MOON is a national Member-Owned Organizational Network which enables veterinary referral practices to maintain local governance and decision making while enjoying the benefits of collaboration.  Click on the MOON logo to visit the website.

 

Kiva is an organization that connects people like us with entrepreneurs in the developing world and allows us to help them and their businesses.  By providing micro-loans to these entrepreneurs, we can help them lift themselves out of poverty.  We at DVC currently make 1% of our annual revenues available for lending to businesspeople in developing worlds through Kiva.  Click on the Kiva logo above to visit their website, or email us to ask us about our experience with Kiva and micro-lending.

 

 

 

Mercer Capital is a leading, employee-owned independent financial advisory firm, offering a broad range of consulting and investment banking services, including financial reporting and tax valuation, M&A advisory, fairness and solvency opinions, ESOP and ERISA valuation services, and litigation support.

 

 

Dr. Charlotte Lacroix is a veterinary attorney and CEO of Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc., in Flemington, NJ.  She consults with veterinarians and attorneys nationwide on veterinary legal issues, with a focus on veterinary business transactions, including specialty practices.  Dr. Lacroix advises on selecting and forming business entities; structuring buy-ins, acquisitions and practice mergers; negotiating and facilitating the sale and purchase of veterinary practices; preparing buy-sell documents, employment agreements, commercial leases; mediating disputes, and advising on malpractice cases, as well as, employment and animal law issues.  She also lectures worldwide on these topics and has authored numerous publications.  Dr. Lacroix can be contacted via telephone at (908) 782-4426 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (908) 782-4426      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or via email at  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

 

 

The National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues (NCVEI) has developed this website which offers tools for financial practices, benchmarking, and exchanging other management data. If you've never tried the tools offered on the NCVEI website, you really owe it to yourself and your practice to give these a try.  Especially if you own or manage a small animal practice as the tools are specifically set up to help this type of practice.

 
 

 

This site, run by the Kauffman Foundation has a wealth of resources for the entrepreneur.