About The Vick House Project 
Help Make The Vick House a Dog Shelter
This is a call to all animal lovers.
The Vick House Project is an opportunity to make a good ending to a sad story. For much of this past year, Americans have heard about the tragic tales of mistreatment and abuse to dogs for the purpose of dog fighting.
The Vick House Project is a chance to purchase the property in Surry County, Virginia, that was the center of the dog fighting tragedy. After which it will become a shelter for abused and mistreated dogs.
The project isn’t a political statement or an attempt to point fingers at those involved in the mistreatment of these defenseless dogs. This is a chance to give back to the spirit of the animals that were harmed. It is a chance for animal lovers to contribute to a noble cause. It is a chance to create a happy final chapter to a sordid and tragic tale.
After purchase, we will turn to an organization such as the SPCA to seek assistance in operations.
In the event we fail to purchase the property (should the property be bought before we successfully get the property de-listed), all monies raised will go to the ASPCA. (We will contact donors of contributions larger than $1,000 to discuss specific wishes with the donation, to include returning the donation.)
About Jalie’s Butterflies, A Non-Profit Organization
The Vick House is the first major endeavor for Jalie’s Butterflies.
Jalie’s Butterflies is a non-profit founded in 2007 to address “change” in life. Jalie’s Butterflies’ mission is to reach out to all those involved on the spectrum of life changes.
Jalie’s Butterflies Philosophy
In life, we all go through drastic, difficult experiences that permanently affect us. These changes aren’t just from the loss of a loved one or from disease. They’re from everything we live through. They can be from spiritual bottoming, emotional struggle, or even breaking hearts. It’s traumatic and painful, and makes moments feel like hours and days feel like lifetimes – many times leading to depression. In that situation we tend to go into a cocoon and become shut off from the world around us – spiritually, emotionally, mentally, or physically. But sometimes these painful experiences and these resulting changes can’t be easily lumped into a simple box on a checklist.
Jalie’s Butterflies is about this kind of change and about this kind of help.
Jalie’s Butterflies was founded in the belief that when we suffer the most is when we change the most – and also when we need others the most.
When these changes happen, often just knowing that we aren’t alone can help us through these difficult experiences. However, when we break out of this cocoon we are forever different, and the changes last a lifetime. They are like the metamorphosis of the butterfly.
Jalie’s Butterflies is the belief that giving is greater than receiving.
Our Mission
Jalie’s Butterflies' mission is to help those that are mired in the pain of change, to motivate those who have had their own metamorphosis help others, and to educate those who have yet to fall down in life know that when they do there are others to help them.
Figuring out how to help is the biggest challenge. Jalie’s Butterflies, through its efforts, hopes to help those who are looking for ways to help.
Board of Directors
Michael Morford, Executive Director
Michael Morford has extensive non-profit experience and leadership training. Michael is an Oklahoma native who now resides in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and works for a New York-based investment banking firm.
A former Army Reserve Captain, he was deployed to Kuwait in 2003 as part of the Iraqi Invasion, and went through significant spiritual change in 2006 and realized how difficult these changes can be in life, but also how rewarding they are.
He is a charter founding board member for The Burlington Educational Foundation, an educational non-profit organization. He sits on the Financial Service and Insurance Committee for the Reserve Officers Association. He was twice named Company Grade Officer of the Year by the State of Louisiana’s Reserve Officers Association and Top 10 Finalist for the Reserve Officers Association Company Grade Officer of the Year.
He served in the New Orleans Mayor’s Military Advisor Committee and the Louisiana Governor’s Military Advisory Committee as well as the Tulane University School of Business Educational Alumni Board. In 2001 he was awarded the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award presented by the U.S. Army Chief of Staff.
In college, he was a two-term Director for the Tulane Directions Public Speaking Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on addressing current events affecting the New Orleans community, and volunteered for Tulane’s CACTUS organization (assisting Down syndrome individuals in the community).
In 2004, he started an endowed scholarship for his high school alma mater through the Communities Foundation of Oklahoma.
Other Board Members
• Chris Maupin, Treasurer & Director
• Susan Morford, Director
• Debbie Burch, Director
• Tammy McKinney, Director
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