JULY 2017 26 | FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM {news, updates and events} HEAR HERE The best stories we saw this month about those who give generously and work for a better future. AT 82, HE LITERALLY HERDS CATS (AND SAVES NONPROFIT THOUSANDS) Feral cats of Phoenix, beware. Bob Snow and his network are coming for you. What started as trapping a few wayward cats in Snow’s backyard has turned into a serious all-out cat-herding operation. A network of like-minded residents intent on decimating the population of feral cats has helped turn the tide, which means fewer and fewer cats every year will be forced to meet their fates by way of euthanization. Snow, an 82-year-old Chandler resident, is no cat vigilante. But he is vigilant when it comes to trapping cats and helping others do so. Snow has brought thousands – yes thousands – of cats to the Arizona Animal Welfare League over the last several years, spending approximately $20,000 of his own money every year doing this work. He diligently tracks his trapping work in a spiral-bound notebook. READ MORE ONLINE

JULY 2017 FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM | 27 RAWLING FAMILY DONATES WRIGHT HOUSE TO ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL It will go down as one of the greatest philanthropic acts in Phoenix history. The Rawling family on Thursday donated the David & Gladys Wright House in the Arcadia section of Phoenix to the School of Architecture at Taliesin, which was founded by Frank Lloyd Wright. The pledge of the iconic spiral home to the school represents the largest donation in the architectural institution’s 85 years. The announcement was made on the 150th birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright. The donation by the Rawling family establishes a relationship that will further the school’s mission of educating students to build a more sustainable, open world while fulfilling the potential of the David & Gladys Wright House to have a perpetual life as a world-class center for design. HEAR HERE CONTINUED READ MORE ONLINE