blood to help.