Not exact matches
These
organizations have similar requirements for therapy dog candidates: be friendly with
other dogs (several therapy dogs may be present during visitations at the same facilities), be at least 1 year old, have lived with the owner for at least 6 months, consistently perform basic obedience skills, remain calm when being handled (petted,
grabbed, hugged, etc.)
by different people, and tolerate the sights, smells sounds, and equipment found in nursing home and hospital settings (wheelchairs, walkers, I - V poles, etc.).
Four hundred or so painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, and
other creatives, each hoping to
grab one of just 57 available rewards: a space to live and work in a sparkling new building made possible — and affordable —
by Artspace, a wildly successful national
organization.
The real estate «wanna - be-a-profession / should - be-a-profession» is governed
by overseeing umbrella
organizations vs the ungoverned reality of most
other every - day, free - for - all for - profit ventures that fit into the category of «wild - west -
grab - what - we - can - when - we - can» and «hope - we - don't - get - caught - with - our hands - too - deep - in - the - public - cookie - jar - of - public - ignorance» ventures that are not subject to oversight
by said oversight umbrella holders, who would take their dollars, as CREA, OREA / RECO (Ontario) et al do, in trade for supposed guidance away from from the vagaries of the wild - west show artists out there.