Carolina Wildlife Care Center – Rick Mantei Charitable Fund

Carolina Wildlife
Care Center

Mission

We are devoted to the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned native wildlife and the preservation of wildlife through education.

Our story begins in 1989 when five Columbia residents recognized a growing need for a local organization dedicated to the care of wildlife in distress. Working in a garage, we received less than 100 patients that first year.

Today we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. In the decades since treating our first fledgling blue jay, we’ve treated and rehabilitated more than 55,000 animals representing 200 species.

Our Involvement

Rick Mantei holds flying events at the local airport in Peachtree City, and extended an invitation to the Midwest Food Bank volunteers to thank them for their hard work. Additionally, Mantei made a donation of $5,000 to the nonprofit to help further its efforts.

Midwest Food Bank distributes over $32 million worth of food to over 2,000 nonprofit organizations each month through its locations across eight states, East Africa and Haiti. The nonprofit is a first responder to the Salvation Army, able to send family food boxes on the road to a disaster site within 24 hours of a request. Each of these boxes has enough food to feed a family of four for four to five days.